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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.

Floating On Hope

It took courage and creativity to transform plastic bottles, empty water-tanks, wood planks, mattresses etc, to float thousands of marooned people to safety. Safwat...

On duty!

When almost entire private and government health sector inundated by floods, doctors at SKIMS and JLNM Hospital kept the hopes afloat. Syed Asma reports    September 6,...

Comforting Orphans

Stranded by Jhelum, saved by a brave-heart and comforted by women, orphans of Bemina’s orphanage had their share of woes in recent floods. Bilal...

Will the life really go on?

By: Ambreen Rasool -- And the life goes on, they say. Just back from Kashmir, the place where I have left my heart forever and the place...

Getting Back into Seinweir

Decades after late Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad converted low-lying garden Seinwari into Sonawari for habitation, an overflowing Jhelum found its way in. It took villagers 25...

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...

Salvaging Lives

A youth from Srinagar’s Balgarden locality rescued a pregnant lady, army rescuers, paramilitary personnel; arranged relief material for hundreds inside a Batamaloo relief camp and...

Elite driven!

Like air rescue teams who handpicked victims during recent floods Omar’s cabinet too fell for elite trap while deciding future of students across Kashmir....

7 Steps To Recovery

With assembly polls round the corner, there is utmost urgency in managing the basic spadework to help flood-devastated Kashmir get back on recovery track....

A Survival Report

Faced with certain death in deluged Rajbagh ETV’s Rifat Abdullah recorded his last message after dialling his high-end contacts for help turned futile. Syed...

What Made September 7 Floods So Bad?

by Athar Parvaiz It has been over a month since a massive flood left the central and southern areas of Kashmir devastated killing 281 people...

Flood From My Window

When flood deserted Srinagar’s Press Enclave, a lady stayed back only to witness the devastating drive of Jhelum around. A government official by profession,...

Bahadur on Tree!

Extreme ground situations, especially the floods, have sent people climbing over trees. In Samboora, a soldier from Tral climb up a tree but floods...

Rs: 1000000000000 Setback!

The most distressing part of the crisis is not only that the entire business is smashed but the debilitating impact it has on the...

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...