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| Blizzards blow into emergency, over 16 dead, many trapped | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 8
The snow fall which began as an incessant normal routine and then turned into blizzards has not blown into a full state of emergency with more than 16 people buried alive and still many more trapped under avalanches. Those missing or trapped under avalanches are though being searched by the rescue teams but chances of their survival are bleak, said officials associated with the rescue operation.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today convened an emergency meeting of Ministers and officers to discuss the situation arising out of the snowfall. Chief Secretary BR Kundal also chaired a meeting of the Disaster Management Authority and sanctioned Rs seven Crores to meet the exigency.
Reports pouring in from different parts of state said that at least sixteen persons were buried in avalanches today that hit villages along the national highway in Jammu and Kashmir while security forces rescued 46 people, including a small girl, amid blizzards and heavy snow.
Six persons, including three woman and a girl, were killed when an avalanche struck three hou... | |
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| In Valley of death JKP wins hearts and Rs 50,000 | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 8
As Valley resident enter the severe danger zone with avalanches continuing to take human toll, the Jammu and Kashmir Police is winning hearts of people by their valour and timely rescue operations.
Putting their own lives at risk, Qazigund Police rescued 39 people and recovered a dead body from snow struck Gulab Bagh area of Qazigund, today. Out of the rescued people, two were in injured condition.
According to SP Swayam Prakash Pani, Police received information that a residential structure had collapsed at Gulab Bagh in Qazigund, which had received more that 11 feet's of snow during last three days. Gulab Bagh are is around five kilometers away fr... | |
| | | | VIPs’ security not at the cost of common man | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 8
News Analysis
Happily, the stand off between the Residency Road Traders and the authorities was resolved within a short time, with the Divisional Commissioner Jammu Sudhanshu Pandey adopting a reasonable attitude towards the agitated Residency Road Traders and conceding their demand to allow the vehicles of the customers coming to the market for shopping to be parked on one side of the Residency Road, while the shopkeepers will park their own vehicles in the parking slot being set up at Eid Gah ground in a by lane of the Residency Road.
On Wednesday, the authorities abruptly removed the paid parking lot duly set up by the Jammu Municipal C... | |
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