Air India special flight landed at Barbados Airport on Wednesday in order to take back the T20 World Cup champions India home who are stranded in West Indies due to airport shutdown because of Hurricane Beryl.
According to the Assam Rifles, close to 500 civilians have been rescued by the troops from far-flung villages in the areas of Vijoypur, Dharampur, Mudoi, Shrishtipur, Hanthi Mara Beel and Chowkham.
The PDMA said that several vehicles are stranded at Dhana Sar due to landsliding caused by heavy rains in eastern Balochistan's Koh-e-Suleman mountain range.
Two bike-borne men fired at a car in Dwarka's Dabri area in Delhi, said the police. The fire shot was aimed at a person but the bullets hit the car stranded nearby, the police added.
On the back of a belligerent bowling performance, South Africa secured a ticket for the men's T20 World Cup 2024 final for the first time, defeating Afghanistan in the first semi-final in Trinidad.
Villagers in the hardest-hit low-lying areas of Sylhet could be seen wading through chest-deep water and heaping their belongings into piles to protect them from the muddy waters.
Troops from the Trishakti Corps of the Indian Army, along with the civil administration, undertook the rescue of tourists stranded in North Sikkim, the army said on Wednesday.
Following the incessant rains and landslides in Sikkim, which claimed nine lives and left 1,200-1,400 tourists stranded in the Mangan district, State Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang announced an ex-gratia of Rs five lakh each to the families of deceased and promulgated that the government w
Due to recent heavy rain and landslides in Sikkim, many tourists from West Bengal have been stranded in Sikkim. In order to assist the stranded tourists, a Tourist Facilitation Help Desk has been opened at Rangpo, an order by the Office of the District Magistrate of Kalimpong said.
"In the last 3 days, Sikkim has witnessed 2 natural calamities: a landslide in Namchi district in which 3 people lost their lives, and similarly, a landslide happened on the intervening nights of June 12 and 13 in Mangan district in which six people lost their lives," the Chief Secretary sai