Nitish Kumar will take oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the eighth time today at 2 pm, after he ditched the BJP on Tuesday and announced a new "Grand Alliance" which includes Tejashwi Yadav and other Opposition parties; Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member cabinet, 40 days after taking oath as the Chief Minister, by inducting 18 ministers, nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena faction and the BJP; Cars were seen being washed away on streets that resembled overflowing rivers from a disaster movie in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Tuesday. Many low-lying areas were submerged after heavy rain, and other top stories.