Two days after he advised VIPs not to visit Uttarakhand, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde today did a U-turn saying that anyone, including Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, could go to the rain-ravaged state now as the situation has changed there.

Amid war of words between Congress and BJP over reports that Narendra Modi had rescued 15,000 Gujaratis from Uttarakhand, BJP chief Rajnath Singh today said the Gujarat chief minister never gave such a statement.

An overcast sky and low visibility at places today did not come in the way of air rescue operations in rain-hit Uttarakhand, even though a thin veil of early morning fog briefly delayed flight of choppers from Sahasradhara helipad and Jollygrant airport.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and all his cabinet colleagues will donate their one-month salary to the relief and rehabilitation efforts in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand.
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New Delhi: The devastation caused by torrential rains that lashed Uttarakhand earlier this month is expected to cause a loss of Rs 12,000 crore to the state's tourism industry in the current fiscal,

“I need to see you boys smiling,” IAF chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne said this to his men as he touched down at the airbase where the mood was sombre after the ill-fated Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed killing 20 people on-board.

Puducherry: Three of the 49 pilgrims from Puducherry, who had fallen ill due to adverse weather conditions in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand, were airlifted from Harsil to Chamoli from where they were take

 
New Delhi: Air Chief Marshal N.A.K Browne on Wednesday said that all the 19 bodies of those who died in a horrific air crash in Uttarakhand on Tuesday were recovered.
 
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New Delhi: Rescuers on Tuesday evacuated 2,403 pilgrims stranded in the mountainous regions of flood-hit Uttarakhand even as 20 persons, including IAF and paramilitary personnel, were feared killed

 
New Delhi: In a horrific air-crash, 20 people, including personnel from the Indian Air Force, National Disaster Response Force and the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police were feared dead in an