A cloudburst occurred tonight in Baltal near the base camp of Amarnath Yatra in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district but all pilgrims are reported to be safe, police said. 

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today said he was "touched" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "graciousness" in praising him for his Oxford Debate speech. 

Amid its fierce tussle with the Delhi police, the Aam Aadmi Party government today made a stinging attack on it and the Centre, saying the capital has become a "police state" as people in various parts of the city were "terrified" because of excesses by the cops.

Talking about "police brutality" on AAP protesters in Anand Parbat area on July 21, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the party workers were beaten up "mercilessly" by Delhi police personnel which "reflected state of affairs". "Delhi has become a police state. We use to hear about torture meted out to Naxalites and terrorists. The same treatment is meted out to AAP workers. People are terrified," Sisodia during an interaction with protesters who sustained injuries during the protest.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a number of AAP leaders and a select group journalists were also present. The victims bared wounds of alleged police brutality to those present and some of them even broke down. "We will have to fight unitedly. We will explore all options," said Kejriwal, assuring them of justice.

The face-off between the Delhi police and AAP government has intensified, particularly after the murder of a 19-year-old girl in Anand Parbat area. The AAP government had accused the police of not probing the case "effectively".

In his strongest assertion amid his ongoing tussle with the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation, top cop B S Bassi today said it would be a "very unfortunate" day in the history of the capital if the Delhi police comes under the city government and its functioning under the Centre's jurisdiction was "perfect".   

"It will be a very unfortunate day in the history of Delhi. As a citizen of Delhi I can say it would be a bad fortune for Delhi. They (AAP) have the right to make apolitical demand. It is political posturing. And as a citizen of Delhi I have the right to say this is not right for Delhi citizens," Bassi said.   

Justifying his point, he said that under the present arrangement where it is under the Union government, it does not have to face any "local vested interest" as the prime minister or home minister have no stake.   

"The present system is the best. No prime minister has any vested interest in Delhi unless belongs to Delhi. I have not seen any PM having any local interest in Delhi during my long career. Every prime minister would want progress of Delhi but he will not have any local vested interest. Generally any home minister also will not have any local vested interest in Delhi," he told PTI in an interview.

World Wrestling Entertainment has fired Hulk Hogan, the company confirmed to E! in a statement.

"WWE terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan)," the statement read.

"WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide."

The Daily Beast reported that Hogan was fired following the emergence of alleged racially tinged comments by the wrestler.

WWE has erased all mention of the wrestler from its site. Web pages which recently featured videos, biography and imagery of the 61-year-old star have been pulled from the organization's site.

Just in: "If police comes under city government, it'll be a very unfortunate day in the history of Delhi," top cop BS Bassi tells PTI. 

Angry with repeated disruptions in the assembly, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah flung a copy of the budget into the well of the House today. The ruling Congress and opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party were involved in heated arguments over the alleged cut in funding of centrally sponsored schemes.

Trouble began when the chief minister said that the government has not been able to achieve 100 per cent spending of total budget plan due to alleged reduction of Rs 4,690 crore in grants from the Centre.

The BJP members objected to it, accusing the chief minister of giving wrong information, which led to a war of words from both sides.

Vexed over the delay in implementation of One Rank One Pension scheme, a group of ex-servicemen has decided to greet Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar with black flags when he arrives on a visit in Chandigarh tomorrow.

"We will go ahead with our plan to show black flags to the minister for his failure to have already approved the OROP scheme," said Brigadier (Retd) Harwant Singh, representative of the United Front of Ex-Servicemen.

"The defence minister has often mouthed platitudes for soon implementing OROP but has not given a firm date when that 'soon' would arrive," he said. Parrikar is scheduled to visit Mohali tomorrow for the inauguration of 'Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute', set up by the Punjab government to impart specialised training exclusively to female aspirants across the state to join the National Defence Academy in the country.

Singh said about 500-600 army men under the banner of United Front of Ex-Servicemen ill assemble at Gurudwara 'Singh Shaheedaan', Sohana in Mohali and from there they would move towards the inauguration site.

"Our anger is not against any person, but against the government's policy of enormous delay in implementing OROP. We will remain peaceful and disciplined during the said demonstration," he said.

B Raman's unpublished column from 2007 on Yakub Memon, which we carried yesterday, has been covered by other media as well. 

The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) today alleged in the Bombay High Court that Nestle India had violated laws in the country by producing Maggi with lead content more than permissible limits.


"The company had acted in an untrustworthy manner...they had the capacity to produce a safe product but had not done so," Mahmood Pracha, Counsel for FSSAI's CEO, argued before a bench of Justices V M Kanade and B P Colabawalla.


The court was hearing a petition filed by Nestle India against FSSAI's June 5 order banning nine variants of Maggi and Maharashtra government's order prohibiting their sale. Even in foreign countries where Maggi was found to be of sub-standard quality, the product had been banned, said Pracha who cited an instance of the Philippines where it was withdrawn.

Yet another development in the never-ending battle between the Delhi government and Delhi Lt Lieutenant Governor. Najeeb Jung writes to Chief Minister Kejriwal saying his comments on PM Modi are inappropriate. Jung tells Kejriwal that the tone of his letter 'leaves him disappointed'. He also said that the inappropriate references to PM Modi reflects poorly on any chief minister. The Lt governor said the "letter leads to unsavory and unavoidable comments not just within country but also overseas."


In a letter to Jung, yesterday, the Aam Aadmi Party chief said the LG was working at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to weaken the Delhi government. Kejriwal wrote the letter a day after Jung dismissed AAP nominee Swati Maliwal's appointment as chief of the Delhi Commission for Women as lacking legal sanctity.


"The LG says he himself is the Delhi government. How can one individual claim to be the 'government'? If that were the case, there would be dictatorship in Delhi. The 'Delhi government' stands for the elected government, not an individual," the letter said.

"The reality is the LG is not doing this on his own. He is doing all this at the instance of the PM. Even the home ministry is increasingly become helpless before the prime minister's office."


Jung said he would ensure that the letter to Kejriwal is put in public domain since that is what the CM has done.

Bail plea of Mumbai lawyer Jahnvi Gadkar, accused of running over two persons under the influence of alcohol, rejected again.


This was her second bail application that was rejected by the Kurla metropolitan magistrate's court. Her first plea was turned down on June 10. Gadkar had moved the second bail plea on July 16. Her lawyer had said in the bail application the investigation in the case was over and hence she could be granted the relief.


In the early hours of June 10, an Audi driven by Gadkar rammed a taxi, resulting in the death of two persons, including the taxi driver on the Eastern Freeway in Mumbai.

The deceased were identified as Mohammed Abdul Sayyad (55) and Mohammed Salim Sabuwala (50).

A sub-inspector is making headlines for unzipping his fly and making an obscene gesture to a journalist. The incident happened at near a local police station in Punaloor, Kerala, reports ABP News.

The Centre has approved a Rs 2,801 crore relief package for hailstorm-affected farmers in Uttar Pradesh. This is the second reprieve for farmers hit by unseasonal rain and storms. In April Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that compensation for crop damage was raised and it will would be easier to claim financial support from the government.


"The amount of compensation has been increased to 1.5 times. If earlier a farmer was getting Rs. 100 as compensation, now he will get Rs. 150, if it was Rs. 1 lakh, he will get Rs. 1.5 lakh... a 50 per cent increase," the prime minister had said.


The Centre's announcement comes hours after Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh's comments today that love affairs and impotency caused the death of more than 1,400 farmers in India this year.

The New York Times made small but significant changes to an exclusive reportabout a potential criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's State Department email account late Thursday night, but provided no notification of or explanation for of the changes. Read more

Full transcript of BBC interview with President Barack Obama.  Read

Julian Barnes's magnificent essay on Vincent Van Gogh is a must read. 

The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert about a possible attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi using a human bomb either during his visit to Patna or at the public rally he is scheduled to attend in Muzaffarpur on July 25.

Read MI Khan's report on Rediff.com.

Low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd said on Friday it was in "exploratory and preliminary stage" talks with potential investors who have shown an interest in putting money into the airline." Read more

The manner in which Delhi is making such big political and diplomatic overtures to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at the present juncture in the Middle Easts politics can be seen as conveying a signal of displeasure to Tehran for some obscure reasons that it can not articulate publicly yet, or, alternatively, could be a deliberate policy statement. More likely, it is a combination of both. Read

Undaunted by an online campaign urging boycott of Kerala over its recent decision to cull dangerous stray dogs, the government today said doing away with such stray animals would only make the state more 'tourist-friendly'.


"Kerala Tourism has no worries over the online campaign, claimed to be by a group of animal buffs urging boycott of the state," its Secretary G Kamala Vardhana Rao said. An online campaign under the titles '#Boycott Kerala', #Kerala Dog Culling', 'Worldwide Protest Against Mass Killing of Dogs in Kerala', started by some unknown persons, is going viral in the social media.


"Hit Kerala where it hurts - their tourism. Write letters, tweet, share on FB and Instagram. Do whatever it takes to speak up for these poor dogs. We will not stop till Kerala Govt stops this mass slaughter," the campaigners said in the facebook page of #Boycott Kerala'.

Rahul Gandhi on Radha Mohan Singh's: I advice PM to call his ministers and ask them to visit farmers' houses and see what's going on.

In a shocking statement that has put the Bharatiya Janata Party, already on the backfoot after the Lalit Modi controversy and the Vyapam scam, in a spot, Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh on Friday said the it was love affairs or impotency that caused the death of more than 1,400 farmers in India this year.

The Supreme Court of India on Friday refused to entertain a plea of Islamic organisations which contended that Muslim girl students be allowed to wear headscarf during CBSE's All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) exam.


The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu while rejecting the plea by Students Islamic Organisation of India, said: "If you appear in an examination without a scarf, your faith will not disappear."Describing the plea as "nothing but an ego", the court said that candidates can wear the headscarf after the exam is over.

In a shocking statement that has put the Bharatiya Janata Party, already on the backfoot after the Lalit Modi controversy and the Vyapam scam, in a spot, Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh on Friday said the it was love affairs or impotency that caused the death of more than 1,400 farmers in India this year.


In a written reply in Rajya Sabha to a question of what has caused the death of so many farmers in India, Singh said, "According to the National Crime Records Bureau, causes of (farmer) suicides include family problems, illness, drugs... dowry, love affairs and impotency." The minister, however, did not rule out debt as one of the reasons.


Boo the minister here

A shocked and aggrieved Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand have moved the Bombay High Court soon after her anticipatory bail application was rejected by a CBI court.


Aggrieved by the order, Setalvad told the CBI court that "she was shocked and aggrieved by the judgement and she believes that it is done to intimidate and possibly eliminate us by powers in Delhi."


The CBI on July 8 registered a case against Setalvad and her husband and subsequently raided their home and offices a week later. The agency is probing into whether Setalvad's non-governmental organisation Sabrang received funding from the United States-based Ford Foundation without government permission.


Also read: Wines, Mills & Boon and more: Is this what Teesta did with charity funds?

Triggering controversy over capital punishment to Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today sought to know whether the perpetrators of demolition of disputed structure in Ayodhya, communal riots of Mumbai and Gujarat and other such sensational cases would get a similar punishment.


"Why have not perpetrators of demolition of Babri Masjid been convicted and will they also be given capital punishment as that is the original sin?" the Hyderabad MP said while addressing a gathering here. Alleging that the recommendations of Sri Krishna Commission have been put in cold storage both by the BJP-Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP governments in Maharashtra, he wondered how many have been convicted in the Mumbai riots of December, 1992 and January, 1993.


"1,000 people killed in communal riots of December, 1992 and January, 1993. How many are convicted?" he asked. "Will Sadhvi Pragya, Col. Purohit and Swami Aseemanand, whose name cropped up in connection with Malegaon blasts, would get capital punishment," he said, adding "this is up to NIA to prove to courts."


"Rajiv Gandhi and Beant Singh killers have backing of respective political parties, that is why they have not been given capital punishment," Owaisi said.

A Mumbai CBI court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by human rights activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand. Teesta is now expected to appeal to the High Court.


The couple moved for relief against likely arrest after the CBI raided their house and offices in Juhu on July 14. The CBI prosecutor opposed their plea on the ground that it was a serious crime that requires their custodial interrogation.


The crime he referred to was an FIR lodged against her, Anand and one more person for alleged violations of the foreign funding law.


The FIR registered by the CBI is against directors of Sabrang Communications and Publishing Pvt Ltd -- Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and Peshimam Gulam Mohammed for alleged violation of provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act by conspiring to receive funds from abroad without permission from the home ministry.

This is what the Teesta Setalvad's CJP and the Sabrang Trust say on the Gujarat police's claims, in a just-released press release. Read

In an aggressive posturing that reflects increasing strains in partnership with the BJP, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today said he was determined to bring his party to power on its own in Maharashtra. He also dubbed Sharad Pawar-led NCP as "a shameless party" for offering unsolicited support to BJP after the Assembly elections.


"It is my dream that there should be only Shiv Sena's rule in Maharashtra in the future. Snatching this power for the Sena is not only my dream, but my resolve. Every Shiv Sainik (party volunteer) dreams of this and soon the whole Maharashtra will dream of this," Thackeray said in an interview to Sena MP Sanjay Raut in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'. Directing his ire at the NCP for pledging support to the BJP to form government in the post-poll scenario, he said, "NCP is a shameless party. Inspite of so much being said about them, they offered support (to BJP) without being asked for. It wasn't the case with Shiv Sena. We agreed to support only after the BJP formally asked us for it." Turning up the heat on BJP, Uddhav called for a probe into the allegations of corruption against BJP ministers, including the "chikki" scam that has cast a cloud over Woman Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde.

Read: Intelligence officers on B Raman's Yakub Memon piece: 'He wrote it, so has to be true'

Also read Rediff.com's exclusive story on why former RAW officer B Raman believed that Yakub Memon must not be hanged. 

The Supreme Court will hear death row convict Yakub Memon's mercy plea on Monday, July 27. Memon, the lone death-row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, moved the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking an immediate stay on the execution of his death sentence, scheduled for July 30.


In his criminal writ petition, Memon said that his death warrant was issued by a TADA court in Mumbai even though he had not exhausted all the legal remedies available to him.  He said he had now approached the Governor of Maharashtra with a plea for mercy.

The Kerala state government's July 9 decision to cull 'rabid and dangerous' stray dogs has triggered a worldwide campaign that is going viral online with the hashtag '#BoycottKerala'.


The campaign, which has in fact turned into a 'Hate Kerala' call as well, goes also by the hashtags '#KeralaDogCulling' and '#BoycottKeralaTourism' and even '#BoycottKeralaProducts', indicating that the protest was in fact attacking the state's tourism industry to garner support for the dogs.


According to a Facebook page of the campaign, protests will be staged at several spots across the globe on July 26, with protest venues being finalised already in at least 10 Indian cities and as many international spots.


The Indian cities include Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Goa, Indore and Bengaluru, while the foreign venues include Hyde Park in London, Chicago, Boston, New York, Houston, Seattle, Sao Paulo in Brazil, Berlin in Germany and Italy.


The campaigners, some of whom quote the Animal Welfare Board of India's reported statement against the Kerala government decision, call the culling decision 'unconstitutional and barbaric', and ask fellow-campaigners to 'hit Kerala where it hurts' -- their tourism'.


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"The "caged parrot' that sings to its master's tune is at it again. Twelve "parrots' searched Teesta Setalvad's home and office in Mumbai for proof that she had used foreign donations to her NGO for private purposes. I would think that the CBI has weightier matters to deal with but Setalvad has offended those in power with her single-minded devotion to the cause of justice for Gujarat's Muslims. If not for this intrepid woman, the injustices of Delhi 1984 would have been repeated in Gujarat."


Former Mumbai police commissioner and former Gujarat DGP Julio Ribeiro's column for the Indian Express. Read

Will the Monsoon Session of Parliament be adjourned sine die on Monday?


That's the buzz in the Central Hall of Parliament on Friday, with many members of Parliament from both the Bhartiya Janata Party
and the Congress privately saying that the situation was getting out of control.


The rumours attained steam after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi told TV journalists that External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had committed a criminal act and the only way forward was her resignation.


The senior BJP leadership has refused to relent. Last week and even during the Parliament session this week, the BJP leadership rejected the demands for the resignations of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia over their alleged links with scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi, saying there is "no technical or legal" basis for the resignations.


Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday has maintained that the opposition is not ready for any debate. The government is ready for a discussion in any form at any time. But the distinct and clear impression that they dont want a discussion, Jaitley said after the Rajya Sabha witnessed several adjournments.


Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has signaled that the party was set to persist with the aggression it displayed in the Rajya Sabha, telling her MPs that they needed to convey the message that the government was protecting the corrupt.


Quite naturally, the government has been trying to find a compromise with the Congress-led Opposition through back channel talks via regional parties, to end the logjam.


Sources tell us that BJP MPs have told senior leaders to adjourn the session sine die so that they can concentrate on the Bihar elections, expected to be held by the end of the year. At least 200 MPs will get plumb assignments for the state polls from BJP president and key strategist Amit Shah and they are keen to get cracking on it.


So, a decision will be taken on adjourning the Parliament sine die on Monday, after an all-party meeting is convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.


BJP MPs have are concerned that Rajya Sabha chairperson Dr Hamid Ansari is unyeilding that Treasury Benches cannot get bills passed in the repeated din of the house, especially when MPs rush to the floor of the house.  


The BJP points out that in 2010 Dr Ansari got the Women's Reservation Bill with constitutional amendements passed in the Upper House by ensuring a 'jail-like' situation by putting CRPF policemen on standby. So, why is the chairperson unrelenting now, MPs ask? 

Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com reports from Srinagar: Militants attacked offices of two telecommunication operators in Sopore, Srinagar on Friday. The militants hurled grenades at an Aircel showroom and a tower owned by Vodafone, resulting in widespread panic,  according to the police.


Luckily, no one was hurt in the attack. Telecom operators have been threatened earlier and, although officials were tight-lipped as to why the militants were targeting telecom installations, sources said the ultras are upset about the 'theft' of their communication equipment from mobile transmission towers in Sopore and surrounding areas since the past few months.

Some 1,500 Special Olympics athletes and coaches arriving in Los Angeles were forced to sleep on a gymnasium floor because of a logistics mess that prevented them from getting to their host destinations. The university near Los Angeles International Airport, Loyola Marymount, served as a staging area from which more than 7,000 athletes and thousands more coaches and delegates were routed to host cities. Read more

If you still haven't read it, do so now: Key RAW man, B Raman's, unpublished 2007 article: Why Yakub Memon must not be hanged.
Read the exclusive column on Rediff.com.

The Maldives government's move to allow foreign ownership of its islands will not affect India's strategic interests, said Maldives President Abdullah Yameen. Read more

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and all the States to install CCTV cameras in all the prisons across the country and take a call on installing them in police lock-ups, if there are incidents.


The apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice R. Banumathi in their judgement said that CCTV cameras should be installed in the prisons within one year but not later than two years. The court also said that every police station should have at least two women constables.


Pronouncing the judgement, Justice Thakur said that all the State governments must fill up the vacancies in the State Human Rights Commissions within three months time.


The court also directed union territories to set up State Human Rights commission, noting that none of them, including Delhi, have their own State Human Rights Commission. The court directions came while deciding a PIL by one Dilip K. Basu seeking prison reforms and filling of the vacancies of the State Human Rights Commission.

The Attorney General's contention in the Supreme Court that privacy is not a fundamental right is disquieting in the context of the ongoing debate over the implications of the collection of biometric data from citizens. Read more

The Human DNA Profiling Bill which the Narendra Modi government wants to pass in the current session of Parliament is one of the most intrusive enactments of its kind anywhere in the world, a measure that will render obsolete the national debate on privacy before it has even begun. Read more

In an interview, Julian Assange, 44, talks about the comeback of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform and his desire to provide assistance to a German parliamentary committee that is investigating mass NSA spying. Read more

All jails must install CCTV cameras, Supreme Court directs states.

Lok Sabha adjourned till Monday. Which means not a single day of work for our elected representatives since the monsoon session began on Tuesday.

In the Rajya Sabha, Mr Lalit Modi is the cause of ruckus, interspersed with pleas of 'please, please' from the chairperson.  And the house is adjourned till noon.

Congress members have stalled both houses over the last three days demanding the resignation of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

While Swaraj and Raje are under fire for helping tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi, who faces an Enforcement Department probe for alleged money laundering and forex violations, Chouhan is under pressure to quit over the Vyapam admission and recruitment scandal.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said there should be 'resignations first and discussions later', but the party would be hampered by differences in opposition ranks as it looks to prolong its fight.

Turkey will allow US warplanes to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State group from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, American officials have said. 

The first contingent of American-trained Iraqi army soldiers has been deployed in combat against Islamic State, joining a campaign to encircle and later retake the capital of the country's largest province, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday.

Obama is heading to Kenya and Ethiopia for a four-day trip to East AfricaPresident Barack Obama is heading back to his ancestral homeland.

Turkish forces returned fire on Islamic State militants in Syria with tank shells on Thursday after a Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a cross-border firefight, military and government officials said.

A landmark deal on Iran's nuclear programme has breathed new life into plans for a gas pipeline through Pakistan -- and sparked a geopolitical tussle, with Russia looking to expand its influence, observers say. 

Bill Cosby's lawyers asked a judge to hold an accuser's attorney responsible for the release of the comedian's deposition in a 2005 Pennsylvania case. 

Hundreds of passengers heading to Germany on Condor Airlines were stuck at Portland International Airport in Oregon for nearly 24 hours after an electrical smell forced the crew to stay put. 

The International Monetary Fund signaled Thursday it could release USD1.7 billion in bailout funds next week to Ukraine as the country reels from civil war and seeks private-sector debt relief. 

French President Francois Hollande agreed in a phone conversation with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Thursday to reinforce bilateral cooperation between the countries after last week's nuclear deal in Vienna, Hollande's office said.

Greece's creditors prepared on Thursday for the start of bailout talks in Athens, after lawmakers adopted a second package of reform measures before dawn despite a left wing rebellion that may bring early elections.

The maker of Italy's iconic Ferrari sports car officially filed with US regulators on Thursday its plans to launch an initial public offering on Wall Street, parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said today. 

A Republican-controlled Senate panel has voted to lift a decades-long US ban on travel to Cuba, giving a boost to President Barack Obama's moves to ease travel restrictions and open up relations with the Castro-governed nation. 

At least nine people have been killed during five days of torrential rain and landslides in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), emergency officials said today. 

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