Breaking news from cities

Uttarakhand rains: Red alert will continue for another 24 hours. Intensity of rainfall will reduce after tomorrow. Light to moderate rainfall will occur from 15 August. But there is a need to stay alert till tomorrow, says Bikram Singh, IMD, Dehradun. (ANI)

Jammu and Kashmir: Vaishno Devi pilgrimage via new battery car track has been suspended after Reasi-Udhampur highway was blocked due to landslide triggered by heavy rains. (ANI)

Dehradun: All government and private schools as well as Anganwadi centres in the district will remain closed today due to incessant rains in the region. (ANI)

Mumbai: A fire erupts in a godown at Ganpatrao Kadam Marg near Shree Ram Mills in Worli; no casualties reported yet.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away. He was 89.

Kerala: Union Home Minster Rajnath Singh arrives in Kochi. He will conduct aerial survey of the flood-affected areas in Idukki district.

Muzaffarpur shelter home case: CBI releases accused Brajesh Thakur's son after questioning. He was detained yesterday.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan announces ex-gratia Rs 4 Lakh to the next of the kin of the deceased and Rs 10 Lakh compensation to those who lost their houses and land. (ANI)

Kerala floods: All shutters of Idukki dam open after 40 years. 7,500 families to be shifted to the relief camps.

4th shutter of Idukki dam opens now. By 2 pm, water flow might double to 6 lakh per second.

Aarushi case: Fresh legal trouble for Talwars as SC admits CBI appeal against their acquittal, reports TV.

At 9 am, the water level is 2401.22ft in Idukki. The average net inflow in six hours is at 436 cubic metres per second. The water is being discharged at 1.25 lakh litres per second from three shutters which have been opened at 40 cm height.

The India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in a few places on Friday and advised fishermen not to venture over southwest and central Arabian sea. The MeT department has also forecast strong winds from northwesterly direction, with speeds occasionally reaching 25-35 kmph gusting to 45 kmph, likely along and off Kerala coast.

22 kitchen rooms of Kitchen complex at Ananta Basudev temple in Bhubaneswar gutted in fire on Friday morning. Three fire brigades engaged for two hours to douse the fire.

As a measure of precaution, Cochin airport closes for all arrival flights stopping from 1.10 pm today .

Schools to be shut in Amravati on August 9 in view of the Maharashtra bandh scheduled tomorrow.

Delhi HC strikes down legal provision criminalising begging in national capital. (PTI)

At least 80 incidents of violence reported across Tamil Nadu following the death of former CM M Karunanidhi: Police

Chennai: Five injured, two seriously, in a stampede near Periyar statue.

Madras high court gives nod for former Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi's burial at Marina.