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Indian PM Modi assures help for rain-hit Karnataka

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Torrential rainfall and floods have battered south Indian states in the past few weeks because of the retreating monsoon. Extremely heavy rainfall battered southern cities of Bengaluru and Chennai on Monday, leaving roads and residential areas waterlogged. In Karnataka's capital Bengaluru, one of the areas which has borne the brunt of the rains, there has been power cuts and damage to property. Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday spoke to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and offered Centre's all necessary cooperation and assistance. Indian Army Colonel Santosh Babu, who laid down his life on his observation post while resisting an attack by the Chinese Army in northern Galwan Valley last year, was awarded the second-highest wartime gallantry medal posthumously by President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday. Activists of nationalist organisation JSMM, Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, have been holding demonstrations across Sindh to demand independence from what they term as fascist, terrorist and theocratic state of Pakistan. Activists have long accused that Pakistani Army uses enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and political repression as tools to silence voices of Sindhis. JSMM has been demanding Sindhudesh, a separate homeland for Sindhis. An abrupt withdrawal of most foreign development support after the Taliban seized power on August 15 from Afghanistan's Western-backed government has sent the economy into freefall.  Around 25 men accused of plotting the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombings were produced before the Colombo High Court on Tuesday, as lawyers warned of a long and complicated legal battle ahead. Earlier on Monday, Sri Lanka’s former police chief Pujith Jayasundera was indicted with 855 charges of criminal negligence for failing to act despite receiving prior intelligence warnings in the attacks that killed nearly 270 people. Nepal has started inoculating its teenage population using the Pfizer vaccine in hospitals across the Himalayan nation since Monday. In the three-day vaccination drive, the Nepal government aims to inoculate up to 46,000 people. More than 90 artisans and craftsmen are being trained to enhance their skills as part of a two-week-long workshop which is underway in India's northeastern Manipur state. The initiative aims to preserve the dying traditional crafts and designs of Manipur.
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