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Heavy rains: Assam govt issues alert for residents of Guwahati, opens helpline numbers
•Four persons were killed in a massive landslide at Boragaon in Guwahati city on Tuesday due to incessant rains since Monday night
Assam floods: Work underway to restore damaged railway network
•According to the Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway), the flood and landslides caused due to the incessant rains had damaged the railway network at 60 locations in Dima Hasao, under the 170-km long Lumding-Badarpur section
Assam floods: Situation improving but uncertainty looms over future of affected people
•Phanidhar Bora, a resident of Gossaigaon village under the Kamrup revenue circle in central Assam's Nagaon district said that he lost everything in this devastating flood
Maharashtra: Heavy rains forecast in Mumbai, other coastal areas; stay alert, Uddhav Thackeray tells officials
•People living in low-lying areas, dilapidated buildings and landslide-prone areas should be moved to safer places, Uddhav directed the state administration
Narendra Modi reviews flood situation in six states, calls for innovative technology for forecast system
•The prime minister appealed for better coordination between Central and state agencies as part of a permanent system to predict floods
At least 19 dead, two others seriously injured in Assam's Barak Valley as incessant rain triggers landslides
•State Minister Parimal Suklavaidya, who was in Hailakandi town to review the COVID-19 pandemic situation, has directed district authorities to immediately send their reports on the landslide to the government for payment of Rs Four lakh to the next of kin of each of the deceased.
North India Flood 2019: Heavy rains lash Assam, Rajasthan, Bihar as IMD predicts downpour likely to continue till 27 July
Fp Staff •The northern parts of the country are likely to receive light to heavy rains, with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) saying rainfall activity has increased over central India, northern plains and western Himalayan
Daily Bulletin: ICJ verdict in Kulbhushan Jadhav case likely today; SC to pass order on rebel Karnataka MLAs’ resignations; day's top stories
Fp Staff •Kulbhushan Jadhav case: India hopes for relief as ICJ set to deliver verdict today; Karnataka crisis: SC reserves order in rebel MLAs' case for today at 10.30 am; day's top stories
Floods in Assam, Bihar claim 55 lives, over 70 lakh people affected; red alert sounded in Kerala
•The flood fury continued in Bihar and Assam Tuesday with the death toll in the region mounting to 55, even as a red alert was sounded in Kerala after the weather office predicted extremely heavy rains in the state
Three dead, two lakh affected by rain, flood-related incidents in Assam; heavy showers lash Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, West Bengal
•Parts of northern and eastern India received heavy showers on Wednesday while in the northeastern state of Assam three persons were killed in rain and flood related incidents and over two lakh people across 11 districts have been affected by the deluge