Shimla, Sep 3 (IANS) Six people, comprising four of a family, were killed after a landslide buried two houses in Sundernagar town in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, police said on Wednesday.
Jammu, Sep 3 (IANS) Incessant rainfall has swollen all the rivers and streams in the Jammu division, as the water level again crossed the flood alert mark in Tawi, Chenab, Basantar and Ujh rivers, with authorities using loudspeakers to sound an alert in Jammu city on Wednesday.
Ferozepur (Punjab), Sep 2 (IANS) Expressing concern over the meagre compensation given to the people for losses due to natural disasters, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday sought upward revision in the relief norms by the Centre.
Chandigarh, Sep 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called up Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to discuss the rain and flooding in the state, immediately upon landing in New Delhi after his China visit, official sources said.
Jammu, Sep 1 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday visited the flood-affected areas in Jammu and asserted that the Modi government will continue to provide financial and other assistance to the victims.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
