Floods in northeast India kill at least 41

NEW DELHI: Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 41 people in India's northeast Assam state, officials said on Thursday (Jul 23), as authorities pursued rescue and relief operations.Flood-related disasters are an annual occurrence across India during the monsoon months after the region's long summers, with many parts of the country facing water scarcity and drought."We have lost 41 precious lives till date and thousands of livestock have been washed away," Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a social media update on the toll from monsoon rains that began in June."Cloudbursts upstream, coupled with localised heavy rainfall, 436 per cent above normal, have led to flooding in villages that have not seen such devastation in recent history." Sarma said a