Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday reviewed the heavy rains in various districts of Marathwada and directed the divisional commissioners to immediately assess the damage.
Unprecedented widespread rainfall during the past couple of days has left a trail of destruction causing panic among the public in Khammam districts as floods in unlike in the past 30 years.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Monday declared the immediate assistance of Rs 5 crore to the flood-hit districts of Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mahbubabad and Suryapet.
A regional meteorologist has also predicted that along with a very heavy rainfall alert in the five districts namely Burhanpur, Khargone, Dewas, Harda and Betul, there is heavy rainfall in 22 districts in the state in the next 24 hours.
Amid the ongoing protests in West Bengal over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, another case involving the alleged molestation of a minor girl surfaced in Madhyamgram, North 24 Parganas district.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Irrigation Minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday announced that the Yettinahole project, which would provide water to seven districts in the state, will be inaugurated on September 6 on the occasion of the Gowri festival.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) to assess damages caused by rainfall and floods in Gujarat. The IMCT, led by the executive director of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), will shortly visit the flood-affected districts
Even though Cyclone Asna has mostly left Sindh behind, Balochistan may still have thundershowers with heavy rainfall along its coastal districts until Sunday night, according to a senior official at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Dawn reported.
As part of a large-scale crackdown on CPI (Maoist), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted search operations at seven locations in two districts of Bihar and seized a host of incriminating digital devices and documents along with live ammunition.
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, former Member of Parliament for Ladakh, former BJP State President, and former Chief Executive Councillor of LAHDC Leh, today met with Brig (Retd) Dr BD Mishra, the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, to extend his deep gratitude to the Union Territory Administration of L