Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate ‘Semicon India 2025’, a conference aimed at catalysing India’s semiconductor ecosystem, here on Tuesday.

Heavy rains lashed several parts of northern India, creating traffic snarls in Delhi-NCR, and extensive flash floods in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.