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Floods

This section is about the history and devastation created by floods. It also carries detailed reportage about the rehabilitation processes and policy interventions to manage if not to prevent the floods.

A Case of Vanishing Tents

Almost three months after devastating floods, tents meant to shelter victims remain unaccounted for in Pampore. With official passing the buck people are forced...

Outbreak

An outbreak of gastroenteritis with cholera like symptoms claimed eight lives, with more than six thousand people needing hospitalisation across five districts of the state. Haroon Mirani reports.
Kids finally making their way to School after winter break culminates

Educational Mess  

This devastating flood has been debilitating for almost every sector. Once the waters receded, people starting clearing their houses and businesses from the thick...

 Chocked Life

Every time it rains Srinagar gets panicky. A few centimeters of rainfall can put life out of gear and turn business streets into rivulets. Syed Asma reports...

Saving Downtown

After the worst floods, the fourth estate is abuzz with the tales of the local heroics. One such unfolded in Noorbagh area where the...

Stop These Purchases 

It has been more than three fortnights since the worst floods hit the nucleus of Kashmir, the Srinagar city. After the people moved away...

History Gagged

The skewed coverage of Kashmir floods by Delhi media generated massive ire and suspicion against journalists, preventing even local media from recording their own...

Where Are Separatists?

This was the signature tune of Delhi’s electronic media for its coverage of Kashmir’s devastating floods: where are the separatists.  Safwat Zargar trekked across...

Kandizal: A Vicious Web

The official blame game after recent floods has once again brought this godforsaken village called Kandizal into focus. But is Kandizal really worth all...

Not Compensated!

Instead of elevating their living standard NMDFC beneficiaries are left struggling to repay the loan to avoid recovery calls. Syed Asma reports the post-flood...

A Dangerous Flood is Coming

Nature intervened at its own last week when it stopped rains shortly before the waters spill over the banks of Jhelum River. But Kashmir...

Flood Victim

The recent flood has decimated me completely. What fell on me was indeed God’s wrath, but how demigods of valley failed to rescue me...

Hydaspes’ Battle

From Sangam in south Kashmir to Asham in north, Jhelum’s serpentine course is literally battling for its space. The river that once witnessed an...

1903’s Great Flood

Kashmir was inundated by a great flood in 1903. Jhelum flowed down with such a huge discharge that parts of M A Road remained...

Flooded Faithfully

It was not individual greed or the policy failure at the highest decision-making levels only that Kashmir’s watercourse is facing barriers. Even the faithful...