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| KASHMIR FLOODS: 77,000 rescued, above 4 lakhs still stranded | | Abandoned on treetops, rooftops without food; people forced to take flood water to quench thirst | |  Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Sept 10: Water levels have started receding in Srinagar city, one of the worst hit by the deluge, facilitating rescue workers to pluck out another 29,000 persons to safety but four lakh people were today still waiting for help in the flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley.
Scaling up rescue work, Army and IAF have deployed 329 columns and 79 aircrafts and helicopters to evacuate those stranded and provide food and medicines.
"A massive rescue and relief operation by Indian Armed Forces is continuing on a war footing in Jammu and Kashmir with over 76,500 persons rescued so far by the Armed forces and NDRF in different regions of the state", PRO, Defence, Col G D Goswami said today.
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| 100 dead, 314 roads washed away, 489 water supply schemes nowhere | | Rajouri district now completely shattered-1 | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Sept 10: Apart from more than 100 casualties including 63 members of a marriage party, 314 roads and 489 water supply schemes have either got damaged, washed away or blocked due to the recent flash floods and landslides in Rajouri district of Jammu region.
District administration of Rajouri has put the quantum of loss at Rs.163.85 crore and sought immediate release of around Rs.79.71 crore for temporary and Rs.84.13 crore for permanent restoration of the roads and various water supply schemes. In Rajouri Tehsil alone, 141 roads and 21 bridges/culverts have either got damaged or washed away. Roads and Buildings Department has put the loss at Rs.2638 Lakhs.
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| | | | "Omar can do nothing" | | | |
Early Times Report
new delhi, Sept 10: Chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI) and former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju today wrote in Facebook that the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir was very bad and the state government was dysfunctional. "I had a detailed telephonic discussion with Iftekhar Gilani of the DNA newspaper about the conditions in Kashmir at about 1 p.m. today. Iftekhar is a Kashmiri journalist based in Delhi. He told me that the state government of J&K has become totally dysfunctional, and even the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah can do nothing. The Director General of Police and other police officers have become helpless as their telephone links have been cu... | |
| | | | Omar doesn't want polls under Governor Rule? | | Floods and elections | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 10: The suffering of the people of Jammu & Kashmir caused due to floods is indeed unimaginable. Common people in the state suffered immensely during all these 25 years of secessionist and communal violence. They again suffered in 2005 when a massive earthquake shook parts of Kashmir Valley and Jammu region. But the situation was never that worse as it obtains today in the state. There are many parts of the state where the life has come to a grinding halt with all sections of society suffering and feeling the pain. It is difficult to say how many people have lost their lives and how many houses and shops have collapsed and damaged. It is also difficult to assess the damag... | |
| | | | CM's remarks on JK devastation underscores Govt's nonchalance | | | |
Kunal Shrivatsa
Jammu, Sept 10: While the general public of the state has yet to come out of the distress caused by the incessant rains and flash floods, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's comments blaming marooned people themselves for the present crisis they are in, was nothing less than rubbing salt onto their wounds.
The appalling comments of CM Omar Abdullah has come like a bolt from the blue for the affected people, who are already grappling with the flood fury and still awaiting relief and rescue measures particularly in upper reaches of Jammu region and several submerged areas of Kashmir Valley.
In conversation with a news channel, CM Abdullah while refused to take the responsi... | |
| | | | NC's candidate beat Sarpanch in presence of police; FIR lodged | | Now! Akbar Lone faces wrath at airport | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Sept 10: A day after senior Congress leader faced ire of the people in Kashmir, another leader from NC camp faced wrath of people in Kashmir today at Srinagar airport. The incident took place when the Mohd Akbar Lone, Minister for Higher Education reached at Srinagar airport along with his family members for boarding to Jammu. The eyewitnesses said that, feeling aggrieved of the minister who are leaving them at the mercy of the God, the people at the airport started accusing him. However, ignoring the people accusation, the minister made his way.
Pertinently, while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is distributing relief in the shape of food and other essential material... | |
| | | | Short of manpower, IRCS in defunct mode | | | |
Shiv Thakur
JAMMU, Sept 10: At a time when the state is in the grip of an unprecedented natural disaster in the shape of flash floods, the Indian Red Cross Society Jammu(IRCS) which is supposed to be on its toes in such a critical situation has failed to come up to the expectations as the premier social service agency is crippled with short of manpower and other resources.
Indian Red Cross Society, infamous for many irregularities is again in limelight for its non operational and non functional defunct centres and shortage of man power.
Society has established centres in almost all the cities and provinces, but some of them are non functional and defunct, and those centres which are w... | |
| | | | CE R&B files criminal complaint against rumors of Tawi bridge damage | | Repair work on approach road of fourth Tawi Bridge to start today | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Sept 10: Close on the heels of rumours regarding earthquake in Jammu the previous day that kept the entire city in open the entire night, social messenger Whatsapp is abuzz with messages of damage to old Tawi bridge connecting Bikram chowk with Jewel, creating panic and anxiety amongst cityites. Taking cognizance of the matter, a perturbed Chief Engineer R&B lodged a complaint with the Police and district administration to get the rumor mongers booked.
The message flashed on Whatsapp read "The engineers team in Jammu after a whole day check on main Tawi bridge Bikram Chowk Jammu connecting old city with the new city today said that it can collapse any time unless it is... | |
| | | | Except Go Air, all airlines charging Rs 250 per Kg relief for Srinagar | | Charity costing dearer to NGOs | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: The act of charity from Jammu to flood ravaged Kashmir is facing aviation wrath as except Go Air, all other airlines operating from Jammu to Srinagar and vice verse are charging Rs 250 per kilo relief package being dispatched to Sringar from Jammu
The relief being provided to them voluntarily by the various Non Government Organizations from Jammu have reported such inhumane exercise undertaken by the airlines when all the agencies within and outside state are extending charity to flood torn state of Jammu and Kashmir .
As per reports, except Go Air, all other airlines operating from Jammu to Srinagar and vice verse are charging Rs 250 on per kilo relief... | |
| | | | Fuel shortage leaves CSSD dysfunctional; GMCH fails to conduct operations | | | |
Bijay Charak
JAMMU, Sept 10: Scarcity of fuel has made Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) dysfunctional for the last four days, due to which not a single surgery has been conducted in the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H), forcing the patients to visit private hospitals or clinics for even minor surgeries.
Sources informed Early Times that fuel required to run the Central Sterile Supply department, in which all the equipments and devices required for surgery were sterilized by using steam, has been running short of fuel, which has virtually made the CSSD defunct. "For the last four days not a single patient is operated in General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology d... | |
| | | | Centre should handle relief and rehabilitation work | | Lack of faith in NC-Cong Govt | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 10: People of the flood-ravaged Jammu & Kashmir have no faith in the ruling coalition comprising the National Conference (NC) and the Congress. They believe, and very rightly, that the vested interests in the government would not make optimum use of the funds being made available to the state government by the central government for relief and rehabilitation purpose and that the "corrupt" elements in the government and the ruling coalition would "misappropriate" the Indian taxpayers' money. "They will loot and plunder the taxpayers' money" is the general perception. They consider the present dispensation corrupt to the core and insensitive and want the central government t... | |
| | | | Hafiz Saeed coins water terrorism and blames India for exporting it to Pak and PoK | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: Chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Hafiz Saeed, has blamed India for exporting water terrorism to Pakistan and occupied Kashmir. Well neither the Oxford nor the American dictionary has in its catalogue a term like "water terrorism."
Saeed was simply referring to the massive damage to crops and private and Government properties in Punjab and occupied Kashmir caused by floods in rivers Jhelum, Chenab, the Indus, Sutlej, Beas and Ravi. While doing so he seems to have ignored, possibly deliberately, the massive damage and destruction inundated Chenab, Jhelum and other lakes and rivers caused in Jammu and Kashmir.
Well Saeed needs to be reminded that under the Indu... | |
| | | | State Govt yet to awake from deep slumber, restoration work yet to start in normal Jammu region | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 10: Even as the Army has constructed some of the damaged bridges across the state of Jammu and Kashmir, State Government has yet to start operations to damage important bridges. Two bridges on the river Tawi-one at Mandal Phalian area and second one at Bhagwati Nagar were damaged on Saturday but till date no step has been taken by the State authorities start repair of these two vital bridges.
Since Sunday morning weather is not only fair but it is also conducive for start construction or repair work but unfortunately State Government has not started any process to repair these two bridges.
Credible sources said that none of the officers is ready to start re... | |
| | | | Khurshid, another BVSc student missing in Kashmir flood furry | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10: While students are the major sufferers of the flashflood that has hit Jammu and Kashmirr marooning the entire state, two more students from Kashmir who have lost contact with their parents here have gone missing in the deluge with whereabouts of them being still untraced.
BVSC, third year student of veterinary college Suhama in Ganderbal district has lost contact with his parents since some days when the deluge hit the valley .
Despite many efforts and reaching various quarters and listing their grievances with the helpline numbers of the Ganderbal district, the parents of the lost student are in frenzy for not knowing the well-being of their son.
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| | | | SPCB drags feet in taking action against defaulters | | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Sept 10: Bizarre it may sound but it is fact that State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) had issued an order for closure of 551 defaulting industrial units for non compliance of Environmental Laws, but out of which 144 closure orders had subsequently been kept in abeyance or were withdrawn by board and the status of subsequent action taken in the remaining 407 cases is not available with the board. Sources in the Board told Early Times that SPCB had issued 551 closure orders in the past few years to the defaulting units for violating Environmental laws and it was seen that 144 closure orders were kept in abeyance or withdrawn and the report of rest of the cases was not a... | |
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