J-K gears up for lurking health emergency, 2 lakh people rescued
SRINAGAR: With the threat of disease outbreak lurking in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, efforts have been initiated on a war-footing to provide medical staff and medicines even as rescue operations were slightly hampered on Sunday due to…
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‘Infrastructure damage in J-K floods could touch Rs 6K crore’
Jammu and Kashmir has suffered massive damage to its public infrastructure due to the worst floods it has faced in more than a century and officials say that the State would need at least Rs 5,000 crore to rebuild the same.
Even a…
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Forces lose arms, ammunition in floods
SRINAGAR: When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir.
Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost…
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Rains briefly hit relief operations, another 60,000 evacuated
SRINAGAR: Relief operations in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir were briefly hampered this morning due to rains even as the Armed forces and NDRF rescued another 60,000 people trapped in flood waters in Kashmir Valley.
Over one lakh people are…
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To restore calm, Armed Police from Jammu airlifted to Valley
SRINAGAR: In the wake of attacks on rescue teams of NDRF and army, two battalions of Armed Police have been airlifted from Jammu to flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley to maintain law and order.
A week after floods battered Srinagar, policemen are…
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Jammu based employees to meet Div Com today; defy CS’s order
JAMMU: Notwithstanding the Chief Secretary's order which directs all the state government employee to resume their duties at Srinagar, the Jammu based employees of the secretariat and other departments have rubbished such instructions.
They…
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Omar snubs rumour mongers
SRINAGAR: Asserting that rescue and relief operations are being intensified, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday hit out at rumour mongers for wrongly spreading that rescue operations were focused only on outsiders and…
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Don’t celebrate my b’day, instead help in J-K relief work: Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to friends and well-wishers not to celebrate his birthday and instead dedicate time and resources towards relief work in this hour of need for flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir.…
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Swamy demands President’s rule in JK
NEW DELHI: Making a point about holding Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir amid flooding and ongoing rescue operations, the BJP's senior leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday demanded that President's rule should be imposed in the State…
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