Bengaluru: Water logged into the control room of the West Division of City Armed Reserve Forces in Ullala Upanagara, causing damage to the valuables in the division, after heavy rains lashed parts of the city on Wednesday.

The control room was completely inundated following sudden inflow of rainwater, causing damage to hundreds of firearms, documents belonging to the Police security personnel. The havoc came to light in the Morning when the control room staff arrived for duty, upon discovering things disordered the staff swiftly rushed and collected the guns and files, conducted an inspection of the room.

In the meantime, several residents of the city complained of rainwater entering into their homes. At the same time, some also expressed their displeasure with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stating that despite several complaints, the civic body is not acting against controlling artificial flooding in the city.

Similarly, in Sahakar Nagar, houses were still submerged under water, prompting locals to protest against the civic body by blocking the road.

“Every flood causes colossal damage, and BBMP officials are not responding to our situation. The situation would have been not like this if the BBMP had cleared encroachment on Rajakaluve,” said an agitated resident.

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Lucknow (PTI): Adverse weather forced an IndiGo Kolkata-Patna flight to make an emergency landing at Lucknow airport on Friday, airport sources said.

According to airport officials, weather conditions in Patna deteriorated suddenly on Friday afternoon, affecting flight operations.

IndiGo flight 6E 6917 from Kolkata, which was scheduled to land in Patna at 3.50 pm, could not land due to bad weather and kept circling in the air after failing to get clearance from air traffic control, they said.

The flight was later diverted to Lucknow and landed safely at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport at around 5.15 pm. There were 180 passengers and six crew members on board, officials said.

The aircraft was later allowed to depart for Patna after weather conditions improved.