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Krishna river has been overflowing as Maharashtra is facing heavy rains putting 39 villages on high alert in Karnataka. 16 bridges are inundated, and transportation facilities have been blocked due to Belagavi floods.

Floods in Godavari have inundated 30 villages in Andhra Pradesh. Warning with respect to heavy rains until August 5 has been issued.

At a time when the state of Tamil Nadu is reeling under acute water crisis, two villages in Ramanathapuram district were left protesting for better water supply. District collector Veera Raghava Rao has asked the local panchayat officials to arrange water supply. 

Rain for over a week have caused floods in Mizoram in Northeast India. With 205 villages affected, as many as 5,000 people have been lodged in relief camps.

The diktat was passed "unanimously" in a meeting on July 14 by elders of the community from 12 villages states parents of those from the community going in for inter-caste marriages of their children will be fined Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh

The dam breach caused a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages, with 12 houses being swept away

Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka BJP president has posed 10 questions to state chief minister Kumaraswamy. These questions target Kumaraswamy’s stay in villages

Veteran Congress leader, former chief minister of Karnataka, Veerappa Moily slammed chief minister Kumaraswamy for taking on a village stay tour

Raichur villagers have a tough time as they are neither able to stay back and work on their fields nor leave their village.
 

Srikakulam natives are living in fear. On Saturday, a herd of elephants entered the maize fields at Seetharampalli and surrounding villages and damaged the crops in Andhra Pradesh. Locals are worried they'd be attacked by the elephants any time.
 

Thousands of villagers still need to visit the bank to check their balance.
 

To take the required safety measures, the Odisha government has evacuated more than 11 lakh people from the coastal areas.

Twelve coaches of the Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh early on Saturday, injuring at least 15 people. Cases have been booked against at least 1,000 people who were involved in violent protests and Section 144 has been imposed in Ponnamaravathi and 30 surrounding villages. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

 

Following the violence in Ponnamaravathi on Friday, the police have filed cases against 1,000 people who took part in the violent protests and prohibitory orders have been imposed in 30 surrounding villages
 

Ambedkar inverted Mahatma Gandhi's economic vision. Gandhi wanted the villages to stay as the nodal points of economic activity, but Ambedkar felt that villages as centres of economic activities nurtured caste exploitation.