<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc4485a6-66d0-4376-ad22-fa308fdb5193/7F23FBC7-8931-4AFD-9130-FD0580B24192/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2/*http://www.afp.com"><IMG width="100" height="45" border="0" alt="AFP" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/afp_lo_1.gif" /></A> </DIV> 13 million hit by floods, India's swamped diamond city sees hope </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/4943CADA-C85A-42EB-84EC-B1FFD8A730AA" alt="Indian women carry pots of freshwater on their heads as they walk through floodwaters in the village of Sion, some 250 kms west of Ahmedabad, August 9. Thirteen million people across west and south India were still hit by floods, officials have said, but water levels in one city which had faced total inundation were beginning to recede.(AFP)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><P> AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) - Thirteen million people across west and south India were still hit by floods, officials have said, but water levels in one city which had faced total inundation were beginning to recede. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><P> Border guards joined the army in a huge rescue effort in Surat city Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><P> Officials said the number killed since the floods hit western Gujarat and Maharashtra and southern Andhra Pradesh states nine days ago was now 240 with 179 missing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060810/sc_afp/indiaweatherfloods_060810121527"><P> The home ministry said it rushed units of the Border Security Force and some 1,000 personnel of the National Disaster Rescue Force to Surat in Gujarat Thursday in a bid to help its 3.5 million residents marooned in the inundated city.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F23FBC7-8931-4AFD-9130-FD0580B24192/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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