| People asked to move to safer places |
 With rain returning in Kashmir Valley again from late last night, authorities have issued warning and asked people falling in avalanche prone area to shift to safer places as a precautionary measure to avoid any mishap. According to an official spokesman the incessant rains and melting of snow coupled with rise in temperatures has increased the chances of landslides and erosion of land masses in all areas which are sloppy and hilly in nature adding the weather outlook for April 1 to 3 may further aggravate the situation. Meanwhile, GoC, 15 Corps Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha met J&K Governor N.N. Vohra, at the Raj Bhavan and briefed the Governor in detail about the flood situation and the steps being taken to support the Civil Administration in this regard. AIR correspondent reports that in Chadoora tehsil of District Badgam , three residential houses suffered extensive damages while some houses suffered minor damages due to caving in of earth . Keeping in view the possibility of more rains, the authorities have not withdrawn the flood alert despite improvement in the water level. The government has already sought assistance from the Army to meet any eventuality. A number of NDRF team have already arrived Srinagar to conduct rescue operation in case of emergency. Authorities have set up Control Rooms at all district headquarters to take calls from the general public about flood situation. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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