The flood situation in Karnataka worsened in Karnataka on Friday with no let up in the rains as the authorities battled to reach out to the needy in the state, where the toll went up to 12, with thousands of people being affected.
Author: PTI
Four persons, including a one-year-old girl, were killed, and five others injured when a three-storey building collapsed in Nadiad town of Gujarat following heavy rain, officials said on Saturday.
Pakistan has suspended the Lahore-Delhi friendship bus service, after suspending two cross-border trains, in the wake of India’s decision revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcating the State into two Union Territories, a senior Pakistani minister has said.
The Thar Express to Karachi left Bhagat ki Kothi station here at its scheduled time at 1 am Saturday, officials said, amid apprehension that its run may end a few hours later at Munabao, the last station on the Indian side of the border.
The BJP in Telangana has hit out at Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for allegedly asking government employees to shift to temporary premises till the completion of new Secretariat buildings, though the matter is being heard in the High Court.
The ruling AIADMK, which lost the Vellore Lok Sabha seat to arch rival DMK on Friday, claimed the results showed that the vote bank built by late party supremo and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa remained intact.
As Kerala continues to battle the torrential downpour lashing its shores, death toll has risen to 42 in rain related incidents, including flooding and landslides, with over one lakh people moved to relief camps, officials said on Saturday.
The new Congress president will be appointed within the next few days after consultations with the State leaders of the party, sources said on Friday, ahead of the crucial CWC meeting.
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said he and his CPI colleague D Raja were detained at the Srinagar airport and denied entry into the city.