Weather LIVE Updates: Pranmati River Swells in U'ttarakhand's Chamoli; 74 Dead in Himachal

The water level of the Yamuna in the national capital dropped below the danger level on Friday.

The water level of the Yamuna was recorded at 203.92 metres at 7 am.

The danger level of the river is 204.5 metres.

Heavy rains disrupted normal life in the Kaluwala area of Dehradun in the early hours of Friday. The rainwater entered the houses and caused waterlogging on the streets, officials said.

According to State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), information was received from the Disaster Control Room that incessant rainfall created major waterlogging in the streets and that rainwater has also entered people’s homes in Dehradun’s Kaluwala area, disrupting daily life.

After receiving the information, a team of SDRF reached the spot and immediately engaged in the work.

Water level in Pranmati river in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand has increased to a great extent following incessant rainfall in the state, which has been witnessed massive flooding and landslides.

Authorities have alerted the locals in the area to ensure the safety and well-being of the residents, officials said on Friday.

According to Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana, River Pranmati has swollen due to heavy downpours.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu visited the rain and flood-affected areas of Matehdi, Baldwara, Maseran and Jukain of Sarkaghat assembly segment of Mandi district today and interacted with the people who suffered losses besides assuring them of all possible support from the Government.

The Chief Minister announced immediate financial assistance of rupees one lakh each to the affected families for refurbishing their partially damaged houses. The Chief Minister also met 23 families from Gram Panchayat Gehra, who had suffered heavy losses during the recent rain wrath. The Chief Minister directed the district administration to provide the best facilities to them at the relief camps they were sheltered in.

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Himachal Pradesh: Search and rescue operation underway at the landslide-affected areas of Shimla.

Uttarakhand| SDRF carried out relief and rescue operations in Dehradun’s Kaluwala on Thursday night after rainwater entered several houses in the area.

The Indian Air Force carried out rescue operations in the flood-hit areas of Himachal Pradesh which has been battered with incessant rains.

“The flood triggered by rains on July 9 not only destroyed our hard work for the year but also destroyed our land in a way we have never seen before. The deluge brought an overwhelming amount of sand, debris and stones, damaging the crops grown on our 12 bighas. A thick layer of almost one-foot high debris now covers our once fertile land,” says Rishabh Saklani, a farmer from Sidhpur panchayat in Dharampur block of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh.

This year, parts of north India have witnessed incessant rainfall, disrupting normal life and causing devastation in its wake. Several roads were blocked and many people were stranded because of the landslides triggered due to heavy rains.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has sought about Rs 8,000 crore from the Centre to rebuild the state after the devastation due to floods.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday toured flood-affected areas in Hoshiarpur district in a boat to take stock of the situation.

Boarding the boat with NDRF officials, the Chief Minister visited Rara and Fateh Kulla villages and then visited Haler village.

He asked the officers to ensure evacuation of the people in low-lying areas to safe places. He said every life is precious for the government and no stone should be left unturned for bailing the people in this hour of crisis.

The India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rain in parts of Andhra Pradesh for the next four days from Thursday.

Rain is expected due to a north-south trough running from south interior Karnataka to Comorin area at an altitude of 0.9 km above mean sea level, said an official from the Amaravati Meteorological Centre.

Heavy rain is expected in parts of NCAP and Yanam on Friday and Saturday, including thunderstorms accompanied by lightning in parts of the same geographies. For Sunday, the department predicted thunderstorms accompanied by lightning in parts of NCAP and Yanam.

Generally cloudy sky with light rain is expected in the national capital in the next four days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin issued on Thursday.

While the maximum temperature settled at 36.7 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the minimum temperature on Thursday settled at 27.5 degrees Celsius, one notch above the normal.

Light to moderate rains were witnessed in the city on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The death toll in rain-battered Himachal Pradesh rose to 74 as another body was pulled out of the rubble of a Shiva temple here and two more people killed in Chamba district, officials said on Thursday.

Twenty-one of these deaths were in the three major landslides in Shimla alone –at the Shiva temple in Summer Hill and in Fagli and Krishnanagar. Eight persons are still feared buried in the temple debris.

With formation of a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal on Thursday, the IMD forecast very heavy rainfall at several places of Odisha till August 19, prompting the state government to put the district authorities on alert.

The cyclonic circulation over the northwest Bay of Bengal has intensified into a low pressure area and under its influence, an intense cloud band is now moving across coastal Odisha into the interior districts, the IMD said.

Forecasting rainfall till August 19, the Regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneshwar said that heavy rain lashed several parts of the state during the day.

The death toll in rain-related incidents in Himachal Pradesh has mounted to 74 and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted more shows in the next 4-5 days.

Heavy rains have triggered landslides in several districts of Himachal Pradesh, leading to the collapse of houses and roads being washed away. As nearly 650 roads were blocked and 1,135 transformers and 285 water supply schemes were disrupted.

Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu had said that his state will take a year to rebuild the infrastructure damaged by the heavy rains this monsoon and claimed that the estimated loss in the two devastating spells of heavy rains – this week and in July – is about Rs 10,000 crore. READ MORE

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said that isolated heavy rainfall is likely to continue in Himachal Pradesh in the next two days, and in Uttarakhand and northeast in the next 4-5 days.

The weather forecast agency, in the bulletin, further predicted that in Northwest India, there will be light to moderate scattered rainfall and thunderstorms, with isolated heavy rainfall expected over Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Additionally, Uttarakhand will experience this weather till Saturday.