Nineteen persons were killed and many others injured on Friday as dozens of houses in a number of villages caved in following a cloudburst in Ukhimath area of Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag district.

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The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will on Tuesday visit devastated Leh in Jammu and Kashmir that was hit by flash floods caused by a cloudburst, an official said here on Sunday.

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As rescue and relief efforts continued on war-footing for the fourth day on Monday in cloudburst-hit Leh region, the death toll climbed to 147 while nearly 500 people, including two French nationals,

Srinagar, Aug. 7: The Leh cloudburst toll rose to 132 as more bodies were found lying beneath the debris of flattened homes and other buildings on Saturday.

The authorities fear the figure could cros

Over 500 people, including a Spanish tourist, were missing on Sunday, two days after a cloudburst caused flash floods in Leh town, leading to widespread destruction and claiming 132 lives.

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Heavy rains and bad weather on Saturday morning forced authorities to suspend rescue and relief work in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh town where at least 115 people were killed and over 300 injured in massive flash floods triggered by a cloudburst.

With the recovery of more bodies, the toll in the cloudburst here on Saturday climbed to 130 even as 600 more are feared washed away in the calamity that was followed by torrential rains and flash flo

Flash floods triggered by a cloudburst has flooded the Kralpora area of frontier Kupwara district in North Kashmir, police said on Saturday.

The cloudburst which occurred on Friday flooded various a

An Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief material from Chandigarh on Saturday made a safe landing in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh town that was lashed by massive flash floods triggered by a cloudburst.