Girl swept away in flood waters in Telangana
The Hindu
Earlier in the day, a TSRTC bus was stuck in the waterlogged road.
A seven-year-old girl was killed in a rain-related incident in Palvancha town and normal life was paralysed as intermittent spells of heavy rain pounded many parts of the district leading to waterlogging on roads in Kothagudem, Palvancha and elsewhere in the district on Monday. A girl identified as Anjali of Jayamma Colony in Palvancha, while accompanying her mother and ten-year-old brother to a grocery shop near her house, accidentally fell into an overflowing drain and was swept away by a gush of storm water. Her brother also slipped into the drain but was pulled out swiftly by a passer-by, sources said.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.