New Delhi: Death toll rises to 52 in Uttarakhand rains. 17 people have not been found yet.  Five people were killed in the Darjeeling area.  Two people drowned in the Torsha River.  Home Minister Amit Shah will today conduct an aerial survey of the rain-hit areas.

 With the opening of the Garhwal and Badrinath roads, the journey to Char Dham resumed. Transportation to Nainital, which was isolated in the floods, has been restored.  Widespread landslides hit Darjeeling in West Bengal.  Roads collapsed in many places.  The river Teesta wept.  Siliguri has stopped traffic on NH-55, the main thoroughfare of Darjeeling.

Traffic was also disrupted on the Siliguri-Gangtok route.  Red Alert has been declared in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Alipurdhar.  The river Ganga overflowed at Haridwar.  Snowfall is also heavy in the Himalayan states. In the last three days, the Disaster Management Force has rescued about 8,000 people in Uttarakhand.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on Aryan Khan’s bail application in connection with the luxury ship’s drug case.

Aryan’s lawyers have asked the court to consider the petition immediately through video conference. Last day, a special NDPS court in Mumbai denied Aryan bail.  Following this, Aryan’s lawyers filed a petition in the High Court.

Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan arrives to meet Aryan Khan, who is lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail.  Shah Rukh Khan arrived at the jail on Thursday morning.  The visit lasted only a few minutes.  He immediately returned from here.

Shah Rukh Khan did not respond to media reports.  Aryan, who was arrested during a drunken party on a luxury ship, has been lodged in the Mumbai Arthur Road Jail for the past three weeks.

Mumbai: Another big drug bust in Mumbai. Woman arrested with drugs worth Rs. 22 crores. They were arrested by the Narcotics Cell of the Mumbai Police from the Zion area.

Mumbai police said that a case has been registered against the accused under the NDPS Act. The Narcotics Cell is conducting inspections at various places in Mumbai.

New Delhi: The death toll from the Uttarakhand cloudburst has risen to 47. The search for the missing continues. It is reported that many more are yet to be found. Heavy rains are still being recorded in the area.

The cloudburst occurred at Ramghat in Nainital. In Nainital alone, 25 people are reported dead. The death toll is likely to rise further as the rains intensify.

People are stranded in different parts of the state. More than 100 people are trapped in Nainital. Many roads are submerged. The low-lying areas were also flooded. All the shutters of Nanak Sagar Dam are open.

The government has banned travel to various pilgrimage sites in the wake of the floods. Many pilgrims are stranded at the Badrinath temple after the landslide disrupted traffic on the national highway. The rising water level in the Nandakini River is also a cause for concern. Rani rescues 100 stranded at Lemon Tree Resort on Rani Ket Route Ten Kolkata natives rescued from Rudranath
The rescue operation is being carried out by police, SDRF, and NDRF teams. The Air Force and three helicopters are on the scene for the rescue operation. About a thousand people have been evacuated from different parts of Uttarakhand.

The Prime Minister and Home Minister assessed the situation in Uttarakhand. According to the Central Meteorological Department, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan will continue to receive rains till May 23. Widespread rainfall in the northern states is due to the formation of low pressure in the Bay of Bengal.

Srinagar: Indian Army killed two militants in clashes in Shopian, Jammu, and Kashmir. The clash took place in the Dragad area this morning. One of the dead has been identified as Adil Wani. According to the Kashmir Zone Police, he is accused of the murder of a local in Pulwama.

The search is still ongoing in the Shopian area. There have been eleven clashes with terrorists in the last few days. Fifteen terrorists have been killed by the army in two weeks. The BSF has seized a large cache of weapons near the international border in Ferozepur, Punjab. More than two dozen pistols and ammunition were seized. The BSF said that these were made in Pakistan.