Monsoon Weather News LIVE Updates: Odisha overcomes rain deficit

The maximum temperatures registered a drop at several places in Haryana and Punjab on Thursday after rains lashed the two states and their common capital Chandigarh. The showers brought much needed relief from the sultry weather. Chandigarh received heavy rain in the evening, according to the meteorological department. Ambala, Hisar, Karnal, Narnaul, Rohtak and Yamunanagar in Haryana and Amritsar, Patiala, Pathankot, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur and Kapurthala in Punjab received showers during the day, it said. (PTI)

Torrential downpour in several parts of Odisha due to a low pressure area over its coast has helped the state overcome the deficit in rainfall during this monsoon, the India Meteorological Department said. The seasonal cumulative rainfall between June 1 to July 14 was 341 mm against the average value of 345.5 mm, the Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar, said. (PTI)

Incessant rains and unprecedented winds have wreaked havoc in northern Kerala in the last few days with rivers overflowing in parts of Kasaragod, Kozhikode and Wayanad districts necessitating shifting of people to shelters. As many as 427 people, including two pregnant women, seven children and one differently-abled person, have been shifted to eight rehabilitation camps opened in Wayanad district, official sources said. (PTI)

More than 19,000 people have been shifted to relief camps across Telangana as rains continued to pound several parts of the state leading to inundation of low-lying areas. Chief secretary Somesh Kumar held a meeting with officials here on Thursday to review the situation arising out of incessant rains in the state and said things were under control and no major damage was reported. (PTI)

Heavy rains lashed several parts of Gujarat in the last 24 hours and many areas in Navsari went under knee-deep water as some rivers in the district were in spate, officials said on Thursday. Authorities rescued 45 people stranded in Tapi and Vadodara districts in the early hours of Thursday, a state government release said. (PTI)

A man and his son were killed in a landslide in a remote village in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Mohammad Shafi (65) and his son Abdul Rashid (30) were on the way to home when they came under a landslide, triggered by rains, at Thillu-Kalad village in Arnas area Wednesday evening, they said. Villagers retrieved the bodies of both the deceased from under the debris, the officials said, adding they were later buried after the completion of legal formalities. (PTI)