Grief-stricken Nousheeba (40) has been standing before the Meppadi family health centre for the last three days with swollen eyes. She walks up to the makeshift pandal each time a new body dug out of the landslide ravaged villages of Chooralmala and Meppadi is brought in for identification.

The Madhya Pradesh forest department considered ‘seizing’ a train responsible for the death of three tiger cubs on the Midghat-Budhni railway tracks. This follows a precedent set by the Assam government, which seized a locomotive after it killed an elephant and calf in 2020. The incident has deeply affected forest officers, emphasizing the need for strict measures against train overspeeding in tiger corridors.

Bihar CM office received a bomb threat e-mail on July 16.