The Lurgan seaman who died on HMS Pathfinder 100 years ago

He was just 19 when he enlisted in the navy a year before the outbreak of World War One and Lurgan man Ordinary Seamon Herbert Daley was one of the first to die when HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed 100...

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27 dead in landslide, toll swells to 143 in J&K floods

Aided by a dry spell, the Army maximized their air-lift operations rescuing close to 22,000 flood-stricken people including around 2,000 from Srinagar alone, even as fatalities increased to 175 with...

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