Disaster

Srinagar’s sordid saga: How Bemina choked the city

A slew of summertime flood predictions cast a looming shadow on Srinagar where battle for spaces has long turned flood basins into...

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Srinagar’s sordid saga: Dwelling in disaster-prone areas

2014 did to Kashmiris what many years of battered conflict couldn’t do. Such a shocker however, has not served as a wakeup call....

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India grounds Boeing 737-800 MAX aircraft

India’s civil aviation regulator on Tuesday suspended the operations of Boeing 737-800 MAX aircraft, after several other countries restrained their airlines from...

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KCCI seeks compensation for Kashmiri traders whose stalls were gutted in Hyderabad exhibition

Srinagar: In a massive fire at an exhibition in Hyderabad, around 300 stalls of Kashmiri businesspersons were completely destroyed. People from across...

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Orchardists from Kupwara district demand compensation after suffering huge loss in snowfall

Srinagar: Even as the government declared recent and untimely snowfall across Kashmir as natural calamity, the orchardists from northern Kashmir on Wednesday...

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Indonesia plane crash: Boeing issues bulletin warning operators about 737 models

Boeing Corporation is in preparations for sending a bulletin on its new 737 models to operators warning them that incorrect readings from...

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Kerala floods: Report reveals ‘lapses in dam management, builders acquiring eroded land’

A report on Kerala floods by an investigating committee from Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Special Centre for Disaster Research, who collaborated with the National Institute for...

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‘Yemen on the brink of widespread famine, 50 percent surviving on humanitarian aid alone’

The UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock Tuesday warned that Yemen is on the brink of widespread famine, with almost fifty percent...