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From farmers’ protest to floods: Punjab’s blueprint of resistance lives on

Gurdaspur is usually slow, almost sleepy, when the skies above are not lit with drones from across the border. But the rains came hard, and with them the Majha belt – Ajnala, Ferozepur, Fazilka – was underwater in a day. By the second, cavalcades of Fortuners and Hiluxes rolled in,…

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‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades

Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops

The Guardian - UK

Has India ‘weaponised water’ to deliberately flood Pakistan?

Pakistan blames India for floods that have killed hundreds, but experts urge focus on climate change.

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Severe flooding in Pakistan forces 500,000 people to evacuate

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The Independent UK

Flood threat rises as rain lashes India and Pakistan

New spell of monsoon rains expected to persist for another 24-48 hours.

Al Jazeera

Half a million people forced to flee homes after flooding in Pakistan’s Punjab

The latest evacuations bring the total number of people displaced since last month to 1.8 million, officials say

The Independent UK

Flood alert in India’s capital as river Yamuna breaches danger mark

Nearly 300,000 people were evacuated in the past 48 hours across the border in Pakistan’s Punjab province

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Punjab faces worst floods in decades as heavy rains continue

Torrential rains and overflowing rivers have caused devastating floods across northern India, killing at least 30 people in Punjab.

Euronews

Mass evacuations in Pakistan’s flooded Punjab hit 300,000 in 48 hours

Pakistan began evacuations last month after India released water from overflowing dams into low-lying border regions.

Al Jazeera

Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest

One of South Asian nation’s top grain-producing states is reeling from its worst floods in nearly four decades

The Independent UK

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India

Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million

The Independent UK

Punjab’s darkest floods in 3 decades: As governance failures drown villages, stories of hope surface

At least 30 dead. Over 2.56 lakh people affected. Close to 1,400 villages inundated. Nearly 3 lakh acres of crops submerged. Around Rs 50,000 crore in losses from paddy crops alone. All of Punjab’s 23 districts hit – at least half of them seeing heavy damage.

Newslaundry

Pakistan uses drones to help rescuers evacuate thousands as floods devastate Punjab

Emergency workers in Pakistan's Punjab province have used drones to find people stranded by massive floods

The Independent UK

‘Biggest flood in Punjab’s history’ affects over 2 million people in Pakistan

Minister says first time Sutlej, Chenab and Ravi rivers carrying such high levels of water

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Al Jazeera

Half a million people stranded by heavy flooding evacuated in Pakistan

In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.

The Guardian - UK

‘The water left nothing’: Pakistan’s Punjab province reels from deadly floods

Fears of disease as more than 1,400 villages under water after three large rivers overflow their banks

International Business Times

Smog Then Floods: Pakistani Families 'Can't Catch A Break'

Perched on her neighbour's rooftop, Ghulam Bano gazes down at the remains of her home, submerged in murky, foul-smelling floodwater that has engulfed much of Pakistan's Punjab region.

The Independent UK

Floods in Pakistan's Punjab leave many without aid as rescuers race to evacuate

Rescuers in Pakistan have been racing to evacuate tens of thousands of people stranded by floods in Punjab province

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'Ruins': Pakistan's Punjab Reels From Flood Surge

Orange-vested rescue teams rowed through streets transformed into muddy rivers in Pakistan's Punjab province on Thursday, helping to pluck people and their livestock from flooded villages.

The Independent UK

Floods affect 1.2 million, displace nearly 250,000 in eastern Pakistan

Rescuers in Pakistan's Punjab province are racing to reach stranded families after heavy rain and water from overflowing dams in India caused major rivers to burst their banks

The Independent UK

Flash floods leave 32 dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir as over 150,000 are displaced in Punjab

Indian media reports say intense rains have lashed parts of Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Jammu region, leaving at least 32 people dead and many missing following a landslide on a Hindu pilgrimage route

Euronews

Evacuations under way in eastern Pakistan as India releases water from swollen rivers

The move came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, marking the first public diplomatic contact between the two nuclear-armed rivals in months.

The Independent UK

Jaswinder Bhalla death: Indian comedy icon dies aged 65

Veteran performer was known for his satirical work

Newslaundry

Days after cops assault journalist, NHRC seeks report from Punjab DGP

The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of the assault of a journalist by two policemen in Gurdaspur’s Batala and sought a detailed report from the Punjab DGP within two weeks.

Newslaundry

India is historical, Bharat is mythical: Aatish Taseer

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

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