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Santosh Lad was one of us: Survivors

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Bengaluru: “He was at the wheel driving us and carrying our luggage. We did not feel that he was a minister, but an ordinary worker sent to help us,” survivors of the Uttarakhand floods from Karnatak

Karnataka pilgrims back home, finally

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Bengaluru: Amidst the blackness of death, devastation, misfortune and fear that engulfed the hearts of thousands of helpless people stranded in Uttarakhand, the only thing spurring them onwards was h

1 dies, 3 rescued as pit caves in at Pallikaranai

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Chennai: One worker died and three others were rescued when a large pit they were digging for underground drainage work caved in at Vallal Pari Nagar in Pallikaranai on Tuesday.
While firemen were ab

900 still to be evacuated from Badrinath, grim task of pulling out the dead

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Dehradun: Fifteen days after the Uttarakhand disaster, 900 stranded pilgrims and locals in Badrinath were on Sunday left to be evacuated and 3,000 people remained missing, as authorities grappled wit

Sweet surprise ends the horror for U'khand victims

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Vijayawada: Every crisis, they say, brings with it an opportunity. Scores of pilgrims from AP ‘realised’ that when the tough time they had in the rain ravaged Uttarakhand for days finally brought wit

Uttarakhand disaster: Harsil fully evacuated, 1,400 still stranded in Badrinath

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Gauchar/Dehradun: Thirteen days after the Uttarakhand disaster, rescue workers were on Friday near the end of their mammoth mission with Harsil sector totally evacuated and they made a final push in

Two flights to bring AP victims from Dehradun

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New Delhi: Government of Andhra Pradesh has arranged two flights for today and tomorrow to transport the Uttarakhand flood victim pilgrims from Dehradun to Hyderabad. One flight will leave Dehradun t

In Dehradun: 3-man team from Karnataka

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Bengaluru: A special team from Karnataka, which reached Dehradun on Wednesday, has managed to contact 120 victims from the state who are stranded in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
 
A team of thre

GHMC deploys help after Friday’s downpour

Friday night’s heavy downpour has had the GHMC identify 78 areas prone to inundation with moves afoot to curb water stagnation. GHMC commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu said that 56 extra vehicles with gen

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