Afghanistan earthquake: India sends assistance, EAM Jaishankar dials Muttaqi

IANS | September 1, 2025 5:44 PM

New Delhi/Kabul Sep 1 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday spoke with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, expressing condolences over the loss of lives in the earthquake that struck the war-ravaged country on Sunday night. Wishing early recovery to those injured, the EAM expressed India's full support for Afghanistan in this hour of grief and conveyed that New Delhi will be sending food and relief material to Kabul.

Floods may drown land, but never 'Chardi Kala' spirit of Punjabis, say survivors

Vishal Gulati | September 1, 2025 3:00 PM

Ferozepur/Gurdaspur, Sep 1 (IANS) "We have seen tougher times earlier too and this will pass," remarked an octogenarian villager, whose field and farmhouse have been submerged in waist-deep water of the swollen Sutlej river, on Monday.

Monsoon fury batters Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa worst hit

IANS | September 1, 2025 1:52 PM

Islamabad, Sep 1 (IANS) As torrential monsoon rain lashes Pakistan, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province has been hit the hardest, bearing the brunt of the disastrous heavy downpours largely due to the lack of an early flood warning system, local media reported on Monday.

HM Amit Shah to review flood-hit areas in Jammu today

IANS | September 1, 2025 7:07 AM

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah is visiting Jammu on Sunday to review the devastation caused by recent heavy rains, flash floods, landslides, and soil erosion across the region.

Inter-Ministerial Central Teams constituted to assess damage in disaster-affected states

IANS | August 31, 2025 9:30 PM

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs), each for Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to assess damage caused by heavy rainfall, flood, flash flood, cloudbursts and landslides, an official said on Sunday.

Two special trains leave Jammu with over 1,200 stranded passengers

IANS | August 30, 2025 10:39 PM

Jammu, Aug 30 (IANS) Rising to its commitment to the nation despite heavy odds and vagaries of flood, the Northern Railways on Saturday operated two special trains from Jammu and Kashmir's Jammu with more than 1,200 stranded passengers.

Pakistan: Torrential rains affect over 1.46 million people

IANS | August 30, 2025 9:06 PM

Islamabad, Aug 30 (IANS) As Pakistan's Punjab province battles one of the worst flooding in decades, at least 28 more people have been killed due to flash floods and urban inundation triggered by torrential monsoon rains, local media reported on Saturday.

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Afghanistan earthquake: India sends assistance, EAM Jaishankar dials Muttaqi

Floods may drown land, but never 'Chardi Kala' spirit of Punjabis, say survivors

Monsoon fury batters Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa worst hit

HM Amit Shah to review flood-hit areas in Jammu today

Inter-Ministerial Central Teams constituted to assess damage in disaster-affected states

Two special trains leave Jammu with over 1,200 stranded passengers

Pakistan: Torrential rains affect over 1.46 million people

CM Yogi conducts aerial survey of flood-hit areas in UP, issues relief guidelines

Three dead, several missing as cloudburst hits J&K's Ramban

Two missing as cloudburst triggers havoc in Chamoli, rescue ops underway

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