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Nepal flash floods aftermath LIVE: PM Shah links devastating floods to climate change as death toll crosses 1,050.

  Nepal flash floods aftermath LIVE: PM Shah links devastating floods to climate change as death toll crosses 1,050. D evastating floods on the China-Nepal border have killed at least 1,050 people in Nepal, the disaster authority said on Tuesday (September 1, 2026), with nearly 4,000 more missing. Security forces are recovering more bodies from eight districts of the country, officials said. Around 4,000 people remain missing, while nearly 12,000 have been rescued, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said. Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Tuesday said that the devastating flood that entered Rasuwa through the Bhotekoshi River bordering Tibet last week was due to climate change. “There is no doubt that climate change has caused this disaster, as it has been confirmed that the temperature in the Himalayan region has increased by 1.8 degrees,” he said in a post on social media. Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Tuesday (September 1) said...

Three candidates shortlisted for Ram Janmabhoomi Trust’s first CEO.

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  Three candidates shortlisted for Ram Janmabhoomi Trust’s first CEO. The Trust is expected to choose one of the three at a meeting on September 2; names of the shortlisted candidates have not been disclosed, but sources said the panel includes candidates from government and private sectors. Members of the high-level selection committee, including search committee head Justice (Retd.) Pramod Kohli, second right, along with Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust officials, present the final recommendation report for the appointment of the temple's first Chief Executive Officer (CEO), in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. 

Supreme Court quashes FIRs against against Gen Z NEET-UG protesters under Article 142.

  Supreme Court quashes FIRs against against Gen Z NEET-UG protesters under Article 142. The Supreme Court, on the urging of the Union government, took a rare and extraordinary step on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) to quash criminal cases registered against Gen Z protesters involved in nationwide protests linked to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) following the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak.

What are AK-203s stolen from Army’s infantry unit in Hyderabad?

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  What are AK-203s stolen from Army’s infantry unit in Hyderabad? The presence of AK-203 rifles at a unit stationed in Secunderabad Cantonment, a peacetime location away from India’s forward border areas, raises a natural question, why would a relatively new assault rifle intended for infantry operations be held by such a unit? The AK-203 has come into focus after four such rifles were reported missing from an Army storage facility in the Bollarum area of Secunderabad Cantonment in Hyderabad. The weapons were among several service firearms and ammunition reported missing by the 20 Madras Regiment.

Avoid ‘unfamiliar, unusual’ fish from Nepal’s flood waters, Bihar govt. advisory cautions.

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  Avoid ‘unfamiliar, unusual’ fish from Nepal’s flood waters, Bihar govt. advisory cautions. In recent days, people living in East and West Champaran districts, Gopalganj, Bagaha, and Saran have reported catching ‘strange-looking’ large fish; a comprehensive advisory against catching, consuming, buying or selling unfamiliar fish had been issued to ‘avoid any contamination’, Bihar Fisheries Minister Nand Kishor Ram says. Against the backdrop of the devastating flash flood in Nepal, which has left hundreds dead and many more missing, the Dairy, Fisheries and Animal Resources Department of Bihar on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) issued a public advisory cautioning against the consumption of “unfamiliar and unusual” fish caught from the flood waters flowing into the State’s rivers from Nepal.