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Worst floods in 109 years, will reach out to all: Omar Abdullah
India | Sep 10, 2014, 07:09 AM ISTSrinagar: Describing the current floods in the state as the worst in 109 years, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the government will reach out to all people for rescuing them and then
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Nearly 43,000 people rescued in J-K, 4 lakh still stranded
India | Sep 09, 2014, 06:42 PM ISTSrinagar: About four lakh people were still stranded and desperate for help today in flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley where heavy rains have eased to help scale up the massive multi-agency rescue and relief efforts in which
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India gears up for mock tsunami drill on Sep 9 and 10
India | Sep 08, 2014, 11:51 AM ISTHyderabad: India, along with 23 other countries, is participating in a major Indian Ocean-wide mock tsunami drill on September 9 and 10 that is aimed at testing the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
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Air lifting of marooned people likely to begin tomorrow: Omar
India | Sep 06, 2014, 08:49 PM ISTJammu: Faced with the worst floods in Jammu and Kashmir in half a century, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said air-lifting of marooned people may begin tomorrow if weather improves even as South Kashmir remains
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Thousands affected as flood situation worsens in Bihar
India | Aug 16, 2014, 12:00 PM ISTPatna: The flood situation in Bihar worsened on Saturday with a river breaching its embankment in Darbhanga district and affecting thousands, officials said.Kamala Balan river, swelled by the flood waters of its tributaries, breached the
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Odisha floods kill 35, affect 1.8 million
India | Aug 08, 2014, 08:15 AM ISTBhubaneswar: The floods triggered by heavy rains in the past week have affected nearly 1.8 million people in Odisha with the death toll rising to 35, an official said Thursday.Eight more deaths were reported from
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C-130J Hercules makes tricky night landing in Nepal
India | Aug 05, 2014, 08:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Indian Air Force deployed its C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft to transport a team of geologists and disaster management officials to Nepal for clearing the landslide in a river there which is
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Flood threat in Kosi river abates
India | Aug 05, 2014, 07:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: The threat of devastating flood in Kosi river was put on hold after the Government of Nepal on Monday announced that it will not conduct any blast in the Bhote Kosi to clear
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Pune landslide death toll soars to 134
India | Aug 05, 2014, 06:48 AM ISTPune: The death toll in Maharashtra's worst-ever landslide in Pune district's Malin village climbed to 134 on Monday with the majority of the victims being women."By this evening, we have recovered 134 bodies, including 64
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Watch in pics the devastation caused by landslide in Pune
India | Aug 01, 2014, 10:53 AM ISTNew Delhi: The landslide that hit early Wednesday morning killed more than a dozen and possibly trapping many more people under debris. Homes stand damaged as rescuers work at the site of a landslide in
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Maharashtra CM visits landslide site
India | Jul 30, 2014, 11:36 PM ISTPune: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan visited the site of landslide at Malin village in Ambegaon tehsil of Pune district this evening and reviewed the rescue operation undertaken by NDRF and other agencies. Chavan, accompanied
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Beas tragedy: Water level increased, search temporarily hit
India | Jun 16, 2014, 01:20 PM ISTMandi, Himachal Pradesh: The search operation to locate 16 missing students from Hyderabad and a tour operator was Monday temporarily hit by sudden increase in water level in the mighty Beas river here, officials said.They,
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Body of sixth Beas victim brought to Hyderabad
India | Jun 12, 2014, 11:31 PM ISTHyderabad: The body of one more victim of the Beas river tragedy in Himachal Pradesh reached Hyderabad while rescue teams Thursday fished out two more bodies and continued search for 16 missing students.The body of
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Beas river tragedy: Massive search on to find 19 missing students
India | Jun 11, 2014, 12:34 PM ISTMandi, Himachal Pradesh: A massive search operation to locate the remaining 19 of the 24 students and a tour operator who went missing after strong currents of Beas river washed them away near Mandi town
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Five more bodies recovered from troubled Assam districts
India | May 07, 2014, 11:11 AM ISTBhangarpar, Assam: Five more bodies were found this morning from two trouble-torn districts of Assam, taking the toll in the violence unleashed by ultras to 41. The bodies, which were recovered from Beki river that
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Post-Uttarakhand ops, NDRF gets 70-acre land for base in state
India | Dec 01, 2013, 09:23 AM ISTNew Delhi: To combat natural and man-made calamities effectively, NDRF has acquired about 70 acres of land in Uttarakhand for a new battalion base even as it is set to go shopping for a host
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AP rain fury: Toll mounts to 42, over 96,506 evacuated
India | Oct 28, 2013, 08:33 AM ISTHyderabad: Incessant rains continued to wreak havoc in Andhra Pradesh yesterday, leaving 42 people dead, after which authorities shifted about a lakh of people to safer places so far.Rains lashing the state for the last
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NDRF carries out rescue work in flood-hit Ferozepur
India | Aug 21, 2013, 07:15 AM ISTFerozepur, Punjab: Thirtyfive members of National Disaster Relief Force have been called in to assist residents of nearly 60 villages inundated by flood water from Satluj in Ferozepur Fazilka border areas. Hundreds of farmers have
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Uttarakhand: NDRF, ITBP rescue 32,772 people
India | Jun 24, 2013, 09:57 PM ISTNew Delhi, June 24: National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel have so far rescued 32,772 people from different areas of Uttarakhand following landslides and floods, an official said Monday.Of the
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Uttarakhand: Looters in saffron robes caught with over Rs 1 cr stolen cash, jewellery
India | Jun 26, 2013, 06:55 AM ISTDehradun, Jun 25: ITBP and National Disaster Reponse Force have arrested several babas (religious men) while evacuating them from Kedarnath over the past two days. They were carrying bagfuls of stolen jewellery and cash, some