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Kashmir relief: AAP MLAs to donate Rs.20 lakh each
New Delhi : All the AAP legislators will donate Rs.20 lakh each from their MLA funds for relief work in Jammu and Kashmir following the devastating floods, party chief Arvind Kejriwal said Friday.
"All AAP MLAs to donate Rs.20 lakh each…
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Doctors, medicines rushed to Srinagar
New Delhi : A 30-member team of doctors, including pediatricians and gynaecologists, 100 tonnes of medicines and water purifiers have been rushed to flood ravaged Srinagar, union health ministry said here Friday.
The ministry said they…
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Marine commandos to establish waterways in Srinagar
Srinagar: Navy's elite Marine Commandos will establish a waterway in the city to enable faster movement of people stuck in low-lying areas to higher grounds.
The Navy has been given the task to establish a waterway in Srinagar to enable…
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J&K floods: Desperate hunt for the missing in submerged colonies
Mehjoornagar: A group of locals is keenly looking for somebody in a flooded colony of Mehjoornagar in uptown area of Srinagar.
They are searching for a Sikh woman who is believed to have drowned during the water surge five days ago. A…
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J&K Govt wakes up, opens account for flood relief
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has opened a bank account for receiving donations for the flood hit victims in the State under the title of ‘Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund, J&K’.
Interested people of the country are requested to…
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Armed forces rescue over 1.10 lakh people in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: The armed forces have rescued over 1.10 lakh people in relief operations in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir where more than 30,000 troops have been deployed along with 84 helicopters and transport aircraft of the Air Force.
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Flood waters receding, lakhs still await help
SRINAGAR: Flood waters receded further in Kashmir Valley on Thursday enabling rescue teams to evacuate another 2,000 stranded people and provide crucial supplies for people desperately waiting for help in submerged areas.
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Home Secy rushes to Srinagar for rescue ops
NEW DELHI: In the wake of allegations of tardy pace in rescue and relief measures, Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami on Thursday rushed to Srinagar to coordinate these operations in Jammu and Kashmir, hit by massive floods.
Goswami left for…
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Journalist Shafat Siddiqui is no more
SRINAGAR : In a saddening development, senior photo-journalist Shafat Siddiqui has died in the floods that swept the Valley on Sunday.
Shafat, working with Hindi daily Jagran, was covering the flood situation near Civil Secretariat on…
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“I had no government”: Omar
SRINAGAR: "I had no government as the seat of the establishment was wiped out by the worst floods in over a century," Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday , recalling the nightmare of the disaster that hit his…
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