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More than 207 people have been killed and over 50,000 pilgrims are stranded due to the flash-floods in Uttarakhand.

- Narendra Modi will visit flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand tomorrow.
- Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari says railways is running free special trains from Haridwar for passengers.
- Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde who is likely to visit the flood-affected Uttarakhand said while 34,000 people have been rescued, 50,000 people are still stranded.
-Forty eight bodies of flood victims were recovered from Haridwar, taking the toll in the rain fury to 190 as operations to rescue over 9,000 stranded in Kedarnath and Badrinath were stepped up with the deployment of 40 helicopters.
- As the magnitude of the tragedy continued to unfold, Uttarakhand Principal Secretary Rakesh Sharma said casualty figures can be "shockingly high".
- In Haridwar, SSP Rajeev Swaroop said 40 bodies of those killed in the flash floods and incessant rains have been found.
- Rescuers were focusing on rain-ravaged Kedarnath area where 250 people are stranded before shifting focus to Badrinath where 9000 people are stuck, officials said.
- Massive rescue operations have been launched in Uttarakhand with 40 helicopters pressed into service to evacuate over 9000 people from Kedarnath and Badrinath. The focus of the rescue operation is worst-hit Kedarnath area where 250 people are stranded.
- The operation would then shift to Badrinath where 9000 people are stuck, they said.
- IAF has deployed 20 Mi-17s and 16 Advanced Light Helicopters in the state where they have evacuated over 1,500 people. Army has also deployed over 8,000 of its troops along with over 3,000 personnel of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
- Headlines Today accessed the latest report of CAG day after highlighting how the autonomous watchdog had warned the central and state governments three years ago against setting up of too many hydroelectricity projects in the disaster-prone hilly state. Both the governments allegedly ignored the CAG warning about how these hydel projects were threatening environmental degradation in Uttarakhand.
- Met department says another cloudburst is likely to hit Uttarakhand again by June 24.
- Rescue teams focusing on evacuating people stuck in jungles between Kedarnath and Gaurikund, says ITBP chief Ajay Chadha.
- More helipads are being being built. Army trying to create a big helipad in Gaurikund to enable MI-17 choppers to land and a small helipad in Rambada near Kedarnath.
- The rescue teams also trying to create more roads to evacuate people.
Venkaiah Naidu, MP and BJP leader on Uttarakhand flash floods:
- I request PM to declare this a national calamity.
- Railways have made good arrangements.
- I will contribute 50 lakhs from my MPLADs for the relief efforts.

- MoS Railways, KSP Reddy says

- We have arranges special trains not just from UK to Delhi but also from Delhi to take rescued people back to their respective home states.
- Hundreds of people already assisted. Thousands more on their way.
- It is hard to estimate exactly how many more.

- A look at the relief aid announced by different state governments to Uttarakhand
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced Rs.1,000 crore.

-State Governments
Bihar                - Rs.5 crore
Odisha              - Rs.5 crore
Uttarakhand      - Rs.5 crore
Uttar Pradesh    - Rs.25 crore
Haryana              - Rs.10 crore
Madhya Pradesh  - Rs.5 crore
Karnataka            - Rs.5 crore
Maharashtra        -Rs.10 crore
Gujarat                - Rs.2 crore
Delhi                  - Rs.10 crore
Chhattisgarh      -Rs.5 crore

Mahindra & Mahindra Group- Rs.1 crore.

-Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh says announced a separate Rs. 340 crore special package for Uttarakhand for constructing village roads in the flood-ravaged hill state.

-NDRF rescued 885 people from Kedarnath and Gaurikund.

-President Pranab Mukherjee has cancelled his visit to Himachal Pradesh next week owing to the natural disaster in the state, an official said on Friday. Mukherjee's four-day visit to Shimla from June 28 has been cancelled. A communication in this regard from Rashtrapati Bhawan reached the state secretariat Thursday, an official said.

-The operation to airlift those stranded in rain-ravaged parts of Himachal's Kinnaur district has also resumed on Friday.

-Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner J.M. Pathania said that the rescue operation launched to airlift tourists stranded in parts of the district for the past five days resumed on Friday.

-He said teams of the National Disaster Management Authority have been sent to the Ropa Kanda area in Kinnaur to rescue 12 shepherds, who were trapped along with their herd.

-Kedarnath and Guptkashi are the worst affected areas by the floods.
- A total of 33,192 people, stranded due to floods in Uttarakhand, were rescued and helicopters -- privately owned and belonging to the Army and Air Force - carried out 90 sorties, airlifting people.
- Seventeen helicopters of the Army and Air Force were involved in the rescue effort, and 11 private ones.
- National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the home ministry release said, rescued 654 and 1,800 people respectively.
- 47 people who were trapped in Guptkashi finally reached reached Haridwar late night at 2 am. They belonged to Nashik.
- Army has rescued 2,000 people on foot and 85 by air from Harsil; 9100 on foot and 126 by by air and 2,500 people on foot from Kedarnath.
- Over 2,500 residents of Gangotri have now landed up at Army's Harsil camp of Garhwal Scouts. These people have lost their homes. 500 more, mostly old & infirm, remain stranded in the village.
- Chhattisgarh Government choppers will also airlift people standed in Uttarkhand from June 21; 4 rescue teams are working in Uttarkhand.
- Chhattisgarh Control Room no - 0942428958, 08435475985.
- Delhi - 011- 46156000, 46156032


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