RAWALPINDI: The much triumphed Rawalpindi Ring Road project worth Rs32.9 billion will likely miss the deadline of December 2025 with its cost set to further escalate by 40 to 50 per cent.

Follow the rain-related updates from Mumbai, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and other parts of the country in The Hindu live blog on August 17, 2025.

KAMC Forecaster Larry Rodriguez has your Saturday evening weather update for August 16, 2025. Tonight’s Low – 73° Tomorrow’s High – 95° Saturday’s night lows will range from the upper 60s to the lower 70s across the area.

Lightning struck a palm tree in a Phoenix neighborhood Aug. 13 causing it to catch fire. What to know about the weather for the rest of the week.

Most-humid conditions are still present in eastern and southwest New Mexico, as showers are mostly to the west in Arizona. Winds are still calm after yesterday’s spotty storms. Temperatures are still starting off in the upper 40s or in the 50s for some and the high 50s to the low 70s for

Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan have killed at least 199 people in the past 24 hours, national and local officials said on Aug. 15. Of those killed, 180 were recorded in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where one resident likened the disaster to "doomsday."

Follow the rain-related updates from Mumbai, Delhi, and other parts of the country in The Hindu live blog on August 16, 2025.

Ample monsoon rainfall in India has helped replenish water in key reservoirs, improving prospects for winter-sown crops such as wheat and rapeseed that mostly rely on dams and groundwater for irrigation.

India has received 561.8mm of rain so far this monsoon, just 0.1mm short of the long-period average (LPA, otherwise known as the normal) of 561.9mm for the same period