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Tawi, Chenab spell disaster in Jammu region; toll reaches 150 The Deluge Continues 9/7/2014 12:24:08 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Sept 6: Incessant rains coupled with flash floods have consumed more than 150 precious lives in Jammu region besides causing extensive damage to the private property, government buildings, vital bridges, roads and religious places. The toll in the Jammu region has risen to 120 following the death of 14 people in a landslide in Rajouri on Friday, while many more are missing. Both the Chenab and Tawi rivers were flowing above the danger mark today morning, with three bridges on Tawi were closed for traffic as they were declared unsafe, officials said. One, built in May, was later washed away. A bridge over the Chenab in Akhnoor was closed on Friday. Revenue Secr5etary Vinod Koul earlier said that 390 villages in the Valley were submerged and 1,225 partially ...   READ MORE

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PM to visit flood-hit J K today 9/7/2014 12:23:17 AM New Delhi, Sept 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow to personally assess the damage caused by floods in the state. He will first travel to Jammu where he will undertake an aerial survey, sources said. Later in the day, he will go to Kashmir and take stock of the situation. The visit takes place a day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh's tour of the state which has been hit badly by the floods, claiming the lives of over 100 people. Modi, while condoling the deaths in the flood, on Thursday announced Rs 2 lakh as ex-gratia relief for the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the seriously injured....   READ MORE   Rain damages 100 bridges, newly constructed Tawi Bridge too collapses PWD, ERA under scanner! 9/7/2014 12:23:12 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 6: Putting a question mark on working of Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and Public Works Department (PWD), more than 100 bridges have collapsed during the last four days across Jammu region. Though the two agencies which constructed these bridges have already begun saying that unprecedented floods led to collapse of bridges but those in the field of engineering are not ready to buy their argument. Such was the situation that state administration had to stop traffic over all the seven bridges on River Tawi. Even the movement over Akhnoor Bridge was restricted for some hours. The three vital bridges which cater to most of the traffic in Jammu city were...   READ MORE   More Kashmir areas inundated 9/7/2014 12:22:55 AM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, Sept 6: The flood fury continues to play havoc with the people of Kashmir valley with more areas getting submerged today as the water level in river Jhelum continues to be on upward trend with it flowing 10 feet above the danger mark at Sangam in South Kashmir's Anantnag district. Meanwhile, authorities have postponed all the Haj flights from Srinagar up to September 12. The revised dates for postponed Haj flights would be announced later on. The Haj house here in the summer capital is submerged in flood. In the meantime, one more person died due to flood related incidents. A widow of Badran-Magam suffered massive heart attack after learning that her paddy fi...   READ MORE   'Sleepy' CM's night out with a photographer! 9/7/2014 12:22:10 AM Srinagar, Sept 6: A local newspaper showed Chef Minister monitoring a rescue operation in a flood hit area in wee hours on Friday. The newspaper conveyed that the Chief Minister stayed awake all night to monitor rescue operations. The newspaper even published a photograph showing the kid who was rescued and a `sleepy' Chief Minister. The fact that a photographer from a local daily was accompanying the Chief Minister all night speaks volumes about the sincerity of the effort. Isn't it safe t...   READ MORE   Rajnath Singh takes stock of situation in J&K 9/7/2014 12:19:49 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sept 6: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today held a meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take stock of the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Mr Singh arrived this morning and went straight into a meeting with the Chief Minister in the technical area of the airport where both discussed steps to meet the situation arising out of the worst floods in the state in six decades. After briefing the Home Minister, Mr Omar himself drove Singh through the Srinagar city which is witnessing heavy rainfall since morning. Accompanied with Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh, the Home Minister is scheduled to conduct an aerial survey in the affected distric...   READ MORE   Vaishno Devi Yatra suspended for third consecutive day Train service cancelled 9/7/2014 12:19:43 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 6: Yatra to Mata Vaishno Devi cave shrine has been suspended for third consecutive day today in view of heavy rains in Jammu and Kashmir as authorities said the pilgrimage would be resumed only after the weather improves. "Yatra to cave shrine remained suspended for third day today in view of heavy rains and bad weather conditions", officials of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) said. Keeping in view safety of pilgrims in the wake of incessant torrential rainfall and also considering the weather forecast, Yatra to the Shrine from Katra-the base camp, has been temporarily suspended till further notice, a spokesman of the Board said. The Yatra was...   READ MORE   Traffic continues to remain disrupted, all highways closed 9/7/2014 12:19:33 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 6: Traffic on ever busy Srinagar-Jammu National Highway NH-1, Jammu-Poonch, Doda-Kishtwar remained suspended today due to landslides and flood at many places, triggered by heavy rains in the region. The traffic on Jammu-Pathankote NH also got partially affected due to flash flood in a local rivulet that damaged the main bridge connecting Samba and Kathua Districts here. Official sources said Srinagar-Jammu NH remained closed for the fourth day today due to landslides and flood at many places following heavy rain during the past five days. All the four bridges on Tawi river were closed for vehicles as the water level crossed the danger mark. They said it...   READ MORE   Flood hits PDD; Deptt suffers Rs 20 Cr loss 'Officials ignored MeT prediction' 9/7/2014 12:19:27 AM Fazal Khan Srinagar, Sept 6: Kashmir has been reeling under darkness from the day incessant rains hit the Valley. Power Development Department today claimed that it has suffered an estimated loss of around Rs 20 crore and hundreds of transformers and receiving stations have been submerged in south and central Kashmir. Talking to Early Times Chief Engineer Power Development Department Bashir Ahmed Khan said, "Floods have wrecked havoc in south and central Kashmir. We have disconnected the power in the areas which have been hit by the floods as many lines are submerged." He claimed that PDD has suffered losses worth Rs 20 crore. "This is just an initial estimate, losses can be on the ...   READ MORE   Land for Kashmiri Pandits can be found in 2 months: Rajnath Singh 9/7/2014 12:19:13 AM Early Times Report Srinagar/Jammu, Sept 6: The land for rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, who migrated from the Kashmir Valley in the early 1990's due to militancy, can be identified in one or two months, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. "We are committed to the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits who have migrated from the valley. The state government can start the process of identifying the land for their rehabilitation after the floods. They can identify land in one month or two months after dealing with floods," he told reporters here. Singh was on a day-long tour to Jammu and Kashmir during which he made an aerial survey of flood affected areas of the state...   READ MORE   MGNREGA fraud surfaces in Kupwara 9/7/2014 12:19:07 AM Syed Tahir Bukhari KUPWARA, Sept 6: Misappropriation of funds in (MGNREGA) aimed at providing employment to rural masses to uplift their living conditions has come to fore in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. According to sources, the developmental works have been nearly 100 percent completed on the papers but on the ground things are entirely different as no works are visible. The persons who are dealing with affairs of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are either political workers or government employees. "Rupees nine lakhs have been released for 19 works which don't exist on ground in one Keran and Karnah Thesil alone. The funds released under In...   READ MORE   Kashmiris voting for BJP & Jammuites voting for PDP or NC are improbabilities 9/7/2014 12:19:01 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 6: Those who believe that improbabilities can turn,on a rare occasion,into probabilities say firmly that in permutation combination of political parties there are two issues that are improbable and never can become probable. If majority of voters in the Kashmir valley,who are muslims,vote for the BJP in the ensuing Assembly election it means that something improbable has become probable.If majority of voters in the Jammu region vote for the Kashmir centric PDP or the National Conference it will denote impossibilities turning into possibilities. Now that the BJP leadership is trying to achieve impossible + 44 mission to enable it to form the next G...   READ MORE   Nowshera bus mishap: 33 bodies recovered so far 9/6/2014 11:36:42 PM Early Times Report RAJOURI, Sept 6: With the recovery of eight more bodies today, 33 bodies have so far been recovered from the river near Nowshera in which a bus of baratis had fallen two days back. In other flood-affected areas of Rajouri, Budhal and Darhal, army and civil authorities have so far rescued 727 persons. SDPO Nowshera said that exact number of Baratis traveling in the bus couldn't be ascertained as many of them were from Ludhiana , Poonch, Jammu , Rajouri and other places of t...   READ MORE   Three of family among five killed as hillock cave in at Sidhra, many rescued 9/6/2014 11:35:29 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 6: Three of a family among five persons including two minors died after a hillock caved in Sidhra an outskirt area of Jammu city and many locals living at the foothill come under the rubble of a hillock today, police said. The incident took place at Tutai Di Khui area in Sidhra after the ongoing heavy rains resulted into caving in of a hillock and five persons reportedly come under its debris. "The ill-fated people living in a Kucha (mud) house constructed in the compound of Stone Crusher fell prey to the rubble and sludge from hillock. Police sources said, "The deceased have been identified namely as Ashok Kumar of Kathua, Sunil Kumar of Jharkhand his w...   READ MORE   Sacrilegious act lead to people-police clash 9/6/2014 11:35:15 PM Jammu, Sept 6: Scores of protestors and policemen received injuries in a ding-dong battle that took place at Bantalab near here, following an alleged sacrilegious act. As per eyewitnesses, hundreds of the people came on road at Bantalab and held a demonstration against an alleged sacrilegious act which caused disruption in the vehicular movement for hours together. The protesters also clashed with police after which police canecharged them and also fired teargas shells to disperse them. The ding-dong battle between them continued till late tonight.Sources said the sacrilegious act sparked off strong resentment in the area with the people holding a demonstration, demanding immediate a...   READ MORE   Bus accident video clip creates panic across J&K 9/6/2014 11:34:17 PM Sandeep Bhat SRINAGAR, Sept 6: The video clip showing a bus in the middle of river along with passengers washed away in flood created panic and anxiety among the people of both the regions of the state and this clip spreaded like wildfire across the state through whatsapp. The people of both Kashmir and Jammu region remained busy in watching this clip continuously and shared their sympathy with the aggrieved ones. As per the information, this video clip is of Assam flood in the year 2012 and this bus video has already been shown by TV channels in that year. Now when our state is facing natural calamity of this kind, some mischievous elements have uploaded this clip on mobile and circulat...   READ MORE

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