The monsoon has become fully active across Bihar, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting heavy rainfall in all districts over the next five days.

A yellow alert has been issued, warning of rain, thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and strong winds in several parts of the state.

According to the IMD, heavy rainfall is expected in Katihar, Kaimur, and Rohtas on Thursday, while Gaya, Nawada, Sheikhpura, and other southern districts may receive heavy rain over the next two days.

"Due to the flow of easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal and the activation of the monsoon trough extending from Sriganganagar to the east-central Bay of Bengal, Bihar is witnessing continuous cloud cover, creating favourable conditions for widespread rain," an official from the Patna Meteorological Centre said.

A gunfight between the security forces and the terrorists continued for the second day on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.

Security forces had started a CASO (Cordon and Search Operation) in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar district on Wednesday evening after intelligence reports about the presence of terrorists in the area.

As the security forces closed in on the hiding terrorists, they fired, triggering an encounter.

Latest reports from the area said that the encounter continued in the area with intermittent firing from the two sides.

Army’s Nagrota headquartered WhiteKnight corps said on X on Wednesday, “Based on specific #intelligence a joint search operation was underway in Kanzal Mandu, #Kishtwar. Contact has been established with the #terrorists and #operations are in progress.”

Amid relentless rainfall and deteriorating weather conditions in Uttarakhand, around 40 devotees returning from the Kedarnath Dham were rescued by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) on Thursday after being stranded near the Sonprayag landslide zone.

The pilgrims were trapped following a sudden landslide that caused debris to block the route around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, making movement impossible.

The landslide occurred near Sonprayag, a crucial transit point on the Kedarnath Yatra route. Responding swiftly, SDRF teams reached the site and conducted a high-risk nighttime rescue operation.

A huge fire broke out in a shop near Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, early Thursday. There were no casualties.

The fire started from a shop dealing in iron scrap and spread to adjoining shops. Fire services personnel rushed to the spot and controlled the fire.

Three fire engines were deployed for the firefighting operation. According to police, the fire started around 3 a.m.

Preliminary investigation by the authorities indicates that a short-circuit caused the fire. Two shops were completely gutted, while canopies set up in front of the temple were also damaged.

Police registered a case and took up further investigation.

Meanwhile, a huge fire broke out in a rubber factory in Hyderabad on Thursday. No loss of life was reported in the incident.

Rescuers resumed the search operation in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district on the third day on Thursday to locate 34 people who went missing after cloudbursts and heavy rain triggered massive landslides and flash floods.

The India Meteorological Department has predicted a moderate flash flood risk in Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur, Shimla, Sirmaur and Solan districts till Friday.

Amid heavy rain and broken roads, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team on Wednesday set an example of courage and dedication by carrying a pregnant woman in a palanquin for miles to reach a hospital in the Thunag area in Mandi district.

Torrential rain on Tuesday caused severe flooding, washing away 14 bridges, 148 houses and two shops, resulting in 11 deaths, largely in Mandi district. The death toll could rise as the survival of the missing people after more than 48 hours of disaster is getting dim.

Five flights arriving here from various destinations were diverted to other cities due to bad weather during the night, said officials here, adding that the operations were back to normal now.

As the weather at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport was not good for landings, the flights coming from Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai and Jaipur were diverted to the nearest airports on Tuesday night.

Due to poor visibility at the runway because of inclement weather, the flights were diverted to other airports.

IndiGo flight 6E 638, coming from Bengaluru, was diverted to Vijayawada Gannavaram Airport in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Kolkata-Hyderabad IndiGo flight 6E 6528 was diverted to Bengaluru due to bad weather at Hyderabad Airport.

The Karnataka Police have registered an FIR against three men for allegedly provoking their female companions to file a false complaint against on-duty police officers after being caught for drunk driving, police said on Wednesday.

The FIR was filed by the Ashoknagar Police in Bengaluru. The accused have been identified as Varun, Sharan, and Niranjan.

Videos of the accused arguing with the police, raising their voices, questioning the officers’ actions, and asking them to remove their masks have surfaced and gone viral on social media. In the footage, the police are also seen pushing the accused into a vehicle and questioning bystanders about why they did not assist the police during the incident.

Search for 13 missing workers following the blast at a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamyalaram near Hyderabad continued on Wednesday.

More than 48 hours after the blast at Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd., which claimed the lives of 36 workers, the rescue teams continued clearing debris.

According to officials, 13 workers were still missing, and it is feared that they were trapped under the debris of the three-storey building, which collapsed under the impact of the blast.

The search teams have deployed huge cranes and JCBs to clear the debris at the blast site in Pashamylaram industrial area in Sangareddy district, about 50 km from Hyderabad.

Heavy rain in the area on Tuesday night hampered the search operation. The rescue workers resumed the operation on Wednesday morning.

Two women have been arrested for robbing a young passenger in Delhi’s Kamla Nagar area, said police on Wednesday.

The two were accused of robbing the man of Rs 10,000 after thrashing him with the help of their male accomplice.

According to a press release of the Delhi Police, the incident was reported on June 30 when information about a robbery of Rs 10,000 was reported at the Kamla Market police station.

The complainant stated that he was en route to his hometown when an unknown male person befriended and lured him. The man dropped him at G.B. Road, where two women assaulted him and robbed him.

“Based on his statement, an FIR was registered vide FIR No. 227/2025, dated 30.06.2025, under Sections 309(4)/3(5) BNS at PS Kamla Market”, the police release said.

Rescuers on Wednesday resumed the search operation in Himachal Pradesh on the second day to trace 34 people, who went missing after cloudbursts and heavy rain triggered massive landslides and flash floods.

Sixteen cloudbursts and three flash floods on Tuesday in Mandi district washed away one bridge, 24 houses and one hydropower project, resulting in 10 deaths so far.

The death toll could rise as the survival of the missing people after more than 24 hours of disaster is getting dim.

The maximum damage was reported in the Mandi district.

In total, three people from Chamba district, 51 from Hamirpur district, and 316 from Mandi district have been rescued so far.

The state's Meteorological Department has predicted that heavy to very heavy rain is likely to continue across the state till July 7.

Rajasthan has recorded 128 per cent more rainfall than normal during June in the ongoing monsoon season, the weather department officials have said.

According to the Meteorological Department, heavy showers have filled ponds and dams across the state much earlier than usual. The rainfall has been particularly abundant in eastern Rajasthan, which received 160 per cent more than average, while western Rajasthan saw a 79 per cent increase.

As a result, rivers and seasonal drains are flowing strongly, and water levels in many dams have risen significantly. In the Kota division, several smaller dams are already filled to capacity, while major reservoirs like Bisalpur, Parvati, and Mahi Bajaj Sagar have also received a healthy inflow.

The Water Resources Department reports that Rajasthan's dams currently hold 50.45 per cent of their total storage capacity -- a significant jump from 32.53 per cent on the same date last year.

The death toll in the explosion in a pharmaceutical unit at Pashamylaram near Hyderabad mounted to 36 on Tuesday.

With some of the injured succumbing at hospitals and rescue workers recovering more bodies from debris, the death toll rose sharply since Monday.

The toll in the worst industrial disaster in Telangana may go up further as the rescue workers continued searches for the bodies in the debris of a three-storey building which collapsed under the impact of the blast.

A massive explosion had rocked Sigachi Industries Limited's pharmaceutical factory at Pashamylaram industrial area in Sangareddy district, about 50 km from Hyderabad, on Monday morning.

A fire incident was reported from the government-run Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday. The mishap occurred in the burns ward of the hospital, and all 26 inpatients were safely shifted to another block.

According to the preliminary investigation by the police, the fire broke out at around 3 a.m. in the burns ward due to a short circuit in the switchboard. A bed, register book, and other equipment were gutted in the incident.

The fire and smoke engulfed the ground floor of the burns ward. Dr Divya, who was on night duty, noticed the fire and promptly alerted the authorities. The hospital staff then safely relocated all 26 patients to another ward in H Block.

One person was reportedly killed and at least nine people went missing in multiple cloudbursts overnight in Karsog division of Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, officials said on Tuesday.

The cloudbursts triggered flash floods that washed away many houses.

At least 41 people have been rescued by the district administration and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).

According to reports, 10 houses and a bridge were swept away by floods in Kuklah. In Mandi district, the 16-MW Patikari Hydro-Electric Power Project has also been washed away.

The run-of-the-river power project is built on the Bakhli Khad, a left-bank tributary of the Beas river.

Owing to the heavy inflow of water, 150,000 cusecs of water have been released from the Pandoh Dam.

The situation turned critical as the downpour in the Beas upper catchment led to a sharp increase in inflow at Pandoh Dam.

Locals and tourists have been strictly warned to stay away from the riverbanks.

An explosion in a spray dryer machine is suspected to have caused Telangana’s worst industrial disaster at the pharmaceutical unit of Sigachi Industries at Pashamylaram near Hyderabad, claiming more than 30 lives.

While authorities have launched an investigation to ascertain the exact cause of the blast, officials in the industries department believe that a massive temperature buildup in the spray dryer may have caused the explosion in the Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) drying unit.

A spray dryer turns a liquid or slurry into a dried powder by atomising it into a hot gas stream. As a chemical process in a spray dryer leads to a sharp rise in temperature, a bow air handler is used to regulate airflow and temperature.

After a hoax bomb threat was sent via email to the Jabalpur Airport last week, operations at the airport have resumed now, authorities said on Monday.

The threat triggered a full-scale emergency response, leading to the evacuation of the terminal and a three-hour-long security sweep.

The email, received by an airport official, claimed that powerful explosives had been planted in bags around the premises and warned of mass casualties if the buildings were not evacuated immediately.

The message was signed by groups identifying themselves as "Road Kill" and "Kyon".

Airport authorities promptly activated emergency protocols.

The Khamaria police station in-charge Sarojini Chouksey said the bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS), along with a police team from the station, fire brigade units, and ambulances, were deployed to the site.

In a rare and significant weather event, Churu -- a district in Rajasthan renowned for its extreme temperatures -- recorded 85.1 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours. This marks the highest single-day rainfall ever recorded in June for the city, according to Radheshyam Sharma, Director of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Jaipur Centre.

According to the IMD, this surpasses the previous record of 81.9 mm, registered on June 24, 1988. The data is based on records maintained from 1956 to the present. This exceptional downpour not only highlights the increasing variability in monsoon patterns but also adds to Churu's unique weather history.

Churu is famously unpredictable in terms of climate. Despite being located near the Thar Desert, one of India’s hottest regions, the district has experienced extreme cold spells in winters.

Six workers were feared killed and 20 others injured in a massive reactor blast at an industrial unit at Pashamailaram near Hyderabad on Monday.

The incident occurred at a chemical factory in the industrial area in Sangareddy district around 9 a.m.

The explosion triggered a huge fire, which engulfed the premises of Sigachi Chemicals. Firefighters rushed to the spot to douse the fire. Eleven fire engines were pressed into service to control the fire.

Police, fire services and other personnel launched rescue and relief operations. Ambulances were also seen at the spot to shift the injured to hospitals.

The injured were admitted to government and private hospitals. The condition of some of the injured is stated to be critical.

Three children from the same family drowned in a tragic incident in the Utavali village, located under the Pipat police station limits of Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh.

The siblings -- identified as 12-year-old Hari Yadav, 10-year-old Sunita Yadav, and 7-year-old Bhanu Pratap Yadav -- had gone to bathe in the Ghuvau pond on Sunday when the accident occurred.

Bijawar Sub-Divisional Police Officer Ajay Kumar Rithoriya confirmed the details and stated that the bodies have been sent for post-mortem.

An investigation is underway to determine the exact circumstances of the drowning. According to the official, all three children were siblings from a family. They went to take a bath during the rain in a pond. One of the children began to struggle in the water, prompting the other two to attempt a rescue.

In a major boost to connectivity in the Northeast, the construction of the much-awaited Bairabi-Sairang railway line in Mizoram has been completed. The 51.38 km-long railway line will soon be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Vinod Kumar, Chief Engineer of the project, said, “This has been one of the most challenging projects undertaken by Indian Railways. Every segment of this line posed unique difficulties. Due to heavy rainfall in the region, the working season is limited to just four months a year.”

The Bairabi-Sairang line connects the Mizoram capital, Aizawl, directly to the Indian railway network. Previously, the railway line extended only up to Bairabi, and further travel to Aizawl was only possible via road, a route often affected by landslides and weather disruptions.

In a tragic road accident on National Highway 75 near the Kunigal bypass in Karnataka's Tumakuru district, four members of the same family lost their lives after the car they were travelling in was hit by a speeding canter truck.

The deceased have been identified as residents of Mattikere village in Magadi taluk -- Seebe Gowda, his wife Shobha, and their children Dumbishree and Bhanukiran Gowda.

The accident occurred while the family was on their way to drop their son off at his school hostel. Seebe Gowda, who lived with his family in Magadi town, had come to Kunigal to drop off his son Bhanukiran Gowda, a Class 8 student at Valley School near Bidanagere on the outskirts of Kunigal.

Police have arrested two more persons in connection with the death of a minor girl at Kaliganj in Nadia district of West Bengal.

The two arrested persons were identified as Gawal Sheikh and his son Bimal Sheikh, the office of Krishnanagar Police District superintendent said on Saturday morning.

Gawal is the prime accused in the case, as per the complaint registered by the mother of the victim girl, Tamanna Khatun.

In the complaint that she registered with Kaliganj Police Station, the victim's mother claimed that Gawal was the one who had been instructing his associates to hurl crude bombs targeting her residence.

With the two fresh arrests, the total number of arrests in the case mounted to nine.

A youth, who was returning home with his brother, was stabbed to death by unidentified people after a minor altercation in Delhi's Geeta Colony.

The deceased was identified as Yash Sharma.

Detailing the sequence of events, Aman Sharma said that he, along with his brother Yash, was on his way back home on a scooty after closing down their garage at around 8 P.M. on Friday.

"When we were on the way back home, the side mirror of our scooty touched two youths by mistake who abused us. When we asked them why they had abused us, one of the men in the other group pointed a gun at Yash's forehead. As Yash tried to snatch the gun, the other man fled the scene and brought three other youths with him, who stabbed my brother," Aman said.

A badly injured Yash was rushed to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead, Aman said.

Mamata, Aman's aunt, said that incidents of crime are increasing in the Rani Garden area and even young children there carry sharp-edged weapons.

In a major action against corruption and drug networks in prisons, the Punjab government on Saturday said it has suspended 25 officials, including three Deputy Superintendents and two Assistant Superintendents.

The government said the action is part of the drive to root out corruption and dismantle drug networks operating inside prisons.

"Following reports of irregularities and drug-related activities within jails, the government said the action was to end corruption and drug networks. The big action was taken as per information received about corruption and drug networks in jails," the government said in a statement.

In March, the government shifted notorious jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria from the high-security Bathinda Central Jail to Silchar Jail in Assam as authorities suspected that detained gangsters were running drug syndicates from Punjab’s prisons.

At least three passengers were killed and two others critically injured after a private double-decker bus collided with a truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district on Saturday, officials said.

According to police, the bus, which was travelling from Delhi to Orai in Jalaun district, rammed into the rear of a truck laden with marble tiles near the Nagla Khangar area.

The impact was severe, causing extensive damage to the front and left side of the bus.

Rural Superintendent of Police Trigun Bisen confirmed that three people died on the spot. Two injured passengers were rushed to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGI) in Saifai, Etawah, where they are currently undergoing treatment.

The Tamil Nadu government has ordered the permanent closure of 14 Sub-Jails, trimming the network from 96 to 82 facilities and redeploying personnel and resources to busier prisons across the State. The list includes the Cheyyar sub-jail in Tiruvannamalai, which has functioned as a special camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees since March 2014.

Five of the 14 facilities had already been lying dormant after temporary shutdowns between 2013 and 2020.

According to the Government Order (GO), signed by Additional Chief Secretary Dheeraj Kumar, the decision follows a recommendation from DGP (Prisons and Correctional Services) Maheshwar Dayal.

“It is purely for administrative reasons,” a senior prison official told media persons adding that staff and supplies from lightly used jails can now reinforce overcrowded sub-jails, district jails, and central prisons.

A woman was killed when the battery of an electric two-wheeler that was being charged, exploded in their house in Andhra Pradesh’s YSR Kadapa district on Friday.

The incident occurred in Potladurthi village of Yerraguntla mandal (block) of Kadapa district on Friday.

The scooty, which was kept on charging, exploded, resulting in the death of a woman, who was asleep on a sofa near the two-wheeler.

The woman identified as Venkata Lakshmamma (62) suffered burn injuries and died on the spot.

The vehicle caught fire with the explosion and was completely gutted. Some household items were partially burnt in the fire.

In yet another tragic incident, a class 1 student was crushed to death by a tipper lorry at Dundigal on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday.

The six-year-old child, who was on way to school with his mother on a scooty, came under the rear wheels of the tipper after both fell off the two-wheeler.

Abhimanshu was crushed to death in front of her mother. She apparently lost control of the scooty after being hit by the tipper.

The incident occurred at Mallampet under the limits of Dundigal Police Station of the Cyberabad Commissionerate in the Medchal Malkajgiri district.

The tragic incident was captured on CCTV camera. The incident led to a huge traffic jam. Police rushed to the spot and regulated the traffic.

This is the third such incident in Hyderabad in a week. The series of incidents has caused concern among citizens.

Notorious jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria’s mother Harjit Kaur was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Punjab’s Batala town, police said on Friday.

Bhagwanpuria is also an accused in the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. Kaur was going somewhere in an SUV when the goons came on a bike and opened fire on Thursday night near her house in the Urban Estate area, killing her and her driver Karanvir Singh.

She was referred to a hospital in Amritsar, but she succumbed to the bullet injuries, a police official said.

The Bambiha gang has claimed responsibility for the crime.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had arrested Bhagwanpuria under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act.

Delhi Police have begun an investigation into the death of a woman, who allegedly succumbed to injuries during treatment, after being sexually assaulted at a government hospital.

A police team led by Usmanpur SP reached the government-run hospital in North-East Delhi this morning to interrogate the suspects and question the hospital staff about the incident. The hospital administration has also formed a four-member team to assist the police team in cracking the case that has sent shockwaves across the national capital.

A 23-year-old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by another patient at the Jag Pravesh Chandra hospital two days ago. She died during treatment at GTB hospital on Wednesday, police said. A complaint of molestation was filed at New Usmanpur station on June 23.

A young woman created a scare by driving a car on a railway track near Hyderabad on Thursday.

The woman drove the car for about seven kilometres in the Rangareddy district, disrupting railway traffic for about two hours in the morning.

At a level crossing at Kondakal, she turned the car onto the track, sending panic among passersby. Locals tried to stop her at Nagulapalli, but she allegedly threatened them with a knife and sped away.

She drove the car for a distance of about seven kilometres between Nagulapalli and Shankarpalli. A train coming on the same track was stopped after the loco pilot applied the brakes on spotting the car, averting a disaster.

A Sub-Inspector and a constable of Andhra Pradesh Police were killed when a car in which they were travelling was hit by an unidentified vehicle in Telangana's Suryapet district on Thursday.

The accident occurred on the national highway near Durgapuram on the outskirts of Kodad town.

Police said the SI and the constable died on the spot, while two others were injured.

The deceased were identified as Ashok and Jeevan Blesson, SI and constable, respectively, at Alamuru Police Station in B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh.

The police personnel were coming to Hyderabad in a car. When they reached near Kodad town, an unidentified vehicle crashed into it from the rear. The unidentified vehicle sped away after the accident.

A horrific double murder took place in Lukaiya village under the Mufassil police station area of Jharkhand's Giridih district late on Wednesday night, triggering shock and anger in the locality, police officials said on Thursday.

According to police, a man stabbed his wife to death at her maternal home and was later beaten to death by her relatives and enraged villagers while he was attempting to flee.

The woman, identified as Meena Hansda, had been married to Chhotelal Hansda for the past eight years. However, relations between the couple had soured over time, prompting Meena to leave her husband’s home and return to her parental village.

In a significant breakthrough, the police in Bihar's Muzaffarpur arrested two dreaded criminals after an intense firing on Thursday morning.

Senior Superintendent of Police Sushil Kumar confirmed the arrest of Suraj Sahani and Neeraj Thakur, both natives of Motihari in East Champaran district, who were wanted in more than two dozen criminal cases across North Bihar.

“These criminals had a long history of involvement in serious crimes, including multiple loot cases at CHCs in Muzaffarpur, East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Samastipur, and adjoining districts,” SSP Kumar said.

In a shocking case suspected to be linked to a land dispute, a mother and son were found murdered inside their home in Mahddipur village under Pasraha police station in Khagaria district on Monday morning.

The victims have been identified as Phul Devi (60) and her son Pankaj Kumar (35). Both were shot dead and the accused also used a sharp-edge weapon to slit Kumar's throat.

According to preliminary investigations, the incident is believed to be connected to an ongoing dispute over 8 bighas of land.

The victim’s daughter, Savita Kumari, told police that the attack occurred while her mother and brother were asleep.