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Over 1,500 Nepali youths stranded in Jammu and Kashmir
Over 1,500 Nepali youth, most of them daily wage earners, are stranded in India's Jammu and Kashmir state due to the floods and landslides.
Over 300 of them are from Saptari district alone on the Nepal-India border.
Grief and gloom have…
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Harsh Vardhan in J&K to oversee medical relief efforts
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is visiting Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of medical relief operations in the flood-hit state.
Officials said that the Health Minister will reach Jammu today and oversee the on site relief…
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14 children found dead in Srinagar hospital
As the flood waters receded in Kashmir, authorities on Saturday said that 14 children were found dead at a hospital here. State government officials confirmed 29 deaths have taken place in the Kashmir Vally alone.
Officials on…
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CENTRE RELEASES RS 865 CR TO JK
Union Finance Ministry has released in advance the installment of Rs 865.29 Crore due in October 2014 to Government of Jammu and Kashmir to deal with unprecedented situation of flood and natural calamity
The Ministry released installments…
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Omar announces relief package for flood sufferers
SRINAGAR: Getting its act together after being initially numbed by last week's devastating floods, Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday announced financial and other assistance to those hit by the disaster, including assistance of Rs 100…
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SC seeks Centre’s report on J-K floods
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said "a calamity and disaster" as huge as the one witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir floods "deserves national response" and asked the Centre to apprise it on Monday on the urgent steps undertaken to…
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Floods in J-K worst in 109 years: Rajnath
NEW DELHI: Ignoring attempts by some separatists to disrupt relief operations in Kashmir Valley, government on Friday asserted that its main focus was on providing succour to people affected by the worst-ever floods in 109 years.
"We have…
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Sex workers raise fund for Kashmir flood victims
AHMEDNAGAR (Maha): Commercial sex workers of Ahmednagar District in Maharashtra have raised funds to help flood-hit victims of Jammu and Kashmir. The workers have contributed Rs 10,321 to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund and handed over the…
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Indian Army rescued 75000 people from J&K
On the Eleventh day of the rescue operation ‘Operation Megh Rahat’ the Army has intensified its rescue efforts. While more than 220 columns remain dedicated for the rescue efforts the number of people rescued by the Army has…
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Thousands throng IAF base for safe passage out of Valley
Srinagar: Carrying bags and some other belongings, thousands of people from the state have thronged the area outside the IAF base here in anticipation of being airlifted out of the flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley.
Some of them are…
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