Bengaluru: Train service was affected as rains continued to lash coastal and Malnad region of Karnataka.
Author: PTI
The pier of the bridge has developed cracks and posed a danger to motorists, so it would be razed down once the waters recede, the Minister said.
The ruling AIADMK said it has postponed a meeting of its key decision making body, the Executive Committee, scheduled here to next week.
Tamilnadu Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan visited the flood-hit Sathyamangalam area in Erode today and promised to build 200 houses for the affected people.
The deadliest deluge in close to a century has claimed 173 lives since 8 August and dealt a body blow to the scenic state, wrecking its tourism industry, destroying standing crops in thousands of hectares and inflicting huge damage to infrastructure.
Expressing grief over the devastation, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said his government would extend all possible help to Kerala.
The Godavari river is in spate in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with the government machinery put on high alert in three districts, officials said.
Foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya lit the pyre as cries of ‘Atal Bihari Amar Rahe’ reverberated.
The decks were finally cleared today for the Asia Cup as BCCI officially handed over its hosting rights to the Emirates Cricket Board.