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Srinagar, Sept 13: When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir. Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost their belongings and their weapons were damaged or left useless after water entered their camps across the Kashmir Valley. Hundreds of AK rifles

Srinagar, Sep 13: Fourteen children who died at a hospital here are among the 43 people found dead in the Kashmir Valley as the flood waters receded in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said Saturday. Officials Saturday said the 14 children had died in the government-run G.B. Pant Hospital here. The hospital and other major hospitals in the city, including the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) and the

New Delhi, Sep 13: Polling for three Lok Sabha and 33 assembly constituencies across nine states, which is being seen as yet another major test of the Narendra Modi government's popularity since it assumed power in May, began on Saturday. The three Lok Sabha bypolls are in Gujarat's Vadodara, Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri and Telangana's Medak while 11 assembly constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh, nine

New Delhi, Sep 12: Assembly elections in 288 seats in Maharashtra and 90 seats in Haryana will be held on October 15 and counting will take place on October 19, Election Commission announced today. Giving details of the election schedule, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said apart from these states, byelections will be conducted on the same day for five assembly seats in five states

New Delhi, Sep 12: The Supreme Court Friday permitted Italian marine Massimilano Latorre to go back home to Italy for his treatment for four months.The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said the order would be effective only after the Italian marine has filed an "unequivocal and unambigous undertaking" on his return to India upon the completion of four months. Latorre is accused

Kapurthala, Sep 12: The first high speed train with a speed of 160 kilometer per hour will run on Delhi-Agra section in November this year as the first rake of fourteen coaches of the train is all set to be rolled out in November. Shells of the first rake of high speed coaches had been manufactured and the work was going on at fast pace to roll out the first rake by the end of October this year so

New Delhi, Sep 11: BJP today received backing from an unexpected quarter with former chief minister Sheila Dikshit saying the party should be given an opportunity to form government as it will be good for the people of Delhi, remarks from which the Congress quickly distanced itself. "In a democracy, elected governments are always good as they represent the people. If BJP has reached such a

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 10: BJP president Amit Shah has been accused of delivering a hate speech in the run up to the national elections by the police in Muzaffarnagar, which was devastated by communal violence last year. The local police in this part of Western Uttar Pradesh, a four-hour drive from Delhi, has chargesheeted Mr Shah based on a video clip of a speech he delivered in April. A local court

Srinagar, Sep 10: Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday termed the situation in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir "serious" but hit out at critics who said his government was not doing enough. "What can I do. I didn't bring the rain, nor can I stop it. If I could, I would have done that," an angry Omar said. "If the opposition can do anything better about the situation then I am ready to listen to

Srinagar, Sep 10: More than 50,000 people have been rescued so far, but hundreds are still trapped here as the flood waters receded Wednesday. Officials said 215 people have died in the Jammu and Kashmir floods. "Unless the flood waters recede completely, and we are able to reach all the submerged areas, we cannot be sure about the exact toll in these floods," a top state official said. Many are