Gurez: Nearly 16 Army men lost their lives in the February 22 avalanche in Gurez and Dawar areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Three others were killed when another avalanche occured in Sonamarg the very same day. Heavy snowfall hampered the rescue and retrieval operation. It took the Army 6 days to recover the body of the last missing soldier. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Twin avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday left 16 army jawans dead. ...
12:53 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Srinagar: Nine civilians trapped in avalanche-hit Sonamarg area of Kashmir for three days were rescued on Friday by local authorities assisted by Army even as hopes of finding alive three Armymen missing in the snowslide in Gurez sector faded away. "Nine civilians have been rescued from snow-bound Sonamarg area this morning with the assistance of the Army," Coordinator Natural Disaster Management Cell Aamir Ali said. Ali said three government employees...
12:15 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Srinagar: Twin avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir have left 16 Army jawans dead. The avalanches occurred in the Sonmarg and Gurez areas near the Line of Control. Thirteen others were saved on Thursday but three remain trapped. Rescue operations have been hampered due to heavy snowfall. Authorities fear that the death toll could rise. Meanwhile, two members of the Sonmarg development authority have gone missing. The State government has now...
08:39 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Srinagar: Eleven jawans were killed as avalanches hit several districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Eight bodies were recovered in Gurez, while three to four jawans were still missing. Three other armymen were confirmed dead in Sonmarg. Authorities feared the death toll could climb in both the incidents. ...
08:50 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Stockholm: A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday. The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday, emaciated and too weak to utter more than a few words. He was found not far from the city of Umea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who...
01:12 PM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: Mercury plunged five degrees below normal on Thursday morning bringing back cold conditions in the city which was experiencing a spell of relatively pleasant weather over the last few days. The low was recorded at 4 degree Celsius, down by 4.5 degrees from Wednesday's minimum temperature of 8.5 degrees, the MeT office said. Cold winds added to the chill in the air early in the morning but a...
05:21 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Sofia: Heavy snowfall across eastern Europe cut off hundreds of villages on Tuesday and rescue teams struggled to evacuate people in southern Bulgaria where rain and melting snow had caused a dam wall to break, flooding an entire village. A river dike also broke under intense water pressure near Kapitan Andreevo at the border with Turkey, officials said. At least 250 people have already died across the region during the...
06:21 AM, Feb 08, 2012
London: Europe continues to reel under intense cold wave with snow covering Rome after almost 27 years and over 300 people dying. Rome has experienced its first snowfall since 1985 while the Heathrow Airport of London has cancelled nearly half of its flights due to the harsh weather conditions. A few Mumbai bound flights were also among those cancellations. Many people also had to spend the night in cars when...
09:03 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Jammu: Snowfall and heavy rains forced the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to remain closed for the second consecutive day on Sunday. "The highway is closed for second consecutive day today. There is snowfall in the highway at several areas with heavy rains. Besides some landslides have also occurred on the highway," SP Ramban Anil Magotra said. It is snowing at Jawahir tunnel, Banihal, Ramso, Batote, Patnitop areas en route the...
12:40 PM, Feb 05, 2012
London: In the wake of heavy snowfall and severe weather warnings, London's Heathrow Airport cancelled 30 per cent of flights that were scheduled to take off on Sunday. The world's busiest international passenger airport said that up to 10 centimetres of snow were expected to fall which would cause major disruption at the west London airport without reductions to the flight schedule. Heathrow's chief operating officer Normand Boivin said, "We...
12:10 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Srinagar: Parts of Kashmir Valley on Thursday received fresh snowfall even as the residents got respite from severe cold wave with minimum temperature increasing by several degrees. Fresh snowfall was recorded at three south Kashmir locations, including the tourist resort of Pahalgam, while light snowfall was recorded in the Srinagar city. Pahalgam received 9 cm snowfall, while Kokernag recorded 10 cm snowfall, a MeT official said. Qazigung town, which acts...
02:34 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Snowfall continues to cause woes for people along the arterial Jammu-Srinagar national highway. ...
10:28 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will evacuate civilians from Jammu-Sringar Highway. Heavy snowfall on the national highway has left nearly 3000 vehicles stranded. Military personnel stuck in the area have already been evacuated. The highway was reopened on Tuesday but the 300-kilometre stretch is completely blocked now. Another flight is being organised to lift stranded around 1000 civilians. Several stranded people have registered themselves with Jammu and Kashmir...
09:12 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Pauri: The cold wave across the country has hit the Uttarakhand polls, Chief Minister BC Khanduri was forced to trek 7 kilometers in snow to file his nomination. And now parties are worried that voters may not turn up for the January-end poll because of the weather conditions. Most of the political parties including the incumbent BJP have already expressed reservations to the election commission about the January-end polling. "We...
06:52 AM, Jan 21, 2012
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