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Seven persons have died in heavy rainfall in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said. The rain also led to some rivers rising to alarming levels, he added.

Mumbai and its neighbouring districts of Thane, Palghar and Raigad have been issued a red alert for very heavy rainfall on Tuesday. An orange alert has been sounded for heavy rain on Wednesday.

The India Meteorological Department said that heavy rainfall will continue in the state till Thursday.

Mumbai received 170 millimetres of rainfall in just eight hours on Monday. Between Friday morning and Monday evening, Mumbai had recorded over 550 mm of rain.

In Delhi, the Yamuna river crossed the danger mark of 205.33 metres on Monday for the first time in two years. In 2023, the river reached an all-time high of 208.66 m on July 13, breaching embankments and causing widespread flooding in several areas along the river. Read more.

The Press Club of India and the Indian Women’s Press Corps criticised the Assam Police decision to file a sedition case against journalists Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar of The Wire. The first information report registered against Varadarajan, the founding editor of the news portal, and Thapar were vindictive actions, the two associations said.

The press bodies demanded that the cases be immediately withdrawn.

On August 12, the Assam Police’s Crime Branch in Guwahati issued a summons to Varadarajan in an FIR pertaining to an article about Operation Sindoor published in The Wire. The summons came even as the Supreme Court, on the same day, had granted Varadarajan and members of the foundation running the news outlet protection from arrest in another FIR filed by the Assam Police.

The Wire received summons for Thapar on Monday, said the news outlet. Read on.

Former Supreme Court judge B Sudarshan Reddy will be the Opposition INDIA bloc’s candidate for the vice presidential election. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge announced that the coalition had decided to nominate a joint candidate for the polls.

Reddy was a judge in the Andhra Pradesh High Court in 1995 before becoming the chief justice of the Gauhati High Court in 2005. He was a judge of the Supreme Court between 2007 and 2011, when he retired.

The INDIA bloc’s announcement came two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party said that Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan will be the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s candidate for the vice presidential election.

The vice president is also the Rajya Sabha chairperson. The polls to elect the vice president are scheduled for September 9, and the result will be announced later that day. Read on.

A cartoonist from Indore booked for depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in a purportedly undignified manner told the Supreme Court that he would publish an apology on social media. The court was hearing a petition filed by the cartoonist Hemant Malviya, seeking anticipatory bail in the case registered against him in Madhya Pradesh.

The bench said that Malviya should publish the apology within 10 days and extended the interim protection from arrest granted to him till the next hearing.

On July 15, the court had granted the cartoonist interim protection from arrest but cautioned that if he continued to share posts on social media of works deemed to be offensive, the Madhya Pradesh government would be free to take action against him.

The order had come after Malviya submitted an apology for his social media post. A day earlier, the cartoonist had agreed to delete the post after being criticised by the court. Read on.

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