At least 51 people, including an Indian national, have died in Nepal during protests against corruption and a ban on social media. The violence included attacks on government buildings and political offices.
The boat was carrying 30 children, and 20 of them have so far been rescued, they said.
In this two-part series, Dinesh Kumar Mishra highlights the challenges faced by the much abused Bangmati River in Bihar because of solid waste, industrial effluents, encroachment and rampant construction along the river's banks.
In addition to that, 68 people still remain missing, with 100 more sustaining injuries in the disaster.
He also performed puja at Basuki Naag temple in the premises by pouring milk.
Three hundred and sixteen families unsettled by the Bagmati river project in Bihar 40 years ago are still waiting to be rehabilitated. Dinesh Kumar Mishra brings you their plight.
The swollen Bagmati River has breached its embankment in Bihar's Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts, flooding hundreds of villages and forcing the villagers to take shelter at higher planes for safety.Official sources in Sitamarhi said on Saturday that the Bagmati River breached a dozen-feet stretch of the embankment at Tilakrajpur early on Saturday morning, inundating dozens of villages and affecting over 10,000 people. Some people were feared drowned.
The bodies of four Indians, who were among 22 people killed in the Tara Air plane crash in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district, were cremated on Thursday at the sacred Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu.
The flood situation has worsened in northern Bihar's Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts as relief and rescue operations have been badly hit by continuous rains and rising water levels. The overflowing river has submerged several villages and many villagers have been forced to leave their homes to seek a safer shelter. Over two lakh people in nearly 200 villages have been affected, and the situation has been worsened by another embankment breach of Lakhendei River.
The district administration has banned the sale of motor fuels without a permit from the district supply officer in order to stock reserves of petrol and diesel for vehicles to be used for flood-fighting and relief operations.
Bodies of 26 people who drowned after two boats capsized in Bihar were recovered on Tuiesday even as a search was on to trace around 50 missing people, the police said.
The Union minister, along with some others, was on way to Thalwara in Hayaghat block when the engine of the motorboat fell silent and the vessel was being swept downstream by the strong current.
Deputy Secretary (Relief) Upendra Sharma said one Indian Air Force chopper and a column of the army comprising around 60 men with motorboats were pressed into service Saturday morning to provide relief and evacuate people.
The worst-hit Sitamarhi district accounted for 22 deaths.
The bus, on its way to Sitamarhi from Muzaffarpur, plunged into the river as the driver lost control of the vehicle while trying to save a motor cyclist, they said.
Here are the highlights of Modi's second day in Nepal.
The famous 5th century Pashupatinath Temple Kathmandu has survived the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake that flattened several World Heritages like iconic Dharhara tower and Darbar Square in Nepal.
A sombre reminder of the enormity of the tragedy that has now claimed over 10,000 lives.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Thursday met leaders of all 31 political parties to discuss key issues, including a key power trading pact, to be taken up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his maiden official visit to Nepal.
Flood victims have been fighting for survival and living in temporary shelters nearby railway tracks with lack of food items. They are yet to get any help from the government, reports M I Khan.
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However, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said that Modi's visit to Nepal was decided soon after K P Sharma Oli's election as the prime minister in February.
UNICEF estimates that almost 16 million children and their families are in urgent need of life-saving support. Since mid-August, there have been at least 1,288 reported deaths.
There are several other famous temples across India that disallow non-Hindus to enter their place of worship, Rediff.com lists some of them.
