Rescuers look for survivors in Louisiana

Emergency workers searched for people stranded by high waters in Louisiana’s Cajun county while Texas officials urged nearly 3 million ...

Emergency workers searched for people stranded by high waters in Louisiana’s Cajun county while Texas officials urged nearly 3 million evacuees from Hurricane Rita not to rush home on Sunday.

In Louisiana, coast guard said they have resuced 40 people in flooded areas. Rita pushed in a 15-foot storm surge that swamped Cajun in southern Louisiana.

The storm dealt only a glancing blow to Houston, the centre of the oil industry in the United States.

A natural gas installation in southern Louisiana known as Henry Hub, through which a third of the nation’s natural gas flows and where spot gas prices are determined, was damaged by Rita, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said.

In Odisha, Modi mounts ‘loot tantra-vs-bachat utsav’ attack on Congress over GST

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hailed the revised Goods and Services Tax (GST) structures, saying the era of “double bachat (saving) and double kamai (income)” has arrived under the Bharatiya Janata Party rule. Addressing the ' Namo Yuva Samabesh' in Jharsuguda, Modi accused the Congress of indulging in “loot tantra (tactics)” while in power.

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