Guwahati: When floodwaters burst into his home, 11-year-old shuttler Satyaki Dorian Duarah had only minutes to react. He grabbed two packets of biscuits and three bottles of water and scrambled with his family to the unfinished upper floor.The provisions were meagre, but they kept four people going for two days as flash floods swallowed the…
Guwahati: When floodwaters burst into his home, 11-year-old shuttler Satyaki Dorian Duarah had only minutes to react. He grabbed two packets of biscuits and three bottles of water and scrambled with his family to the unfinished upper floor.The provisions were meagre, but they kept four people going for two days as flash floods swallowed the…
Guwahati: From a schoolboy clinging to a tree with his mother through the night in his flooded school campus at Nazira to countless families taking refuge on rooftops, the devastating floods sweeping through Assam’s Sivasagar and Charaideo districts have left behind scenes of unprecedented destruction.Triggered by torrential runoff from the hills of neighbouring Nagaland, the…
Rainwater floods the underconstruction railway tunnel in Boudh district Bhubaneswar: Rainwater mixed with mud entered an under-construction railway tunnel near Adenigarh in Boudh district following a deluge on Saturday and Sunday. The tunnel is part of the Dasapalla-Purunakatak section of Khurda-Balangir new railway line.Repair work will be taken up after the rain stops, railway sources…
