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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicFloods

Topic: floods

Price surge spells ‘hell’ for India’s gold sales as demand wanes

A combination of high taxes, record prices, slowing economic growth and floods are poised to erode India’s gold demand in the peak festival season.

Himachal still reeling under heavy rains, death toll rises to 25 & over 500 stranded

Heavy rains have been lashing Himachal Pradesh since Saturday, causing floods, triggering landslides and causing a damage of Rs 574 crore.

How Maharashtra govt ‘botched up’ in tackling floods worse than 2005 deluge

Maharashtra govt facing flak for delayed response and ‘excessive’ release of water from dams that aggravated situation in Sangli, Satara & Kolhapur.

Chinese ‘Kong’ eyes Ladakh and jingoism drowns democracy on Independence Day

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Rehabilitation of flood-affected in record time: Fadnavis’ I-Day promise to Maharashtra

CM Devendra Fadnavis also said efforts will be made to make Maharashtra drought-free by diverting rainwater to Marathwada and northern region.

Maharashtra parties promise not to politicise floods, then do just that a week later

From distributing relief packages with leaders’ photos on them to talking up their own relief work, all Maharashtra parties have politicised the flood crisis.

Amit Shah to conduct aerial survey as death toll in Karnataka floods rises to 31

An official release said the death toll has risen to 31, with four more deaths Saturday night, while 14 people were missing.

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

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

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

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.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.