Srinagar Boat

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

Six children, including four children, have died and 10 people are missing after a boat capsized in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday, officials said.

Twenty tourists were rescued by the police after several 'Shikaras' or boats overturned in Srinagar's Dal Lake due to strong winds.

At least four BJP leaders and several camera persons fell in freezing waters of Srinagar's Dal Lake today after a shikara which was part of the party's campaign overturned today. They were rescued soon after.

Diplomats from 25 nations - including some from the European Union - reached Srinagar today to survey the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir six months after the Centre ended the state's special status and bifurcated it into two union territories.

European Union MPs whose visit to Jammu and Kashmir has been criticised by the opposition today said they were not here to interfere in India's politics and "fully supported the country in its efforts for lasting peace and end of terror". The European lawmakers were addressing select media - many, including local Kashmiri newspapers were kept out -...

A group of European Union MPs visited Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday with the opposition raising questions about foreign lawmakers being allowed in the state when Indian political leaders had been barred or turned away from the airport. This is the first such international visit since the government ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir and split...

A group of two or three terrorists is firing at security forces from inside a government institute in Pampore, 15 km from Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. An army soldier is reported injured. Parts of the building suffered damages in a fire.

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi skirting any statement on Article 370, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said BJP is shying away from committing on this contentious issue and is instead keeping its "feet in two boats" in Jammu and Kashmir which normally ends up "sinking".

After undertaking rescue operation in the flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is now focusing on relief operations and is deploying 'boat hospitals' in water logged areas to provide health care facilities to the stranded people.

"I knew these people who work as lifeguards in Lake Geneve and I asked them if I could borrow their boat," Amit Bhat told NDTV.

"For four nights, I waited for a boat to be able to reach my parents"

While the rest of India sleeps, the night in the submerged city of Srinagar is interminably long. It is before first light that group of soldiers board trucks, determined to parlay every working hour into attempts to rescue stranded people, deliver food and water to others.

More than 100 people have died in rain-battered Jammu and Kashmir which is witnessing its worst flood in 50 years. Nearly 10,000 people are stranded across the state where the Army is assisting National Disaster Response Force or NDRF personnel in rescue operation. A boat carrying nine Army jawans capsized today during rescue operation in Pulwama. ...

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

Six children, including four children, have died and 10 people are missing after a boat capsized in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday, officials said.

Twenty tourists were rescued by the police after several 'Shikaras' or boats overturned in Srinagar's Dal Lake due to strong winds.

At least four BJP leaders and several camera persons fell in freezing waters of Srinagar's Dal Lake today after a shikara which was part of the party's campaign overturned today. They were rescued soon after.

Diplomats from 25 nations - including some from the European Union - reached Srinagar today to survey the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir six months after the Centre ended the state's special status and bifurcated it into two union territories.

European Union MPs whose visit to Jammu and Kashmir has been criticised by the opposition today said they were not here to interfere in India's politics and "fully supported the country in its efforts for lasting peace and end of terror". The European lawmakers were addressing select media - many, including local Kashmiri newspapers were kept out -...

A group of European Union MPs visited Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday with the opposition raising questions about foreign lawmakers being allowed in the state when Indian political leaders had been barred or turned away from the airport. This is the first such international visit since the government ended special status to Jammu and Kashmir and split...

A group of two or three terrorists is firing at security forces from inside a government institute in Pampore, 15 km from Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. An army soldier is reported injured. Parts of the building suffered damages in a fire.

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi skirting any statement on Article 370, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said BJP is shying away from committing on this contentious issue and is instead keeping its "feet in two boats" in Jammu and Kashmir which normally ends up "sinking".

After undertaking rescue operation in the flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is now focusing on relief operations and is deploying 'boat hospitals' in water logged areas to provide health care facilities to the stranded people.

"I knew these people who work as lifeguards in Lake Geneve and I asked them if I could borrow their boat," Amit Bhat told NDTV.

"For four nights, I waited for a boat to be able to reach my parents"

While the rest of India sleeps, the night in the submerged city of Srinagar is interminably long. It is before first light that group of soldiers board trucks, determined to parlay every working hour into attempts to rescue stranded people, deliver food and water to others.

More than 100 people have died in rain-battered Jammu and Kashmir which is witnessing its worst flood in 50 years. Nearly 10,000 people are stranded across the state where the Army is assisting National Disaster Response Force or NDRF personnel in rescue operation. A boat carrying nine Army jawans capsized today during rescue operation in Pulwama. ...