Heavy Downpour Sinks Bengaluru; Opposition Tears Into Govt On City Infra

Unusually heavy overnight rains pounding Bengaluru brought the country’s IT capital to its knees on Monday, with the usual monsoon-time scenes of inundation, people wading through water and evacuation by inflatables playing out on the streets of this cosmopolitan city.

- Press Trust Of India

A 35-year-old woman died after a rain-soaked wall collapsed on her, while uprooted trees added to the woes of the people and the administration. Opposition BJP mounted an offensive against the ruling Congress, alleging that the crores of rupees spent over the last two years on the city’s infrastructure have yielded no results.