Flash Floods
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Lake burst triggers flash floods in Kargil; evacuation on
India | May 07, 2015, 04:32 PM ISTSrinagar: An artificial lake in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir burst this morning and caused flash floods in the area, prompting authorities to launch an evacuation operation in the affected villages, officials said. “The
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Alert sounded as River Sindh swells following cloudbursts
India | Sep 06, 2014, 01:41 PM ISTSrinagar: Authorities on Saturday sounded a red alert asking people living close to River Sindh in central Kashmir to move to safer places following cloudbursts and flash floods in the higher reaches triggered by incessant
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President mourns loss of lives in floods in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
India | Aug 19, 2014, 01:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday condoled the loss of lives in floods in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and expressed the hope that state governments would be working towards relief and rehabilitation of the affected
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Flash floods kill two in Odisha
India | Aug 22, 2013, 12:13 PM ISTBhubaneswar: Flash floods triggered by heavy rain over the past four days have killed two people in Odisha, and left about 1,000 people displaced, an official said Thursday.The northern parts of the state received heavy
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Flash floods cause minor damage to fencing along IB in Jammu
India | Jul 24, 2013, 02:01 PM ISTJammu, July 24: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have caused minor damage to a section of the fencing along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu frontier belt. “A portion of border fencing in riverine belts
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Relief operations resume in Uttarakhand as skies clear up
India | Jul 09, 2013, 08:18 PM ISTDehradun, July 9: Relief operations resumed in disaster-hit Uttarakhand on Tuesday as the weather cleared up after three days even as most of the personnel engaged in clearing debris and cremating bodies at Kedarnath were
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Uttarakhand: Fresh rain hinders relief work in remote
India | Jul 07, 2013, 06:10 PM ISTDehradun, July 7: Fresh spell of rains on Sunday halted helicopter operations to ferry rations to remote Uttarakhand districts reeling under shortage of foodgrains even as wet weather put brakes on the task of cremation
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List of missing persons in Uttarkhand and Himachal
India | Jun 21, 2013, 02:08 PM ISTNew Delhi: Following is the list of 231 people missing after the flash floods in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. The list has been released by National Disaster Response Force or NDRF.Army have rescued 14,000 people
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Uttarakhand rain toll rises to 13
India | Jun 17, 2013, 03:40 PM ISTDehradun, June 17: Five more bodies were recovered on Monday from near the Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath, taking the toll in the torrential rains lashing Uttarakhand to 13 even as the chardham yatra remained suspended
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Flash floods displace hundreds in Odisha
India | Nov 06, 2012, 03:42 PM ISTBhubaneswar, November 6: Flash floods triggered by incessant rains have killed one person, displaced hundreds of people and damaged paddy crops in Odisha, an official said on Tuesday.Although Cyclone Nilam in the Bay of Bengal
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Villager washed away in J-K flash floods
India | Aug 22, 2012, 09:02 PM ISTJammu, Aug 22: A villager was today washed away in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.50-year-old Anwar Hussain was swept away by the flash floods in
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One killed, nine feared washed away in flash floods in HP
India | Jul 08, 2012, 09:45 AM ISTShimla, Jul 8: One person was killed while nine others were feared washed away in flash floods triggered by heavy rains at a village in Paonta Sahib area of Sirmaur District.Four vehicles, carrying members of
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Over 800 People Killed, Lakhs Affected By Flash Floods In Pak
World | Jul 31, 2010, 07:08 PM ISTMore than 800 people have died and at least one million affected by flash floods triggered by the worst monsoon rains in Pakistan in eight decades, officials and the UN said on Saturday. The death