Gujarat is witnessing its second spell of monsoon showers, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall in several parts of the state over the next 48 hours.

Yellow alerts are in place for Bhavnagar, Amreli, Junagadh and Gir-Somnath, where light to moderate rainfall is expected.

The rest of the state will remain under an orange alert, with moderate to heavy rain predicted.

Widespread rain is expected across Saurashtra, North Gujarat and South Gujarat till August 23.

In a shocking incident, five members of a family were found dead under suspicious circumstances at their house in Hyderabad on Thursday.

A man, his wife, daughter, son-in-law and two-year-old child were found dead at their house in Maktha Mahabubpet under the limits of Miyapur police station of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate.

Alerted by the neighbours, police rushed to the spot and launched an investigation. The Clues team of Cyberabad Police was collecting evidence from the spot.

Those found dead have been identified as Lakshmaiah (60), Venkatamma (55), Anil (32), Kavita (24) and Appu (2).

They hailed from the Gulbarga district of Karnataka and had been living in the city for the last six years.

A tragic bus accident on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway claimed one life and left 40 others injured on Thursday morning near the Jatwal area of J&K's Samba district.

The incident occurred when a private passenger bus, ferrying devotees from Kathua to the sacred town of Katra, lost control after a reported tyre burst. The bus veered off the highway and plunged nearly 30 feet from a bridge near Jatwal, crashing into a dry canal bed below.

One pilgrim, identified as Iqwal Singh from Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, died on the spot. Around 40 other passengers sustained injuries in the accident. Emergency services responded swiftly, and the injured were rushed to District Hospital Samba, where they received first aid. Doctors later referred eight critically injured passengers to AIIMS Vijaypur for treatment.

Police and administrative teams immediately reached the scene to carry out rescue and relief operations. Authorities have launched an investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident.

Eight Maoists, carrying a combined bounty of Rs 30 lakh, surrendered in the Naxal-affected Abujhmad region of Chhattisgarh before Narayanpur Superintendent of Police.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the Project Director of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in Telangana and a private person while accepting a bribe.

In a tragic incident, six children, including a girl, drowned in a pond in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district on Wednesday.

Heavy rain lashed Gujarat's coastal Saurashtra region, with Devbhumi Dwarka district recording the highest rainfall of 11 inches, including 10.75 inches in Kalyanpur and 6 inches in Dwarka taluka.

The rainfall was recorded in the past 24 hours.

Porbandar received around 4 inches of rainfall, Mangrol 3.74 inches, Sutrapada 3.35 inches, and Jafrabad over 3 inches.

In Junagadh's Mendarda taluka, nearly 10 inches of rain poured in just four hours between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Wednesday, while Vanthali and Keshod saw over 5 inches and 4 inches, respectively. Heavy showers were also reported from Bhavnagar's Mahuva (4.76 inches) and Gir-Somnath's Talala (4 inches).

Authorities issued first flood warning at Bhadrachalam on Wednesday as the water level continues to rise in Godavari River due to heavy inflows.

With water level crossing 43 feet at Bhadrachalam in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana, the officials issued first flood warning.

Officials said 9.32 lakh cusecs water was being released downstream. People living in villages across the course of Godavari have been alerted.

Both Godavari and Krishna rivers which flow through Telangana and Andhra Pradesh remained in spate.

The first warning level remained in effect at Prakasam Barrage, Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA) has alerted people in the downstream of Prakasam Barrage.

At least four people were killed in a road accident and four others were injured on the Kota-Udaipur highway in Rajasthan's Bundi district early Wednesday morning, said officials

The collision occurred near the Baba Ramdev temple in the Dabi police station area of Bundi district at around 5 a.m. According to preliminary information, a dumper and a car collided head-on with significant impact.

The car, carrying eight people, was en route from Beawar to Rajsamand, reportedly arranged by contractor Hemraj.

The accident took place just 5 km before the Dhaneshwar toll plaza.

An ambulance was dispatched immediately after the highway control room alerted emergency services. Upon reaching the scene, rescue personnel found all eight car occupants injured. The victims were first rushed to the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Dabi, according to the officials here.

Tragically, one person was declared dead on arrival. The remaining injured were referred to Kota’s Medical College Hospital for further treatment.

At least five migrant labourers were killed and 32 others injured in a road accident on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in the early hours of Wednesday.

The accident took place near Bahadurgarh when a canter truck collided with a pickup vehicle carrying around 37 labourers.

The impact was so severe that five people, four men and one woman, died on the spot, while several were injured.

According to officials, the victims were migrant workers from Aman Nagar in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, travelling to Ghodakemla village in Mahendragarh, Haryana, for harvest-related work. They had come to Haryana for the seasonal crop-cutting period and were en route when tragedy struck.

Upon receiving information about the accident, Badli Police Station personnel and the KMP Expressway's Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) response team promptly reached the spot.