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Crops worth Rs.3,675 crore damaged in Kashmir floods
India | Sep 24, 2014, 04:08 PM ISTSrinagar: Crops worth Rs.3,675 crore have been damaged by floods in the Kashmir valley, officials said here Wednesday.Of the three lakh hectares crop area in Kashmir division, around 1.35 lakh hectares have been fully damaged
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Indian teenager collects 2 lakhs for Kashmir flood victims in Kuwait
India | Sep 23, 2014, 06:47 PM ISTDubai: As a humanitarian act and sense of brotherhood for the victims of Kashmir floods, an Indian student in Kuwait has collected over Rs 2 lakh from people.D R Pratyusha collected 1000.250 dinars for making
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Over two lakh structures damaged in floods: Omar govt tells HC
India | Sep 22, 2014, 10:47 PM ISTSrinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government today said more than two lakh structures were damaged, which included 20,000 houses totally destroyed, in the worst floods in the state in more than a century."Approximately 2,34,516 structures
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Kashmir floods: 70 army installations, LoC posts relocated
India | Sep 22, 2014, 04:01 PM ISTSrinagar: Seventy Army installations, including camps, bunkers and posts, have been hit by the devastating floods in Kashmir Valley but security forces have swiftly relocated the damaged and washed out posts to plug the gaps
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Gadkari, Jitendra to conduct aerial survey in Kashmir
India | Sep 21, 2014, 05:27 PM ISTJammu: Union Ministers Nitin Gadari and Jitendra Singh will tomorrow take an aerial survey of various roads damaged in recent floods in valley in Jammu and Kashmir.Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Gadkari and Minister
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Over 1200 school buildings damaged in Jammu
India | Sep 20, 2014, 02:13 PM ISTJammu: The floods in J-K have dealt a severe blow to the educational infrastructure with 1,276 government schools damaged across Jammu and the administration has now embarked on an urgent “repair and relocate” plan so
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10-yr-old returns to marooned house to retrieve school bag
India | Sep 20, 2014, 01:55 PM ISTSrinagar: Days after he was airlifted along with his family to safety, ten-year-old Taukeer Ahmed was today on a rescue boat returning to his marooned house in Raj Bagh locality to retrieve his most loved
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Four militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir
India | Sep 20, 2014, 01:47 PM ISTSrinagar: Four militants were killed Saturday by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district along the Line of Control (LoC), police said.Heavily armed militants were surrounded by the soldiers near the LoC in
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LeT planning a major mission in Kashmir
India | Sep 20, 2014, 11:57 AM ISTSrinagar: Kashmir, a flood stricken state is under more threat than was anticipated. Lashkar – e- Taiba, one of the largest terrorist outfit of South Asia is planning a major mission in Kashmir, according to
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Kashmir floods: Death toll climbs to 280
India | Dec 27, 2014, 11:06 AM ISTJammu: The number of deaths due to the floods in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 280, an official said.At least 203 people have died in Jammu region and 77 in the Kashmir Valley. The
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Floods wipe out crops in Jammu, losses pegged at Rs 365 cr
India | Sep 19, 2014, 05:10 PM ISTJammu: As the flood waters recede, a grim picture emerges from the agriculture sector in Jammu where the deluge has washed away crops worth Rs 365 crore and 13,000 hectares of cultivable land.While the Maize
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Kashmir floods: Death toll climbs to 277
India | Sep 19, 2014, 04:31 PM ISTSrinagar: The death toll due to the floods in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 277 even as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today expressed hope that the toll would not be as high as feared
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Ministers reach out to flood-hit populace of Kashmir Valley
National | Sep 18, 2014, 02:32 PM ISTSrinagar/Jammu: As the Omar Abdullah government gears up to rehabilitate people in flood-battered Kashmir Valley, state ministers have begun to lead the administration from the front and are reaching out to the affected.A team of
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Quakes hit J&K's Bhaderwah hills
India | Sep 17, 2014, 11:52 PM ISTBhaderwah (J&K): Mild tremors in quick succession jolted Bhaderwah belt of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir tonight.The quakes measuring 4.3 and 3.7 on the Richter scale shook Bhaderwah belt at 10.33 PM and 10.40
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3 national highways leading to Kashmir Valley opened
India | Sep 17, 2014, 11:49 PM ISTSrinagar: The life in flood-hit Kashmir region is limping back to normal as vehicular traffic to the Valley has been restored through three national highways facilitating the resumption of supplies at a massive scale. The
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Kashmir floods: Bridges restored by army engineers connect lakhs of people
India | Sep 17, 2014, 05:42 PM ISTJammu: After restoring the national highway between flood ravaged Srinagar and Jammu, Army Engineers have successfully constructed four major bridges in Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts in a big relief to lakhs of people residing
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Modi tells Abbott his visit touched heart of every Indian
India | Sep 16, 2014, 08:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday had a telephonic conversation with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and told him that his recent visit to India touched the heart of every Indian.A PMO statement said
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Bazaz's Kashmir premonition came true hours later
India | Sep 16, 2014, 06:14 PM ISTSrinagar: Tawheed Bazaz, 35, a resident of this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, had a premonition that the flood waters which had inundated the city centre, Lal Chowk, early last Sunday, would also reach their
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Hostility meets NDRF initially in flood-hit Kashmir
India | Sep 16, 2014, 06:12 PM ISTSrinagar: When NDRF personnel were rushed in here 12 days back, topmost on their minds was to rescue people marooned in flood waters but they had no idea that they will face hostility from those
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Omar reviews rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts in Kashmir
India | Sep 16, 2014, 06:53 AM ISTJammu: Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday held a high-level meeting of officers of the civil and police administration to review the rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts in Kashmir region caused due