The spokesman said the bodies of the deceased soldiers were recovered by rescue teams, which swung into action immediately after the avalanche struck the post.
The BJP may win more seats in the February 5 assembly election, but not enough to trump AAP, notes Ramesh Menon.
Either everyone's articles and tweets are defamatory or none is. Or are the other allegations accepted, she said.
"Army search teams have so far recovered bodies of two armymen while search for others is still on." The search may be hampered, because the meteorological office in Srinagar has predicted more rains and snow for the next two days in Kashmir.
Surface and air links between Kashmir and rest of the country were cut off on Wednesday due to snowfall in the valley as the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was closed for traffic and all flights to Srinagar Airport cancelled.
The bodies of four army personnel, including an officer, were recovered on Wednesday, taking the death toll due to the avalanche to six in Jammu and Kashmir. Four persons were still missing in Gurez sector of Bandipora district along the Line of Control, defence sources said.Army's rescue-cum-search teams have recovered the bodies of three jawans and an officer from the site of the snow avalanche in Gurez sector, the sources said.
Four persons were killed while scores of others were rescued when avalanches struck the Kashmir Valley after unprecedented snowfall.
At least 22 climbers have died near the base camp of Mt Everest where hundreds of climbers, including many foreigners, are stranded after an avalanche triggered by Nepal's massive earthquake slammed into a part of the camp on the world's highest peak.
An avalanche alert was sounded on Tuesday evening in Kashmir Valley following heavy snowfall across the state since Monday.
Mukhtar Ahmad meets Abdul Rafique Lone who miraculously survived a deadly avalanche at Sonamarg in Jammu and Kashmir, all thanks to timely rescue operations by Indian army paratroopers.
Russian meteorologists have no concerns about a shortage of snow for the Winter Olympics in February but believe avalanches and poor visibility could disrupt the Sochi Games.
A senior police officer in Srinagar said a fierce avalanche rolled down the mountain side, and engulfed a picket of 9 Maratha near Bejihama village in the Uri sector of the Baramulla district on Wednesday morning.
A study by an international team of researchers had warned two year ago that the South Lhonak lake in Sikkim may burst in the future and significantly impact the downstream region.
PM, Parrikar, Rahul condole loss of lives.
The tragedy occurred when they were descending after conquering the 22,652-feet-high Panchachuli peak.
Fresh avalanches have forced rescuers to stop searching for bodies in a Nepal village.
The bodies of four persons including a policeman who were buried under an avalanche during the heavy snowfall last week were recovered by the joint search parties of the army and police on Sunday.
Tata group has been a constant in India's sporting landscape and the conglomerate's involvement only grew under Ratan Tata.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the area in Siachen sector where Pakistani troops are involved in a frantic search for 138 people, mostly soldiers, buried under dozens of feet of snow following an avalanche that hit an army camp 11 days ago.
"It was a miraculous rescue. All efforts are being made to evacuate Lance Naik Hanaman Thappa to the hospital in the morning," Lt Gen D S Hooda, northern army commander, said.
Five workers involved in road clearance work, who went missing on Friday evening after a snow slide hit the Jawahar Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, could not be traced and are presumed dead.
A heavy snowstorm followed by a landslide buried the base camp at an altitude of 3,500 metres when the climbers were waiting for a fair weather to move towards higher camps.
Three villagers were buried alive in an avalanche in the mountainous Dara Kujal village in the Uri area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday afternoon. Bodies of the three villagers have been recovered from under tons of snow by a rescue party, a police spokesman said.
'They were ahead of their times. We don't expect this from a civilisation of the first century AD.'
Nine days after 138 people were buried by an avalanche at a Pakistani army camp in the Siachen sector, rescuers continued their search amidst harsh weather that forced President Asif Ali Zardari to call off a visit to the site on Monday.
More than a dozen Mountain Rescue Teams assisted thousands of pilgrims during this year's Amarnath pilgrimage in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said on Monday, as the annual yatra concluded with more than 5.10 lakh pilgrims offering prayers at the cave shrine.
Racing against time to rescue 138 people, mostly soldiers buried in an avalanche in the Siachen sector, rescuers began digging five specific spots even as experts on Tuesday said there was little chance of finding any survivors.
Hopes were fading fast for finding any surviors buried under tonnes of ice as Pakistani military rescuers were hampered by fresh heavy snowfall and bad weather in an increasingly desperate search for 139 people, mostly soldiers, buried in an avalanche in Siachen sector, close to Indian border.
They try to hide behind the smokescreen that these are works of fiction inspired by real events. So, you can pick and choose from facts and fictionalise to push the right triggers with your audience or appease the powers that be, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Savita Kanswal, 26, was posthumously awarded the highest adventure award at Rashtrapati Bhavan this month. She died heroically, as she had lived, doing what no woman had done before her.
27 mountaineers perished in an avalanche in the mountains of Uttarakhand last week. The mountaineers were returning from a trek to the Draupadi's Danda mountain peak when disaster struck at 8.45 am in the morning.
With 196 dead, Kashmir has borne the brunt of nature's future.
Army teams on Sunday recovered the body of a soldier who had gone missing following an avalanche in Kargil area of Jammu and Kashmir.
Avalanche threat loomed large over high altitude tribal areas and people have been advised to stay indoors as biting cold wave conditions prevailed in Himachal Pradesh in spite of marginal rise in temperature.
An accurate early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India and the toll mounts in Kerala's Wayanad slopes where landslides buried entire homesteads and possibly hundreds of people.
Three mountaineers escape the avalanche at Everest Base Camp, come back to Nepal and decide to get involved in the earthquake relief work, serving puris and vegetables to the affected families, reports Anusha Subramanian for Rediff.com.
Five days after a huge avalanche buried their camp in high mountains of the Karakoram range, army rescuers are yet to find any trace or bodies of 138 people missing in the calamity, mostly soldiers.
