As flood risks mount due to continuing rainfall, authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have identified 654 vulnerable villages housing nearly 7.22 lakh people in the Kashmir Valley.
Among the 11 rescued persons, five were children. They were stranded at different places in the flood-affected district following incessant rainfall.
Authorities informed that at least three bodies have been recovered in Surankote after landslides, flash floods, and torrential rainfall, while several people remain unaccounted for.
Officials informed that this coincides with the suspension of the Shri Amarnathji Yatra due to the inclement weather forecast.
Investigators are now tracing the cross-border network, local links, and intended recipients after one suspect was arrested. Officials believe the case could uncover a larger smuggling operation.
In the heart of the Himalayas lies a land of extraordinary beauty—and extraordinary fragility. Kashmir, long known for its snow-capped mountains, pristine lakes, and centuries-old cultural heritage, is today walking a tightrope between economic revival and political volatility.
On an August afternoon six years ago, I called my good friend Kumar Tiku, author and United Nations project developer who happened to be a displaced Kashmiri Pandit.
For the third day running on Sunday, the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir as the Indian Army responded appropriately.
A number of hydroelectric projects have come up on the Chenab and a few more were under construction on its waters that flow to Pakistan from the Akhnoor area of the Jammu district.
Hours after he issued an alert circular to doctors in view of the “prevailing cross-border tension”, the medical superintendent of Jammu’s government medical college was on Saturday removed from the post and attached in the office of the director, health services here.
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