Monsoon Rain HIGHLIGHTS: Parts of Patna city receive rainfall, IMD predicts thundershowers

Two teenage siblings drowned in a flooded river in Almora district following heavy rains, police said on Tuesday. The siblings, who hailed from Bak village, had gone to bathe in the river on Monday evening and were swept away. A State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team was rushed to the spot in Dharanaula area of Almora district immediately after the incident was reported. SDRF personnel retrieved the bodies of 17-year-old Bhavna and her 16-year-old brother Aditya from the swollen river, they said.

Light to moderate rainfall drenched many parts of Rajasthan while a few places recorded heavy rainfall in the 24 hours ended at 8.30 am on Tuesday, the Met office said. Sojat in Pali received the highest rainfall at 10 cm. Malpura in Tonk received 9 cm of rainfall, followed by Chidwa in Jhunjhunu at 8 cm, it said. Gegal (Ajmer), Kotputli (Jaipur), Makrana (Nagaur), Jodhpur and Shahbad (Baran) received 7 cm of rainfall each while Behror (Alwar), Dausa, Bhilwara, Gogund (Udaipur) and Bundi each recorded 6 cm of rain.

The Chandigarh-Manali national highway was restored for traffic on Monday night after remaining closed for almost 24 hours owing to landslides and flash floods, officials said. Hundreds of commuters, including tourists, were stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district as the highway was blocked since Sunday evening. The 70-km Mandi-Pandoh-Kullu stretch of the highway was blocked at Khotinallah near Aut, about 40 km from Mandi town, following flash floods while the Mandi-Pandoh stretch was blocked near 6 Miles after a landslide. Light to moderate rains continued to lash several parts of Himachal Pradesh and the MeT office has issued a warning of heavy rainfall, thunderstorm and lightning at isolated places on June 28 and 29 and thunderstorm and lightning on June 30 and July 1.

Light rainfall was recorded in parts of Delhi early Tuesday, and the minimum temperature dropped to 24.5 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal. An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the city received 5.6 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Tuesday. The relative humidity stood at 94 per cent at 8:30 am. The weather office has forecast a generally cloudy sky with moderate rain later in the day.

Maharashtra: Rain lashes parts of Pune city. The Met Department has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls in isolated parts of Maharashtra on June 27.

Himachal Pradesh | Tandi-Killar State Highway-26 has been blocked this morning due to flash flood in Dared Nala: District Disaster Management Authority Lahaul-Spiti

As per IMD, partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers likely to occur in Dibrugarh today.

Chandigarh Manali Highway is completely restored, the weather is clear after light rain at night 

(Reported by- PUNEET PARINJA)