Haryana government on Tuesday night announced Rs 10 crore for relief work in Uttarakhand, hit by heavy rains and landslides.

With flood situation in Uttarakhand remaining grim, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday assured Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna of all assistance in rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit state.

India, which has a thriving diaspora in Kenya estimated at 100,000, became the East African nation's biggest trading partner in Asia in 2012, surpassing China, a government document says.

China on Monday announced that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer which is capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, surpassing the US Titan supercomputer.

The government of Hong Kong, headed by Leung Chung-ying, said it will conduct itself in accordance with the laws in the case of US former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is believed to be in hiding at an unknown location in the coastal enclave.

Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai and coastal Maharashtra for the second consecutive day on Monday, disrupting normal life in the region, officials said.

A University of Tokyo study has warned that the unchecked progress of global warming would increase the risk of flooding at the end of this century in 42 percent of the Earth's land surface, mainly in Asia and Africa.

Rivers in Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic have reached record high levels, and after a week of rain an estimated 21 people have died in floods in Central Europe.

An erratic Saina Nehwal failed to defend her title at the Indonesian Super Series Premier after suffering a three-game defeat to Germany's Juliane Schenk in the semifinals of the women's singles competition on Saturday.

The death toll in a building collapse in eastern China after an explosion caused by a gas leak on Tuesday rose to 11, officials said.