The Telangana government has announced a two-day holiday for all educational institutions in the state after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a rain warning.
As per District Magistrate Office Palghar, the district administration in Palghar, Maharashtra, gave 23 NDRF members instructions to be ready amid persistent downpours.
The raids are still underway against newly floated offshoots of proscribed Pakistan-backed banned terrorist outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday morning arrived at the site of the landslide in Raigad district, where four people were killed and several are feared trapped under debris.
The NDRF said that two teams have reached the spot and launched the search and rescue operation. They further informed that two more teams have left from Mumbai to join the operation.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued an orange warning across Telangana for the next two days indicating the likelihood of widespread rainfall.
Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee president and Mandi MP Pratibha Singh and State Sports Minister Vikramaditya Singh met with Union Minister Giriraj Singh in the national capital on Wednesday.
Some of the parties have planned to move an adjournment motion over Manipur violence among other issues on day one of the Parliament's Monsoon Session on Thursday.
While addressing the media, CM Shinde said, "I have ordered the Commissioner of BMC to assure people get back to their homes safely and rescue those who are stuck in the rain".