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With the festival of Raksha Bandhan fast approaching, celebrations broke out across India. Army personnel who were part of the rescue operations in flood-hit regions received rakhis from those they rescued. 

Karnataka BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde was threatened by his voters as they would not elect him if he does not provide compensation to the flood-hit victims in north Karnataka. Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has earned the wrath of a court in Kolkata as it has issued an arrest warrant against him. The order comes in the wake of an advocate named Sumeet Chowdhary filing a case against the MP for his Hindu Pakistan remark in July last year. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for all the top stories from across the country.

While North Karnataka and Maharashtra witnessed massive flooding due to the overflow of water from rivers, 41 Navy teams were deployed in difficult terrains in the flood-hit states

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People of the flood-hit areas in north Karnataka’s Belagavi took BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde to task and threatened him with slogans of ‘no vote without compensation’
 

Floods can be ravaging and devastating. It is essential that preventive measures are taken so that their impact can be mitigated. For this purpose, the management of dams is also very important

 

Though last year the Southern districts of Kerala faced the brunt of nature's fury, this time around it is the northern parts of the state which are at the receiving end of the monsoon onslaught.

 

While several parts of North Karnataka and Malnad region are suffering from severe flooding, a crocodile was seen resting on top of a house in Belagavi district, adjacent to River Krishna

BJP MLA from Honnali, near Davanagere, Karnataka was seen oaring a coracle in shallow waters. As the video went viral, people began to wonder if the effort was sincere of just for the shutterbugs

Section 144 withdrawn in Jammu: Officials said there were minor incidents of stone pelting in Sopore town of north Kashmir, 50 km from Srinagar, but was contained immediately and the crowd dispersed
 

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar took to Twitter and announced that he would contribute Rs 1 crore from MPLAD for the relief work of north Karnataka floods

Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and other members of his party JDS would donate their one month’s salary towards flood relief activities in rain-battered North Karnataka

 

Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa visited north Karnataka including Belagavi which is affected by heavy rain and floods
 

As chief minister CM BS Yediyurappa camps in the rain-torn districts of North Karnataka, people continue to face the wrath of the rain gods.

At the receiving end for preoccupying himself with the formation of Cabinet, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa has rushed to Belagavi to oversee relief work, as directed by Amit Shah. However, the Congress has still not stopped criticising him.