The army, SDRF and NDRF are assisting the district administrations in evacuating the affected population to safer places, the authority said.
From the hands of the farmer as a common fertiliser, in the hands of a terrorist as a deadly explosive: This is what ammonium nitrate has become. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament and party's youth wing president Abhishek Banerjee was injured when his vehicle met with an accident on NH-2 near Singur, while he was returning to Kolkata from Murshidabad on Tuesday.
The staff and security personnel are performing their duties using mechanised and country boats to deal with any kind of eventualities, they said.
The deluge, which had affected 2.5 lakh people in 11 districts on Wednesday, spread to six more districts on Thursday affecting 4.23 lakh people, it said.
The International Paralympic Committee has ruled 18-year-old paralyzed swimmer Victoria Arlen as ineligible to participate in the upcoming World Championships in Montreal, after finding that her injury might not be permanent.
A major tragedy was averted after two Naxal-planted landmines carrying 50 and 25 kg explosives were unearthed from a national highway in Dantewada on Monday, barely days after an IED blast left eight CRPF personnel dead in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district.
Block development officer of Tariyani in Sheohar district, Manoj Singh, was on Monday released by the Maoists, a top district police officer said.
One of the eye witnesses of the Murthal gang-rapes, which took place during the Jat agitation, has claimed that he was threatened for 'speaking too much'.
Truckers in Manipur are not willing to hit the troubled NH 39 that connects border town of Moreh and Imphal to Assam valley through Dimapur in Nagaland, even after agitating Naga groups in Manipur the All Naga Students' Association of Manipur and the United Naga Council -- have lifted the 67-days-long blockade of the highway from Friday evening.
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Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
The flood situation affected nearly 26.5 lakh people across 28 districts.
Clashes broke out at multiple places and Delhi's borders resembled a virtual battle zone with restless crowds of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, milling around and a sea of police personnel keeping them at bay.
A potato farmer allegedly committed suicide at his home at Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday
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Heavy rains kept the temperature below normal levels on Saturday even as waterlogging in several areas slowed vehicular movement inconveniencing commuters in the national capital.
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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to people to maintain peace and calm and urged the protesters to refrain from taking law into own hands.
The bench noted that "conflicting versions about the incident demands an inquiry to uncover the true facts".
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'This is not the first time that a large contingent of Assam armed police led by senior officers attacked and destroyed farm huts, crops and plantations of Mizo farmers.' 'There have been a series of such intrusions in the past and the pace of such intrusions increased in the recent past.'
While two of the men raped her at gunpoint, the third clicked photographs of the act.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Haryana remained on the boil on as the Jat stir unleashed fresh incidents of violence and arson even as the Army had to use choppers to reach parts of blocked Rohtak.
The flood situation continued to be critical in Arunachal Pradesh.
Mumbai-based couple Jyoti and Shrinath Iyer travelled 4,600 km by bike from Maharashtra to Kerala and back.
Realty major Unitech has sold a hotel in Gurgaon for Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) and is close to selling another hospitality project by June-end for a similar amount, as part of its exercise to raise funds for reducing debt.
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The militants who drove up to the heavily-guarded Assembly complex around 11.30 am and hurled the bomb, which exploded inside the complex, official sources said, adding that they then drove away towards Imphal-Dimapur NH39. No casualty has been reported yet.
The tightening of traffic restrictions put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus by Gurgaon and Ghaziabad administrations on their borders with Delhi led to chaos and traffic congestion on Friday.
Blockade is an issue which has seemingly widened the divide between the hills and the plains.
At the Ghazipur border, they huddled close together, only some with masks -- aware of the coronavirus threat that had led to an unprecedented 21-day lockdown of the country and taken away their jobs, but helpless to do anything about combating the infection.
The heritage Darjeeling Himalayan Railways will resume the toy train services from December from Siliguri.
While incessant rain in the past 24 hours has wreaked havoc in parts of the northeast, triggering flash floods, the national capital experienced one of its hottest days.
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The death toll in Assam in the current flood rose to 30 on Wednesday with 14 bodies recovered from worst-affected Goalpara and Kamrup (rural) districts even as relief and rescue work continued round-the-clock.
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