India and Pakistan floods: Death toll rises
Pakistani soldiers use an inflatable boat to rescue flood-affected residents from a village at Jalalpur Bhattian in the Hafizabad district in Punjab province on September 8, 2014. The death toll from...
View ArticleFloodwaters destroy maize, paddy crops in thousands of acres
For two days, Makwal village and its surrounding areas, 27 km west of Jammu, were ravaged by the floodwaters after the Tawi breached its embankment and flowed into villages, mostly inhabited by poor...
View ArticleLakhs of marooned people in dire need of food, water
Over 76,500 rescued as water levels recede in most parts of Kashmir Over 76,500 people have been rescued in Jammu and Kashmir and relief efforts were on in the flood-hit parts of the state where thousands
View ArticleJammu & Kashmir government ignored deluge of flood warning
A flood hitting Srinagar would leave "most parts of the city submerged", a senior official of the department had told a local daily. The report was uncannily spoton. A deluge of warnings on J&K...
View ArticleDisplacement continues to haunt West Pakistan refugees in Jammu
Flood-hit families with mud houses near the Tawi fear they will be denied compensation Displacement continues to haunt octogenarian Beero Devi who, along with her family, has now taken shelter in a
View ArticleBan all sorts of construction on Tawi river: Sharma
The convenor of Tawi Andolan, Advocate Chander Mohan Sharma, has called for immediate ban on all sorts of construction or repair of the illegally constructed houses and cattle sheds constructed in and
View ArticleJammu and Kashmir flood toll hits 260; 54 bodies found
The death toll in Jammu and Kashmir has crossed 260 with Jammu region accounting for most of the deaths in the worst flood in the state in more than a century. The death toll in Jammu region was 210 while
View ArticleJammu traders peg losses at Rs 800 crore
Ask govt to defer loan installments by six months Post-floods, the traders and industrialists in Jammu, who have invested in the Valley, are a harried lot as they have pegged their losses at Rs 800
View ArticleFlood-hit forced to drink polluted groundwater
Infrastructure of 1,662 water drinking schemes damaged in Jammu region With the entire government machinery engaged in restoring services in the Kashmir valley, thousands of flood-affected people in
View ArticleEnsure strict compliance of industrial pollution control norms: DC
Taking serious view of various complaints regarding pollution caused by different Industrial Units, Deputy Commissioner, Samba Mubarak Singh has constituted a committee comprising of members from District
View ArticleCold wave continues, Jammu records lowest temp
Cold wave continued across Jammu and Kashmir today as Jammu today recorded season's lowest temperature with the mercury dipping to 2.4 degrees Celsius, even as early morning dense fog affected air and
View Article20,000 Ha crop area damaged in hailstorm, yellow rust in Jammu
JAMMU, Mar 17: Over 20,000 hectares cropped area has been affected with the hailstorm and yellow rust in Jammu region due to massive rains, hailstorm and bad weather. Reports said that the farmers from
View Article2 killed, several rescued in flood ravaged Jammu region
Two persons were killed and several families were rescued while over a hundred structures damaged and equal number of live stocks perished in heavy rains and flash floods in Jammu region. The...
View ArticleRain killed 17 in Jammu region
4,300 houses damaged, hundreds of families shifted to safety With the recent torrential rain leading to widespread damage, 17 persons and 900 heads of livestock have been killed and 4,300 houses and
View ArticleGovt forms committee to identify encroached forest land
To identify encroached forest land in Sunjwan, Bathindi, Raika and Sidhra areas of Jammu district, the State Government has constituted a committee, headed by the Chief Conservator of Forest (S&D),...
View ArticleUnprecedented floods in Srinagar and warning and forecasting of floods and...
Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this Two Hundred and Sixty-seventh Report on 'Unprecedented floods in Srinagar and...
View ArticleJ&K CM calls for framing policy on forest conservation
Describing forest as nature's great gift, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today called for framing a policy and involving people to conserve forest wealth in the state. "A policy
View ArticleNearly 3 lakh households in J&K without power connectivity
The Government has demanded around Rs 1,200 crore from the Centre to provide electricity connection to nearly three lakh households in the State. “There are 1,09175 households in Kashmir Valley and...
View ArticleDengue: 19 more test positive in Jammu
Nineteen more cases of dengue were reported in Jammu on Tuesday taking the number of patients suffering from the vector-borne disease in the region to 52. "Blood samples of 77 people who showed...
View ArticleNGT notice on use of ponies, horses at Vaishno Devi shrine
An environment activist has moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking directions to stop the use of horses and ponies in Vaishno Devi shrine premises in Jammu, prompting the green panel to seek...
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