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It was a normal, rainy day of August 15. India was celebrating its 71st year of Independence. School was closed, and I was sitting in front of the box, with my morning dose of caffeine (you know what I mean), watching India celebrate her independence. It was raining 'cats and dogs' since early morning. Everyone, including me, thought this rain would subside after sometime, like how it rains any other day. But little did we know that this rain would be... ONE HECK OF A RAIN! After the Prime Minister's address, I switched off the television and went back to doing my own thing, which apparently is studying. But I got a message saying that my exams have been postponed because of heavy flooding in school. "Shit... Did I hear 'heavy flooding'?" I became nervous. My fridge had gone down due to voltage fluctuations, and if it floods near my area, I am certainly DOOMED, as I neither had enough stock of food nor did I have any refrigerating options. But the p...

The Karnataka election results are out. The Bharatiya Janata Party, better known as the BJP, has won the election with 104 seats, without even reaching the half-way mark. The half way mark was 113. 2018 Karnataka legislative assembly election results Updated at 12:12 PM GMT+3 Seats  ·  Projections  ·  222/224 seats declared 113 needed for majority Party Seats BJP 104 46.4% INC 78 34.8% JD(S) 37 16.5% Other parties 3 1.3% Source: ECI via Nielsen.  Feedback In a quick turn of events, the Congress extended full support to the Janata Dal (Secular), aloso known as the JD(S) for forming the government. Both the Congress and the JD(S) have put together more MLAs than the actual number of 111. Legally, the Congress gets to form the government yet again as they have the support of 116 MLAs and two independent MLAs. The BJP may try to get the power to form t...