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A phone call, a flurry of activity: When a local hospital had to respond to Kishtwar flash flood
August 17, 2025 7:45 am
The hospital was already working with skeletal staff – three of its six doctors and some paramedics were on pilgrimage duty -- and it was short of medicines, equipment and beds
In Chishoti, man running langar pulled out from debris after 30 hours
August 17, 2025 3:25 am
Amid the devastation caused by the cloudburst, Subhash Chandra, who had been running a langar (community kitchen) for Mata Machail pilgrims, was rescued alive after being trapped under debris for nearly 30 hours.
‘Why were precautionary measures not taken despite Met warning’: J&K House environment panel member on Kishtwar cloudburst
August 16, 2025 7:58 pm
Communist leader M Y Tarigami seeks urgent and time bound inquiry into loss of lives.
All hands on deck in Kishtwar as desperate search for the missing picks up
August 16, 2025 5:34 am
From J&K Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma, Kishtwar District Development Council chairperson Pooja Thakur to local NGO Ababeel, people across the spectrum came forward to help
A rush of pilgrims, and then, all swept away: Eyewitnesses recount Kishtwar flash flood horror
August 16, 2025 10:03 am
Many pilgrims had just disembarked from their vehicles and were taking a break before travelling on. Several people were sitting at the langar set up near the nullah
Kishtwar flash flood: How climate change has contributed to extreme weather events in J&K
August 17, 2025 2:58 pm
550 people have been killed in 2,800 extreme weather events in J&K from 2010-22. Disasters like the flash flood in Kishtwar have been driven by rising temperatures, changes in the nature of western disturbances
65 and counting: Why assessing toll of Kishtwar cloudburst is proving difficult
August 15, 2025 7:19 pm
‘One of the witnesses said there were around 200 pilgrims near the langar when it was swept away’
Many pilgrims were standing in nullah when cloudburst hit, several swept away: Locals on Kishtwar tragedy
August 14, 2025 7:47 pm
Officials feared that the death toll could rise, saying that several people were missing.
Encounter in Kishtwar after security forces intensify search operations in Jammu
July 21, 2025 3:50 am
The police and security forces said thy had been tracking the group since last year after a village defense guard (VDG) and an Army soldier were killed in separate encounters.
CBI files chargesheet against former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik and 6 others in Kiru hydropower corruption case
May 23, 2025 1:28 am
Two years after he demitted office as J&K governor, Satya Pal Malik claimed in 2021 that he was offered Rs 300 crore in bribes to clear two files, including one related to a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader.
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