Nepal flood: Centre puts Bihar & UP on high alert as NDRF deploys teams

The bench also directed states/Union territories and high courts to conduct periodic training and sensitisation programmes for judicial officers, police officials, prosecutors, protection officers, counsellors through judicial academies, police training institutions and other appropriate bodies. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih said there was a need for time-bound completion of trial in dowry cases and directed the high courts to periodically review pending criminal ap

NDRF has deployed 20 teams — 11 in UP and nine in Bihar — for evacuation, relief and rescue operations in case these areas experience floods and waterlogging. These include an NDRF team deployed in Kushinagar district, near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. In a media briefing, NDRF IG Narendra Bundela said floods have caused massive destruction in Nepal with hundreds of people, including Indian tourists, reported missing.

The @AheadForum1 handle of American Hindus for Engagement and Dialogue (AHEAD Forum) became unavailable Wednesday, three days before Bhagwat’s address at Madison Square Garden’s Infosys Theatre. Seeking restoration, AHEAD Forun had earlier said that the suspension “may have occurred in error” and its communications promoted “universal peace, oneness, harmony” and interfaith dialogue. No public evidence links X’s action to protests around the programme.

Latest available National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority tally put 910 people missing or “out of contact” in Nepal, which includes MEA’s assessment of 288 Indian citizens remaining “uncontactable” as of late Thursday evening. Nepal has not released a nationality-wise breakup of those dead, leaving the number of Indian fatalities, if any, unconfirmed. Across the border in Tibet, Chinese authorities reported 558 people missing as of Thursday morning.

Nepal Police put the toll at 157, while Chinese authorities reported three deaths and 265 people missing in Tibet’s Gyirong county. Nepal Police said 579 others — 466 foreigners from 28 countries and 113 Nepalis — remained untraced, including at least 133 Indians. Among the missing were at least 37 NRIs. Frighteningly, as many as 33 bodies were found 150km downstream at Chitwan, showing how far the dea-dly waters carried victims.

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination had “highlighted” in a report the increase in law enforcement operations targeting “Rohingya, Bengali-speaking Muslims, migrants and asylum-seekers, particularly following the 2017 home affairs order and the April 2025 Pahalgam attack in Kashmir”. Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “India rejects any politically motivated, highly malicious references in the report with all the cont

Govt had allowed duty-free import of 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar and also allowed the processors to sell some refined sugar, which was meant for export only, in the domestic market. Officials and industry insiders said at least 3 lakh tonnes of processed sugar could come into the market quickly. The subsequent import of 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar will help tide over any supply issue. Meanwhile, the ex-mill price of sugar has gone down by 20% in the past 10 days.