Village On High Alert

A Jharkhand village - Haradag Khurd in Garhwa district- has been put on high alert post detection of as many as 21 COVID-19 positive villagers in a short span of two days after return of migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh, officials said Friday.

Rains flood this area every year. This year, floods first came in June but the water receded, and then came this week's deluge. Volumes of water from the swelling Bramhaputra is flowing into the Beki on whose floodplains rests Barpeta's Kalgachia village, leading to unprecedented inundation. The only things visible other than water are submerged hu...

Swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts have reached the outskirts of Delhi after entering Gurugram this morning. Multiple videos shot by residents of Gurugram city and villages in the district this morning show massive clusters of locusts flying in.

With the Godavari and Krishna rivers in spate following rains, the government machinery is on high alert and hundreds of villagers on the banks have been shifted to safer places as many hamlets were inundated, officials said yesterday.

The Pathankot and Gurdaspur districts of Punjab were put on high alert on Wednesday after three 'suspicious' persons went missing after abandoning a robbed SUV at a village in Pathankot.

No village in Rajasthan will be evacuated even though the authorities have announced a "high alert" along the international border following the surgical strikes by India on terror launchpads across the Line of Control last night.

Security agencies were on their toes and a combing operation was on in and around Tibri military cantonment area in Punjab, a day after some locals in a nearby village claimed sighting of two men in army fatigue moving in suspicious manner.

The water level in the Ganga in Kanpur is a mere 46-cm below the danger mark, prompting the district administration to issue a high alert for the villages situated on the banks of the river, officials said.

A Jharkhand village - Haradag Khurd in Garhwa district- has been put on high alert post detection of as many as 21 COVID-19 positive villagers in a short span of two days after return of migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh, officials said Friday.

Rains flood this area every year. This year, floods first came in June but the water receded, and then came this week's deluge. Volumes of water from the swelling Bramhaputra is flowing into the Beki on whose floodplains rests Barpeta's Kalgachia village, leading to unprecedented inundation. The only things visible other than water are submerged hu...

Swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts have reached the outskirts of Delhi after entering Gurugram this morning. Multiple videos shot by residents of Gurugram city and villages in the district this morning show massive clusters of locusts flying in.

With the Godavari and Krishna rivers in spate following rains, the government machinery is on high alert and hundreds of villagers on the banks have been shifted to safer places as many hamlets were inundated, officials said yesterday.

The Pathankot and Gurdaspur districts of Punjab were put on high alert on Wednesday after three 'suspicious' persons went missing after abandoning a robbed SUV at a village in Pathankot.

No village in Rajasthan will be evacuated even though the authorities have announced a "high alert" along the international border following the surgical strikes by India on terror launchpads across the Line of Control last night.

Security agencies were on their toes and a combing operation was on in and around Tibri military cantonment area in Punjab, a day after some locals in a nearby village claimed sighting of two men in army fatigue moving in suspicious manner.

The water level in the Ganga in Kanpur is a mere 46-cm below the danger mark, prompting the district administration to issue a high alert for the villages situated on the banks of the river, officials said.