At least 60 people were killed, more than 100 injured and another 200 still missing, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah told reporters on Friday. The Himalayas are prone to floods and landslides, but some scientists say the intensity and frequency of these events are increasing due to climate change.

Authorities are searching for missing people in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir after flash floods caused by torrential rains. Teams of disaster management officials, police and

Hundreds more were missing, many of them Hindu pilgrims, after a cloudburst triggered flooding in mountainous terrain.

Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba expressed condolences over the tragic cloudburst-triggered flash floods in J&K’s Kishtwar that killed 60, as CM Omar Abdullah reviewed rescue and relief efforts.

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir have left at least 44 people dead, authorities said Thursday, as rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village brought at least 200 people to safety.

The federally appointed government in the contested region has declared 25 books off limits, part of what many see as a pattern of repression.

As India embraced its 78th Independence Day, its renewed experiment in J&K offers not just a national uplift but a global story: that even the most fragile places can find resilience when governance is steady,

Additional Deputy Commissioner, Kotranka, Dil Mir confirmed the shifting of the affected families to a government accommodation at a safer place to prevent loss of lives.