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Orders District Collectors, Superintendents of Police, and other key officials to be present in the field round-the-clock and actively monitor the situation

Rains started around midnight with the downpour continuing with incessant downpours in the city and suburbs

"Karachi division reported 1,834 malaria cases in last eight months with no deaths," a health department report shared, as per ARY News.

The BBC reported that local media indicated the need for hundreds of rooftop rescues in Mucum, with 85 percent of the town submerged in flooding.

The flood situation in Assam's Morigaon district remains critical, as nearly 45,000 people in the district have been affected by the current wave of flooding

Thousands of people living near waterways were evacuated, their houses emptied and cars moved to higher ground.

Many main roads, which are usually teeming with vehicles, wore a nearly deserted look in Hyderabad, providing an unusual sight for those who braved the weather to venture outside.

Officials were trying to find how many people were impacted after 19 vehicles were reported submerged and isolated in a flooded underground roadway in Osong, according to Yonhap.

Roads have been closed in some areas in Adelaide and surroundings and motorists were warned not to drive through rain and floodwaters.

The government had previously said 131 people were killed, 94 others injured and nearly 9,000 displaced after disasters triggered by heavy rains hit western, northern and southern provinces of Rwanda on May 2 and 3.

Hyderabad: The Secunderabad division of South Central Railway (SCR) has undertaken major works to address the problem of water logging in Secunderabad station yard. As part of this exercise, for the first time in SCR, micro tunnelling method has been employed through Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) to push the pipes in the station yard. The […]

Mancherial: In an example of going an extra-mile, authorities of the civil supplies department shipped rice meant for Public Distribution System (PDS) by a boat to remote Sumputam village in Vemanapalli mandal, which was isolated by flooding streams, on Thursday. District Civil Supplies Officer A Prem Kumar visited the flooding stream and ensured that the […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced allocation of Rs 1,000 crore to take up works for protection of Bhadrachalam town from Godavari floods on a permanent basis. The government will take up construction of residential colonies for people living in flood-prone areas, develop embankment around Sri Sitaramachandra Swamy temple and also take up repair […]

Hyderabad: Efforts to tackle the menace of urban flooding, which has emerged a major threat in the city, especially to people residing in low-lying areas, during heavy rains, are gathering steam with a series of works worth a whopping Rs 2,250 crore to fix water-logging issues in such localities in progress. Some of the major […]

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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that hundreds of people have been rescued from the waters.

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama pointed to climate change as a cause of recent deadly storms.

The flooding brings the death toll from more than two months of torrential rains ravaging Colombia to 27, with thousands of people flooded out of their homes.

Heavy rain effectively shut down Manila, the sprawling capital of 12 million people, and surrounding areas, turning streets into rivers.

Heavy rains were reported in the eastern half of Cuba, where authorities have evacuated thousands of people due to the risk of flooding.