SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people dead and scores missing, authorities said Thursday, as rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village brought at least 300 people to safety.

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.

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,

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

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

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.

Abdullah said that in the next eight weeks, he and his team will go door-to-door to collect signatures in support of restoring statehood.

SRINAGAR- The Jammu and Kashmir government has declared 25 books as ‘forfeited’ under the law for contributing to the radicalization of youth, glorification of terrorists, vilification of security forces, and promotion of alienation among the people. Among them is a book by author Arundhati Roy.