EVENING NEWS (Sponsored By Royal Motors, Jammu) * Aircel has offered free calls to all its postpaid and prepaid Jammu and Kashmir customers for the next two days– September 10 and 11 as a support towards the natural calamity being faced there. * The Class work in the Jammu University will remain suspended till 12th September 2014. * About four lakh people were still stranded and desperate for help today in flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley where heavy rains have eased to help scale up the massive multi-agency rescue and relief efforts in which over 47,000 people have been safely evacuated. * Describing the current floods in the State as the worst in 109 years, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the Government will reach out to all people for rescuing them and then rehabilitate them. * The Army today said it has rescued a 28-member Pakistani golf team and the Ambassador of Nepal from the flood-affected areas of Srinagar. * Telecom services in the flood-hit Kashmir valley are slowly being restored with operators resuming network connectivity in various parts of the region. * Amid unprecedented rains and floods in Jammu and Kashmir, the Karnataka Government had sent top officials * With Brent crude oil prices dipping below USD 100 per barrel, petrol prices may be cut by Re 1 a litre and there is also a likelihood of first reduction in diesel rates in seven years. * Air India today announced it will operate two additional flights to Srinagar tomorrow and provide free passage to tourists stranded in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir as several chopper firms joined the multi-agency rescue and relief operations there. * Germany today offered financial assistance of Rs 25 lakh to a hospital in Baramulla to help flood-affected people in Kashmir. * Thanks to distress calls received on social media applications such as WhatsApp and Facebook, the Army has been able to save a nine-month pregnant woman stranded on the third floor of a building in a locality in Srinagar marooned in 12-13 ft water. * As Kashmir valley remains under flood water, Air India has decided to ferry free of cost tourists trapped in Srinagar while Gujarat and Bihar Governments are sending 75,000 food and dry food packets for affected people. * As Kashmir valley remains under flood water, Air India has decided to ferry free of cost tourists trapped in Srinagar. * Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today announced an assistance of Rs five crore for the flood victims of Jammu and Kashmir. * Uttar Pradesh government has announced an assistance of Rs 20 crore to flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, and expressed solidarity with flood-affected people in the hour of crisis. #KashmirFloods #Jammu
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:25:32 +0000
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