NDRF deployed 8 more teams in Maharashtra in the flood-affected areas. Now a total of 34 teams have been deployed for rescue and relief work at various places.
Jabalpur, Rewa, Satna, Anuppur, Umarai, Dindori, Katni, Narsinghpur, Mandla, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Vidisha and Sehore, Rajgarh, Betul, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Dhar, Dewas, Agar Malwa, Ashok Nagar and Shivpuri, he said.
The weather department has predicted generally cloudy skies with light rain or drizzle on Sunday. It has issued an orange alert for July 26.
The India Meteorology Department (IMD) on Saturday said the rainfall intensity along the west coast is expected to decrease over the next 24 hours.
IMD department has issued an orange alert for July 26 and forecast a generally cloudy sky with moderate rain/thundershowers accompanied with gusty winds of the speed of 30-40 km/hr.
As heavy rains batter several parts of west and south India, the meteorological department on Friday said isolated extremely heavy falls are very likely over Konkan, Goa, and central Maharashtra in the next two days.
The water was flowing with a strong force, due to which the bus fell off the bridge and got stuck in water before being swept away by the strong currents.
Humidity causes serious hair problems. When faced with a particularly humid day, even the most perfectly coiffed and blow-dried styles devolve into frizzy disasters.
Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah said that he was deeply distressed by the course of events in House yesterday.
K C Venugopal on Thursday moved a privilege motion against Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar for “misleading” the parliament on deaths due to shortage of oxygen.
Normal life was thrown out of gear in several parts of Telangana as torrential rains battered the state, prompting the state government to initiate relief measures.
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh participated in a peaceful protest against three farm laws at Delhi's Jantar Mantar and held their Kisan Parliament simultaneously while the monsoon session was taking place in the Parliament.
Major rivers in Ratnagiri and Raigad districts in the Konkan region are flowing above the danger mark as a result of incessant rains while government machinery is in process of shifting affected people to safer places, authorities said.
In the Rajya Sabha, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was forced to cut short his statement on the row by the uproar among opposition members. As soon as Mr Vaishnaw rose to speak on Pegasus, Trinamool MP Shantanu Sen snatched his papers, tore, and flung them at Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh. This forced the minister to lay the paper on the table instead.
Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned twice during the pre-lunch period on Tuesday after uproar by opposition members over various issues including the Pegasus snooping issue.
The Delhi Police on Wednesday gave permission to farmers to stage demonstrations at Jantar Mantar demanding scrapping of the Agri laws during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, official sources said. They said farmers will travel to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border in buses with police escort.
A day earlier, farmers' unions said they will hold a 'Kisan Parliament' at Jantar Mantar during the monsoon session and 200 protesters from the Singhu border will attend it every day from July 22.
Six rain-related deaths were reported on Tuesday in Punjab and Maharashtra, where rivers have swollen due to intense rainfall.
Opposition members raised uproar in both houses and demanded a thorough probe into the charges of snooping on journalists, politicians, ministers, judges and others using Israeli Pegasus spyware.
It also issued an orange alert for Mumbai between Wednesday and Friday, indicating possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall.
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