At least 1,000 were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan, leaving only one survivor, The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said on Monday. The landslide struck on August 31 after days of heavy rainfall, the group led by Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour said in a statement. The movement,…
Chinese chess player spends 4 hours in heavy rain after loss (screengrabs) A video from northern China has gone viral, showing a man refusing to leave a chessboard after his defeat in Xiangqi (Chinese chess). Despite pouring rain in Hebei province, he sat for nearly four hours replaying and analysing his moves, even as his…
NEW DELHI: At least three people were killed and two others were reported missing due to heavy rains and flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in the Rajgad area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban, according to the district administration. A rescue operation has been launched to find the missing persons. “Three people have died due…
GGM Science College, Jammu (Video credits: X @rebelliousdogra) NEW DELHI: Heavy monsoon rains on Tuesday flooded the campus of Government Gandhi Memorial (GGM) Science College and Cluster University in Jammu. Videos circulating on social media show students carrying their bags on their heads as they wade through knee-deep water, while classrooms and hostels remain submerged,…
Pakistan has evacuated tens of thousands of people to safer areas after neighbouring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions, officials said Tuesday. The move came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, marking the first public diplomatic contact between the two nuclear-armed rivals in…
Heavy rains over the weekend have battered Himachal Pradesh, closing hundreds of roads, cutting power and water supply, and flooding several homes.Officials said on Sunday that a total of 484 roads, including two national highways, have been closed for vehicular traffic as moderate to heavy showers continue across the state.The local meteorological office has issued…
Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 storm on Sunday, though its outer bands continued to lash Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with heavy rain and tropical-storm-force winds. Forecasters said Erin’s maximum winds decreased, but the storm grew in size. Tropical storm warnings were issued for the Turks and Caicos Islands, with a watch…
Image from route leading to Janglote in Kathua (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Four people lost their lives and six others sustained injuries after a cloudburst hit a remote village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.The incident occurred in Jod Ghati village of Rajbagh during the intervening night of Saturday…
Hurricane Erin exploded into a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday, strengthening from a tropical storm in just 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center said. Although the compact storm’s centre is not expected to hit land, Erin threatens the northeast Caribbean with heavy rain and possible flooding as it grows larger. Erin is…
MUMBAI: An IndiGo A321 aircraft, operating a flight from Bangkok, suffered a tail strike when landing in Mumbai in heavy rains in the early hours of Saturday.IndiGo flight 6E1060 departed Bangkok at 11.40 pm and landed in Mumbai around 3 am. But before it could touch down on runway 27 of the airport, the aircraft…