The following are top stories of the northern region at 1720 hrs:

The following are top stories of the northern region at 1720 hrs:
DEL11 JK-CRPF-STONES
Srinagar: Police and paramilitary CRPF personnel are being trained in standard operating procedures (SOPs) to help them deal with stone throwing incidents in Kashmir, says CRPF Director General R R Bhatnagar.
DEL5 NIA-J-K-RAIDS
New Delhi/Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducts searches at about a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case against separatists and others.
DES16 UKD-CLOUDBURSTS-TOLL

Dehradun: Two more bodies are recovered from Dharchula area of Pithoragarh district, taking the death toll in the recent cloudbursts there to eight while relief as rescue operations continue in search of the missing.

DES2 JK-HIGHWAY
Jammu: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway resums after remaining suspended for nearly 12 hours due to blocking of the road by huge boulders near Banihal, say officials.
DES5 JK-LD ACCIDENT
Jammu: Three persons, including two students, are killed and 19 others injured as a passenger bus overturns in Samba district on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway, say police.
DES8 GORAKHPUR-HOSPITAL-PEEPAL
Gorakhpur (UP): Some hospitals have formal temples, others small shrines tucked away in corners, but the focus of attention for families desperately seeking succour at the BRD Medical College here is a peepal tree that sprouted just a year ago. By Arunav Sinha

DES14 UP-CHILDREN-MINISTER
Lucknow: Amid allegations that shortage of oxygen cylinders at a Gorakhpur hospital led to the deaths of scores of children, Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh says that loss of life due to such a reason is nothing less than heinous crime.
DES7 UP-COW-NSA
Muzaffarnagar (UP): Three men arrested in June for allegedly slaughtering cows are booked under the National Security Act (NSA), says a senior district official.
DES12 UP-ADITYANATH-FLOODS
Lakhimpur Kheri (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asks the Lakhimpur Kheri district authorities to ensure prompt and effective relief to people hit by floods here and says no laxity will be tolerated.

DES13 UP-MAYAWATI
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati attacks Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on the death of children in Gorakhpur and asks people to understand the "distorted thinking" of BJP leaders.