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At least four people were killed and many others were injured due to flooding caused by a cloudburst in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said on Sunday, NDTV reported.

The cloudburst struck a village in Janglote during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is a member of Parliament from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, said a railway track, the National Highway-44 and a police station were also damaged in the cloudburst, according to NDTV.

A man and his wife were electrocuted at Pipara in Kanchanrup Municipality-5 of Saptari on Sunday. 

The deceased have been identified as Badri Sardar (50) and his wife Bimala Devi (45), said Madhav Prasad Kafle, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.

Mahendra Sardar of Pipara, Kanchanrup-5, had installed a live electric wire to protect the paddy crop from elephants. The Sardar couple died after falling on the same exposed wire. 

They were going to their farmland about 150 meters east of their house, when the incident took place early this morning, according to the police.

Foreign Secretary of India Vikram Misri arrived in Kathmandu on a two-day official visit to Nepal on Sunday.

Secretary Misri, who is here at the cordial invitation of Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai, will hold discussions with his Nepali counterpart on various aspects of the Nepal-India partnership, with a focus on connectivity, development cooperation and other matters of mutual interest, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Indian Foreign Secretary is also scheduled to call on high-level dignitaries of Nepal. 

He is scheduled to leave Kathmandu tomorrow.

Pro-democracy activists and labor groups held hundreds of rallies and other events across the United States on Saturday protesting the Trump administration's push for Texas to redraw its congressional map in favor of Republicans, Reuters reported

Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke was among those who spoke on Saturday in Texas, from which dozens of Democratic state lawmakers fled to deny Republicans the quorum needed to vote on a redistricting plan that President Donald Trump had demanded.

"They do this because they are afraid," O'Rourke told an audience on Saturday, speaking of those attempting redistricting. "They fear this power they see here today."

Drucilla Tigner, executive director of pro-democracy coalition Texas For All, told Reuters pro-democracy and labor groups held over 300 events attended by tens of thousands of people in 44 states and Washington, D.C., according to Reuters.

The Republican governors of three states are deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., at the request of the administration of President Donald Trump, who has portrayed the city as awash in crime, Reuters reported.

The announcements on Saturday of troops from hundreds of kilometers away in West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio came a day after D.C. officials and the Trump administration negotiated a deal to keep Mayor Muriel Bowser's appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, in charge of the police department after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit to block the federal takeover of the department.

Trump, a Republican, said last week he was deploying hundreds of D.C. National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the Democratic-led city's police department to curb what he depicted as a crime and homelessness emergency.

Justice Department data, however, showed violent crime in 2024 hit a 30-year low in Washington, a self-governing federal district under the jurisdiction of Congress, according to Reuters.

Fresh clashes erupted between anti-government protesters and riot police across Serbia in the fifth night of unrest in a row, after offices of the the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) were set on fire, BBC reported.

Police in Valjevo reportedly used stun grenades and tear gas on protesters after a small group of masked people attacked the empty facilities of the SNS, setting them on fire.

There were widespread allegations of violence and police brutality in the capital, Belgrade, and Novi Sad. Serbia's interior ministry has denied these allegations, according to BBC.

It comes as Russia pledged to shore up the beleaguered pro-Moscow President Aleksandar Vučić, who leads the SNS, saying it would not "remain unresponsive".

The Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was blocked since this morning due to a dry landslide, has been opened for traffic. 

The road section at Tuinkhola in Ichchakamana Rural Municipality-5 of Chitwan was obstructed due to a landslide.

According to Rabindra Khanal, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Chitwan, traffic has resumed on the road sector after the landslide debris, including rocks that had fallen on the road were cleared. 

A total of 2,853 incidents of disasters have occurred across the country from mid-April 19 to mid-August this year. In the incidents, 126 people have lost their lives while 585 were injured.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, altogether 5,041 families have been affected while 23 people have gone missing due to disaster including 216 incidents of floods, 317 of landslides, 221 of heavy rains and 245 of lightning. Another 77 incidents of snakebites have also occurred across the country.

Similarly, 1,114 incidents of fires, 158 of wildfires, 277 of storms, 172 of wild animal attacks, 46 of landslides, five of earthquakes, two of boat capsizing, one incident of hailstorm and other disasters have occurred.

According to the NDRRMA, seven incidents of fire, one flood, eight landslides, four incessant rains, and three wild animal attacks occurred on August 16 alone, which led to the death of one person.

 The estimated damage caused by the disaster is around Rs 3.84 million.