Situation in Uttarakhand unprecedented, says chief of ITBP

Thousands rescued by ITBP in rain-deluged Uttarakhand 62,000 still stranded; PM, Sonia to visit Kedarnath 163 people rescued from flooded areas in Uttarakhand, H... Mamata sends ministers on rescue mission to Uttarakhand Chandigarh, June 19 ...

Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, who has been stranded in Joshimath, today took the role of a counsellor alongside ITBP personnel as he met a number of pilgrims hit by incessant rains and floods. The cricketer is staying at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police ...

The post of NDRF Director General is being held as an additional assignment by the chief of ITBP for more than a fortnight now. The Ministry of Home Affairs is still to find a suitable IPS officer to head this organisation which is in the thick of action to ...

India cricketer Harbhajan Singh, who is on a pilgrimage but stuck due to incessant rains, on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police's (ITBP) for helping rain-hit pilgrims, here. "We are lucky to be here at the ITBP's camp. They have ...

Over 5,000 Army personnel, 10 aircraft of IAF and nearly 1,000 ITBP personnel have been deployed in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for relief and rescue operations. Home secretary R K Singh said food, medicines and blankets were air-dropped in remote areas ...

New Delhi, Jun 18 (PTI) The Indo-Tibetan Border Police today denied reports that three of its troopers who were involved in rescue and relief operations in rain-hit Uttarakhand have been killed. "News reports saying that three ITBP men have died in ...

Three ITBP personnel and two policemen were killed during a rescue operation in Kedarnath. Bahuguna said all districts in Uttarakhand have been affected by torrential rains and that rescue operations were on. He also added that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...

Dehradun/Rishikesh, Jun 18 : The official death toll in the floods and landslide in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh crossed 60 on Monday night, as reports came in of an ITBP camp washed away in Dharchula on the Indo-Tibetan border, and two ...

A 32-year-old man, working as a cook in ITBP, killed his wife by slitting her throat at a hospital in Haldwani town of Nainital. C Bubalin, who is on the run, first gagged his wife while she was sleeping, and then slit her throat, Nainital SSP ...