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TopicNepal floods

Topic: Nepal floods

An SMS alert gave workers in flood-hit Rasuwa 30 seconds to run—‘Water was rushing in’

‘I ran like I had never run before. Others might not be so lucky,’ said Arjun Remal who was working on a bridge in Nepal’s Rasuwa when the flood hit.

How a Facebook post helped a teacher find two missing children after Nepal floods

After spotting the names of two children from his hometown in a Facebook post, teacher Bishnu Prasad Paudel searched across five hospitals before finally finding the brothers injured but alive.

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Punjab’s biggest IAS batch in 30 years has no real work. Govt is keeping them in waiting room

None of the 10 IAS officers of the 2024 batch has been posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate. They've been made Officers on Special Duty, a designation with no real work.

West Bengal’s debt near 40% of GSDP, interest payments account for 21% of revenue, says NCAER paper

Weak revenue mobilisation, high spending, low capital outlay limiting state’s fiscal space, says August 2026 NCAER working paper for Niti Aayog. Suggests stronger tax & non-tax revenue mobilisation.

After pact with Saudi-Turkey, Pakistan inks deal with Kuwait for defence cooperation, ‘common interests’

Building on 2023 accord, new deal aims to establish greater operational coordination, exchanges of military expertise & closer integration between the countries’ armed forces.

Munir’s latest power grab is proof of his paranoia. Dictatorship and delusion go together

At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.