Additional Deputy Commissioner, Kotranka, Dil Mir confirmed the shifting of the affected families to a government accommodation at a safer place to prevent loss of lives.

The Supreme Court is hearing a plea seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, with the applicants saying that not doing so ‘violates the idea of federalism’.

As the union territory celebrates Independence Day led by its own elected chief minister for the first time in 7 years, the shadows of Pahalgam and Kishtwar dim the exuberance

Over 30 people are dead and several are injured after a cloudburst hit a remote mountain village in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. It triggered flash floods, which swept away a langar and structures at Chashoti village.

More than 30 people were killed after flash floods triggered by the massive cloudburst tore through Kishtwar's Chositi, damaging several homes and forcing authorities to even halt the annual yatra to the shrine.

Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 200 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have said, as scores of people remain missing.

Abdullah said that in the next eight weeks, he and his team will go door-to-door to collect signatures in support of restoring statehood.

The Bairabi railway station, where the Indian railway line ends in the northeast, is the sole railway station in Mizoram.

Cloudburst strikes Chositi village near Machail Mata Shrine in Padder Tashoti area, triggering flash floods that swept away community kitchen - Anadolu Ajansı

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