Tag: Rivers

For the last two years, 35-year-old Mohammad Altaf Bohru of Kashmir’s Kulgam district has been working as a scrap dealer. A father of three, Bohru belongs to Kashmir’s 66,000-strong fishermen community, locally known as gaadi hanjis (those who catch and trade in fish). He lives in Kulgam’s Bhan village ...

In Baltistan’s Kharmang village in PoK, a priest leads the funeral prayers of a women believed to missing from Kargil. Photo: Special Arrangement The cold mountains of Kargil in the Union Territory of Ladakh are witnessing a rare humanitarian crisis. Growing accidents and flash floods in the Suru river ...

#Heavyrainfall in Katra, Mata #VaishnoDevi new track suspended...#JammuAndKashmir #Jammu pic.twitter.com/e3fyEU0aju— Atul Chhabra (@AttiAtul) July 19, 2023 SHO Bhawan and the police team help Mata Vaishno Devi Yatris in view of heavy rain early in the morning in Bhawan. #matavaishnodevi #katra #JammuAndKashmir pic.twitter.com/Stvl04wst2— JK Student Updates (@JKStudentUpdat2) July 19, 2023 ...

Jammu: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended, while authorities ordered the closure of schools in Doda and Kishtwar districts as heavy rains lashed the Jammu region, creating a flood-like situation at many places, officials said on Wednesday.They said rivers and rivulets at many places, especially in Kathua ...

Delhi recorded the highest rainfall in four decades.Monsoon fury disrupted normal life across several North Indian states including Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Extremely heavy rainfall has caused waterlogging, swept cars away and washed away bridges in several states. India received 81% above normal rainfall on Sunday while Delhi ...

India oi-Prakash KL | Updated: Sunday, July 9, 2023, 23:50 Torrential rains pounded several parts of north India on Sunday with 15 people killed in landslides and other rain-related incidents, while most rivers, including the Yamuna in Delhi, were in spate. In cities and towns across the region, ...

Railway services have also been hit. The Northern Railways said it has cancelled around 17 trains and diverted around 12 others Published Date - 09:45 PM, Sun - 9 July 23 A swollen River Beas following heavy rains in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India, Sunday, July ...

After the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghans who had worked with NATO forces, including the U.S. and Canada, were evacuated from Afghanistan through special programs. So far, Canada has welcomed over 32,000 vulnerable Afghans, including those who assisted the government ...

For skiers it has been an epic winter in California, with more than 16 metres of snow recorded at the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada. But for many people the excessively stormy winter has brought misery, submerging homes in snow, and causing widespread flooding and landslides across the ...

CNN  —  As parts of the West and Northern US face a winter storm with blizzard conditions and significant snowfall, much of the rest of the country is experiencing a summer-like heat that has never been felt before during the month of February. More than 130 cities from the ...