-Al Jazeera Floods triggered by rains in north of country have left 120 dead, besides stranding thousands of Hindu pilgrims. Monsoon flooding in northern India has claimed more than 120 lives, stranding thousands of people due to high water levels and landslides, officials say. ToRrential rain and landslides since Sunday have stranded pilgrims at four revered Hindu shrines, washed away bridges and roads and caused other damage in Uttrakhand province. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
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Rain toll rises to 131, over 73,000 pilgrims stranded
-The Times of India DEHRADUN/SHIMLA: ToRrential rains continued to pour in bad news from north India on Tuesday, with flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips claiming 69 more lives and taking the official death toll to 131, making for the most tragic tidings of monsoon in recent years. More than 73,000 pilgrims bound for the Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri remained stranded in Uttarakhand and about 1,700 tourists were...
More »Mamata Banerjee's goons silence an entire village -Kamalendu Bhadra
-The Times of India KAMDUNI (BARASAT): "Shut up", West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had shouted at Kamduni women on Monday. Her party toughs ensured they did. When TOI visited the village on Tuesday, the roar of a hundred women the previous day had been replaced by a deadening stillness. Branded "CPM supporters" and browbeaten by the CM, the women shut up and shut themselves indoors. On Monday, they had rushed to...
More »Forest officials seize 5,000 ToRtoises in AP-Rajulapudi Srinivas
-The Hindu VIJAYAWADA: The Krishna District Forest Department authorities (of Wildlife Management) seized about 5,000 ToRtoises being transported illegally on Tuesday. On a tip-off, the team led by Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) G. Anand conducted a raid in Kalidindi mandal in the wee hours and recovered the ToRtoises packed in 70 gunny bags. The ToRtoises were being smuggled to Odisha State, said the DFO. "About 100 ToRtoises were packed in each gunny bag....
More »Rain rage wrecks hill states
-The Telegraph At least 50 people have died in rain-triggered landslides, house collapses and flash floods in the north, mostly in Uttarakhand that has halted the popular Badrinath pilgrimage with around 30,000 pilgrims, many from Bengal, stranded. Three days of incessant rain have sent into spate Uttarakhand rivers that have burst banks and washed away houses - one of them a four-sToRey structure that had been vacated, apart from a temple. At least...
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