Many States Reel Under Monsoon Fury, 70 Dead
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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY BJP plans grand I-Day celebrations in J&K 50,000 flags to be distributed to party workers, motorcycle rallies also planned Damini Nath JAMMU Friday prayers Ramping up its Indepen dence Day celebration plans are peaceful after the Centre revoked Arun Jaitley admitted Jammu & Kashmir’s special PEERZADA ASHIQ to AIIMS, stable status on Monday, the Bha SRINAGAR NEW DELHI ratiya Janata Party’s State Most Friday congregations Senior BJP leader Arun unit intends to distribute in Srinagar passed off Jaitley was admitted to the AIIMS here on Friday. He is 50,000 Indian flags to its peacefully, barring a major under the care of the workers to hoist on August procession at Soura against Cardiothoracic and 15. the Centre’s decision to Neurosciences Centre of the “People should know that divest Jammu and Kashmir hospital. According to a it’s a jashn [celebration],” Festival of flags: BJP president Ravinder Raina distributing of its special status. hospital release, Mr. Jaitley is BJP J&K unit president Ra flags at the party office in Jammu on Friday. * DAMINI NATH An official said stone REPORT ON PAGE9 hemodynamically stable. vinder Raina told party throwing started at Soura, Prime Minister Narendra workers, who had gathered This is the first time that we at the party office, Mr. Raina Nowshera, Rambagh, Modi and other BJP leaders, at the office here on Friday are out of the shackles of led those who had gathered Barzalla and Rainawari after including Amit Shah and as he distributed flags to slavery,” said Mr. Raina. through chants of Jahaan the prayers. Harsh Vardhan, visited Mr. them. With the government re hue balidaan Mookerjee, At the end of the Many States reel under Jaitley at the hospital. As Mr. Raina and the BJP voking provisions under Ar voh Kashmir hamara hai procession from Soura to Ali NEWS Ī PAGE 12 made preparations for mo ticle 370 of the Constitution, (Where Syama Prasad Moo Jan Road, 4,000 people DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD torcycle rallies and pro Jammu & Kashmir’s consti kerjee laid down his life, clashed with security men grammes on August 15, large tution and flag have been that Kashmir is ours). Bhara for hours. Several mosques monsoon fury, 70 dead parts of Jammu and Kash scrapped. “We will hoist the tiya Jana Sangh founder S.P. in Pulwama passed mir remained under curfew tricolour in every panchayat Mookerjee, who had op resolutions against the like conditions for the fifth and ward,” he said. posed Article 370, had died dilution of Article 370. 28 killed in Kerala, seven die in Karnataka’s Kodagu day. Flags were being flown in a detainee of the Sheikh Ab The Army had warned For the BJP, however, it from Delhi to Jammu, Srina dullah government in Kash mosques in Kulgam against Special Correspondent was time to celebrate. “This gar and Leh. mir in 1953. political sermons. A NEW DELHI time, Independence Day is While interacting with a policeman, Nasir Ahmed, The depression that has jashn-e-azaadi for the peo group of sarpanchs and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 was beaten up by a mob in caused torrential rainfall ple of Jammu and Kashmir. handing over flags to them SHOCK IN VALLEY Ī PAGE 13 Hawal. mainly in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Na du, claiming at least 70 lives and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of peo Amid lockdown, locals queue up for a phone call ple, is expected to abate from Saturday, the chief of the India Meteorological De Srinagar residents wait for hours at a government office to talk to kin outside State on a mobile phone partment (IMD) said on Friday. Vijaita Singh “Except for Rajasthan, Assessing loss: Farmers surveying the damage to their crops Srinagar TV channels turn town criers there will be a marked re at a village in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. * M . SATHYAMOORTHY There were tears of both an duction in rain from tomor ger and relief at a govern Special correspondent ceased told The Hindu that row [Saturday]. While these feared trapped in a massive and Malappuram, he said. ment office in the heart of Srinagar just eight people attended are extremely heavy rains, landslip. “Three bodies have The IMD has issued red Srinagar, where people had With communication lines the burial, only after plead they are nowhere close to re been recovered,” he said af alerts in seven districts — Er come to make a solitary shut for five days now, peo ing for permission before the cord rainfall that these ter a review meeting. nakulam, Idukki, Palakkad, phone call to their loved ple in Kashmir are using lo security forces on the even States have witnessed in the The bodies of nine people Malappuram, Kozhikode, ones living outside the State. cal TV channels to announce ing of August 6. past,” M. Mohapatra, Direc were recovered from Meppa Wayanad and Kannur — for As the Kashmir Valley re deaths and other news. The local channels have torGeneral, IMD, told The di, Wayanad district, the site Saturday. mained under a lockdown The 24X7 Chinar Gold become the main communi Hindu. of a second landslip. “It is In Karnataka, mudslides for the fifth day, the adminis music cable channel had a cation source to announce Extremely heavy rain bat not yet clear how many peo and flash floods in Kodagu tration made some arrange scroll running on top: “Na cancellations of weddings. tered the western coastal ple were affected... Rescue district resulted in seven ments for residents to make zeer Ahmad Akhoon of Sri “Attention: we regret that States and many parts of the operations using excavators deaths in 24 hours, and eight calls. Three personal mobile nagar’s Pather Masjid is no all invitations of my son Ji Western Ghats on Thursday are in progress. Eleven people were reported mis phones of officials working more. All relatives watching bran Javed Buch’s wedding at night, killing 28 persons in deaths have been reported sing. There was one rainre at the Tankipora office were this are intimated about it.” Hazratbal area stand can central and northern dis in Wayanad district so far,” lated death in Mysuru dis turned into helplines. Resi Cherished hellos: People waiting to make a call to their loved A close relative of the de celled,” one scroll read. tricts of Kerala and prompt Mr. Vijayan said. trict. Rain intensified in the * VIJAITA SINGH ing the evacuation of nearly As of Friday, 64,103 peo southern districts on Friday dents swarmed the office, ones in Srinagar on Friday. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC with some waiting for more 65,000 people. ple had been shifted to 738 but abated in the north Kar than six hours for their turn. they wanted to call. Paper said Feroze Ansari, a local a Kashmiri Pandit living in ney,” said Ms. Eijaz, who had camps in the floodhit dis nataka districts. The administration had slips were handed out as to shopkeeper. Srinagar. been waiting for over three Rescue under way tricts. Thirteen dams — se shared the three numbers on kens. “There are more than C.L. Vishen had had a Rashida Eijaz burst into hours. Sadiq Bhatt, an offi Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi ven maintained by the Kera CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 local cable channels. 200 people who have regis death in the family and need tears at the prospect of a cial at the DC’s office man jayan said in Thiruvanan la State Electricity Board SEVEN KILLED, 35,000 RESCUED A plastic chair and a table tered since 9 a.m. and only ed to speak to relatives in chance to speak to her ning one of the lines, said the thapuram on Friday that at and six by the Water Re IN KODAGU Ī PAGE 8 had been placed on the lawn 23 have been able to speak as New Delhi. daughter. “She is in Delhi to numbers had been shared on Kavalappara, near Nilambur sources Department — were AT LEAST 40 FEARED TRAPPED at the administrative com of now, it’s already 12 p.m. “I have come here so that I pursue a course for two social media on Thursday in Malappuram district, res opened. Twelve teams of the IN MALAPPURAM Ī PAGE 8 plex where people queued You can calculate how long can ask when are the rituals months. My only worry is night and that calls hadn’t cue workers were struggling NDRF were deployed and NAVY RESCUES 12 STRANDED up to register the numbers we have to wait here now,” planned,” said Prof. Vishen, what if she runs out of mo stopped coming since then. to trace at least 40 people Army units rushed to Idukki NEAR POLAVARAM DAM Ī PAGE 8 Court frames charges Supreme Court upholds law empowering homebuyers DMK bags Vellore by a against Sengar, coaccused They can start bankruptcy proceedings against errant builders, rules threemember Bench slender margin MLA will also be tried under POCSO Act Krishnadas Rajagopal man confirmed the constitu their dreams of owning a project.