The Catch Up: Orange alert in the Capital (30 Sept)

The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

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This is a catch up on Three Things by The
inn An Express and Iron Flora's Wine. Today's the thirtieth
of September, and here are the headlines in top story today.
A sudden spell of heavy rain lashed Deli today, disrupting flights,
slowing traffic and dampening festival preparations across the city. The

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India Meteorological Department has issued an Orange alert for the
entire capital, warning of moderate rain or thunderstorms with gusty
winds reaching up to forty kilometers per hour. In its
weather bulletin, the IMD said and upper air cyclonic circulation
persists over North Ayata and neighboring areas at three point
one kilometers above means sea level. Such systems pull in

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moistured laden winds, increasing cloud cover and the likelihood of rain.
Southeast e wins at fifteen kilometers per hour were prevailing
over Delhi when the bulletin was issued. In other national
news of the day, Prime Minister and Orange Remote Today
hailed US President Donald Trump's peace plan to end the

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conflict in Gaza. The twenty point piece plan proposes immediate
ceasefire in the world torn region. In a post on
social media platform x PM mod stated and I quote,
we welcome President Donald J. Trump's announcement of a comprehensive
plan to end the Gaza conflict. It provides a viable
pathway to long term and sustainable peace, security and development

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for the Palestinian and Israeli people, as also for the
larger West Asian region. We hope that all concerned will
come together behind President Trump's initiative and support this effort
to end conflict and secure peace und quote more. These
praise for Trump came after US administration imposed hefty tariffs
on Indian imports once again. Trump even unfairly imposed a

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penalty tartifi on India for buying Russian oil. Speaking of Trump,
the United States is hurtling towards a government shut down tonight,
and there appears to be little appetite on either side
of the partisan divide to avoid it. A last ditch
meeting between porters and Democratic leaders in Congress made little progress.

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If anything, both sides have been digging deeper into their positions.
Vice President J. D. Vanstold reporters after the meeting at
the White House. I think we are headed for a
shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing. You
don't put a gun to the American people's head and
say unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats
who want you to do, we are going to shut

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down your government. Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said there
were still very large differences between his party and the
White House. Moving on. In a sweeping move, the Taliban
government in Afghanistan imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications just
days after they began disconnecting fiber optic internet connections in

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several provinces to prevent vice net blocks, which is a
Watchtock organization monitoring cybersecurity and Internet governance, announced a nationwide
telecoms blackout is now in effect, appearing to be consistent
with the intentional disconnection of service. The Watchtock added, we
are now observing national connectivity at fourteen percent of ordinary levels.

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According to a BBC report, international news agencies have lost
contact with offices in the capital city of Kabul. Mobile
internet and satellite TV have too been severely disrupted across Afghanistan.
In some news from Asia, at least one student has
been killed and dozens injured and sixty five presumed buried

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under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia yesterday,
with rescuers running oxygen and water to those who remain
trapped for more than twelve hours. Rescue workers and soldiers
digging through the night pulled out eight week and injured survivors.
Hours after the building at al Kozeni Islamic boarding school
in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed while students

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were praying, rescuers saw additional bodies, indicating the death toll
was likely to rise. Families of the students gathered at
hospitals or near the collapsed building, anxiously awaiting news of
their children. Relatives wailed as they watched rescuers pull a
dusty and injured student from the buried prayer hall. That's

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all for today. This was a catch up on three
things by Thernian Express.