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12 dead, thousands more stranded as Karnataka struggles with floods and rain

PTI -
Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa announced Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia for families of people killed in the flood, to be given in 24 hours.

Rains continue to batter Kerala, claims 22 lives & displaces more than 20,000 in 3 days

PTI -
A red alert has been issued in nine districts with the worst affected being Wayanad, Malappuram, Kannur and Idukki, as landslides and floods ravage the southern state.

How to tame swollen Ghaggar? Flood fear looms but consensus eludes Punjab, Haryana

Chitleen K Sethi -
Ghaggar river, which is already flowing above the danger mark, is expected to swell further with the forecast of more showers in the coming days.

China says its given satellite data on flood-hit regions to India

PTI -
China's Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said it had provided the data on ISRO's request.

Kaziranga needs to flood to survive, real problem is roads & hotels in animal escape path

Ananda Banerjee -
During floods, wild animals migrate towards Karbi-Anglong hills — an act of survival embedded in their DNA. But the animal corridors are now cramped.

Freak weather events pose new risk to India’s renewable energy goals

Anindya Upadhyay -
Extreme weather events have become latest risk to PM Modi’s renewable energy goal to quadruple solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022.

In Uttam Kumar & Sharmila Tagore’s film ‘Amanush’, floods restore faith in human spirit

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Directed and produced by Shakti Samanta in both Bengali and Hindi, Amanush is a classic and a lesson in the complexity of human emotions.

Not water, Chennai has a governance crisis. This ex-IAS officer has the solution

M.G. Devasahayam -
Chennai has lost several water bodies and more than one-fifth of its greenery in the last 20 years.

Uttarakhand could see catastrophic floods if global warming targets are not met

Pushp Bajaj -
Over 5,000 people died when an unprecedented spell of rain over four days flooded Uttarakhand during peak tourist season in 2013.

Kerala floods: Some abnormal weather, but mostly a man-made calamity

Rohini Swamy -
It’s not just ‘nature’s fury’ which has led to this disaster – experts say most of the damage is due to poor land and river management.
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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