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At around 1.30 am on Thursday, Sub-Inspector Manoj Bhatt of the Nandnagar police station in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli got a call from the district control room regarding a debris slide incident in a village just over a kilometre away. In 10 minutes, a team reached the area and found it covered in 15 feet of debris. “A two-storey house was totally submerged. We could hear cries from inside,” Rawat said. What ensued was an hours-long operation involving central and state disaster response forces. By Thursday evening, they had found two bodies while seven remained missing.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defence pact on Wednesday, formalising a defence and security partnership dating back to the 1960s. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, embraced after signing the agreement. Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was also present. While not many details about the pact are out yet, a key clause has made headlines around the world: “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both”.
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The Centre on Thursday approved a proposal by the Punjab government to declare the state “severely flooded”, it has been learnt. This came on a day Union Ministers Jitendra Singh and Jitin Prasada visited flood-hit areas in Pathankot and Gurdaspur, and assessed the damage due to the floods.
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