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At around 7 pm, the woman and her son were pushed into an autorickshaw and driven to another house. She was told there she would have to work as a sex worker to clear her debt.

Swatantra Bharadwaj, a 21-year-old Hindutva influencer, was heard saying in a podcast that he was not arrested despite his murderous attack on CJP protester Nishu Azad’s father. “I was not even jailed. The world should know this. I was out and about through the night,” he said.

The two men were among hundreds of workers who vanished after the glacial collapse wreaked havoc in Nepal along its border with China on August 26. The disaster has so far claimed at least 1,280 lives, with more than 5,500 people still missing.

Survivors of Nepal's massive flood are not just grieving individuals; they are grieving the loss of an entire social ecosystem that once made loneliness almost impossible in these tightly-knit hill communities. For Nepalis working abroad, the flood has produced a distinct and painful form of solitude: watching the catastrophe unfold on a phone screen.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee says it was BJP workers who attacked and vandalised the party's Camac Street office. Party MP Mahua Moitra alleged Kolkata Police did not respond to calls for help.