A painting exhibition here has generated Rs.60,000 for Jammu and Kashmir flood victims and the money would be sent to the prime minister's relief fund, organisers said Tuesday.


Art exhibition generates Rs.60,000 for Kashmir flood victims


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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said the Congress-NCP split has not come about because of Rahul Gandhi or her.


Congress-NCP split not due to Rahul or me: Sonia


Despite the extensive damage due to unprecedented floods earlier this month, the State Bank of India (SBI) has made 63 out of their 67 branches fully functional in Kashmir Valley, bank officials said here Monday.


SBI makes 63 branches functional in flood-hit Kashmir Valley


Jammu and Kashmir will submit a memorandum of losses amounting to Rs.1,00,000 crore to the central government as the recent devastating floods have caused colossal damage to property besides claiming more than 280 lives, a top official said here Monday.


Jammu & Kashmir to submit list of losses to Centre


Even three weeks after unprecedented floods ravaged the Kashmir Valley, thousands here are not sure if they will be in a position to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha a week from now.


Can Kashmiris rescued from inundated areas celebrate Eid?


In its special sanitation drive after the recent devastating floods, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has removed 17,360 tonnes of garbage from the city, officials said here Sunday.


17,360 tonnes of flood garbage removed from Srinagar


They barely manage to eke out a living but are yet painting to live out their dreams and to raise money for the victims of the Kashmir floods.


Street children fill canvas to help Kashmir flood victims


The Jammu and Kashmir government Saturday said that 200 dewatering pumps are being used to pump out stagnant flood water from the inundated areas of Srinagar city.


Srinagar floods: 200 dewatering pumps working 24x7


Taking a swipe at Pakistan for raking up the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said that this is the time to provide succour to people of flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, and India had offered help with flood relief to Pakistani Kashmir.


This is time to help flood-ravaged Kashmir, Modi tells Pakistan


Pakistan's raking up Kashmir at the UN General Assembly is "predictable" and an "old song" which the world has stopped listening to, said Indian experts and politicians of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's statement that Kashmir is a "core issue" which needs to be resolved and that the UN must intervene in the "dispute".


'Pakistan raking up old song world has stopped listening to'


Two people were killed Saturday and eight injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district.


Two killed, eight injured in Udhampur accident


Even after three weeks of an unprecedented flood in the Kashmir Valley, summer capital Srinagar's once busiest markets and streets were deserted Saturday.


Did ghosts follow floods to haunt Srinagar's business hubs?


Authorities Friday said that 107 roads damaged by floods and landslides in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir have been restored for traffic.


107 flood-damaged roads restored in Kashmir


A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was seriously injured in a hit and run attack by separatist guerrillas here Friday and succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, police said.


CRPF trooper killed in Srinagar


As many as 57 passengers belonging to Pakistan-administered-Kashmir travelled in the special Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus that resumed its run Friday after the recent floods in the Valley.


Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus takes 57 passengers across LoC


The recent massive floods in Kashmir were not due to the failure of the flood warning system but because of extremely heavy rain, the water resources ministry said Friday.


Official blames rain, not system failure for Kashmir floods


The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday issued an order permitting self-certification by NGOs/groups/individuals to avail tax exemption for relief material brought from outside for flood victims in the state.


Kashmir permits self-certification to avail tax waiver on flood relief


In its ongoing efforts to provide assistance to the flood hit victims of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here has dispatched the first lot of six high power, sophisticated de-watering pumps to the state.


Delhi airport extends support to Kashmir flood victims


The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a five-member committee that will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and report to the court.


SC sets up panel to assess Jammu and Kashmir floods


Bhutan's king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Wednesday conveyed his deepest condolences to the people of Jammu and Kashmir over the loss of lives and damage caused by floods in the state.


Bhutan king condoles deaths in Kashmir floods


AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has written to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asking if his party could be of more help to the flood-affected people of the state besides the donations made by the party's Delhi lawmakers from their area development fund.

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