Monsoon LIVE Updates: Flash floods in Dharamshala after heavy rain

Screengrab from a video of the flash floods in Dharamshala on Monday. (ANI)

Weather forecast update: Flash floods were reported from Himachal Pradesh’s Bhagsu Nag on Monday after Dharamshala received heavy rain, news agency ANI reported.

Twenty eight people were killed in separate incidents of lightning in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, news agency PTI reported.

Eighteen people, including seven children, were killed in lightning-related incidents in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, Kota, Jhalawar and Dholpur districts on Sunday, police said. Twenty-one people, including six children, were also injured in lightning incidents in separate villages in the state, police said. In a major tragedy in Jaipur, 11 persons, mostly youths, were killed and eight others injured when lightning struck them on a hill near the Amber Fort, officials said.

Meanwhile, ten people, including two teenagers, were also killed by lightning in Uttar Pradesh where rains occurred at isolated parts of the state.

In yet another rain-related incident, three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed at a village in Uttarakhand after their house collapsed in a landslide caused due to heavy rains.

The India Meteorological Department, meanwhile, said conditions are favourable for the advance of the Southwest Monsoon over Delhi, some parts of west Uttar Pradesh, some parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan today. The weather agency said conditions are becoming favourable for the advance of monsoon over the remaining parts of the country during the next 48 hours. No significant change in maximum temperatures is likely over most parts of the country during the next 5 days, the IMD said.

In the south, incessant rain continued in parts of Kerala as the weatherman issued an Orange alert for five northern districts of the state.

However, Southwest Monsoon, which has hit almost all parts of the country, has stayed away from parts of north India. While IMD had predicted that the monsoon would hit the region by June, rains are yet to reach Delhi, Haryana, parts of west Uttar Pradesh and west Rajasthan. The weather agency has given several dates for the monsoon to reach the national capital, most recently July 10, Saturday, but the winds carrying moisture continue to give the city a miss.

Light rain is likely in Delhi on Monday, with the weather department saying conditions are favourable for advance of the monsoon over the national capital.