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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: floods

Venice in state of ’emergency’ as floods, tide threaten to submerge city

Venice will soon be underwater if climate change isn’t controlled, warned an Italian national agency as the highest floods since 1966 damaged crops and roads.

Why India got more rainfall in September 1917 than 2019 but there were no major floods

September this year was the wettest India has seen since 1917, and triggered widespread floods in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Bhanu Mehta’s ‘conflict on faith’, TKA Nair’s next steps in J&K, Mihir Shah on floods

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

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.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.