![]() The India Meteorological Department has predicted that heavy rain will continue until Friday.īut the intense rain is not the primary cause for the waterlogging – poor city planning is to blame, says Vishwanath S, an urban planner and civil engineer, who teaches a course on water as an adjunct professor in Azim Premji University. The previous 24-hour period saw 131.6 mm of rainfall pour down on Bengaluru, its wettest day since 2014. The city, regarded as India’s high-technology hub, received 99 mm of rain in the 24 hours until 8.30 am on Tuesday. So far, one person has been reported to have died as a result of the downpour. Munjal was among the thousands of Bengaluru residents who have been forced out of their homes by the intense rains that have flooded several parts of the city, leading to waterlogged residential complexes, power outages, massive traffic jams and disruptions in flights. “Family and my Pet Albus has been evacuated on a Tractor from our society that’s now submerged,” his message said. On Tuesday morning, Gaurav Munjal, the chief executive officer of education-technology firm Unacademy tweeted a video of his family and pet dog leaving their Bengaluru residential complex in a tractor. Why the body positivity movement risks turning toxic.Hyderabad Liberation: An Urdu journalist’s murder in 1948 warns India about the perils of autocracy.Watch: Lucknow Divisional Commissioner stands in knee-deep water to inspect waterlogging.Caught on camera: Part of glacier in Patagonia, Chile collapses owing to rising temperature.Opinion: With the Queen’s death, the system of looting and genocide she represented should end too.Why India must urgently tackle the challenge of multidrug resistant pathogens.‘Dahan: Raakan Ka Rahasya’ review: An overheated battle between rationality and superstition.Withdraw recognition to AAP, 56 former bureaucrats and diplomats urge Election Commission.A single mother (and a counsellor) gives advice on how to have awkward conversations with a child.Opinion: Events in West Asia are changing Pakistan’s sociopolitical and ideological outlook.How the Centre’s disastrous decisions on vaccines cost the lives of lakhs of Indians.Watch: Woman hits toll plaza staff member when asked to pay, she hits back.
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