Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Wednesday launched a flood relief donation camp for his home state Bihar, where at least 42 people have died in rain-related incidents following a torrential spell that took place between September 27 and 30.
Death toll in the Bihar's rain-related disasters on Tuesday mounted to 30 even as relief and rescue operations gathered momentum.
Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi and other Bollywood celebrities reached out to their fans through social media and asked them to help the Bihar flood victims.
Famous folk singer Sharda Sinha is one of the many people, who had been stuck in her Rajendra Nagar residence in Patna, due to the floods.
Torrential rains have caused widespread devastation in Bihar so much so that the death toll has climbed up to 28. Relief and rescue operations are continuing to reach out to those stranded in badly affected areas. People tried resuming normal business under an overcast sky but weather department has predicted fresh showers may lash the state any time. Flooding in many parts of Patna has left residents scurrying for shelter.
More than 4,000 people, including women and children, were rescued from the flood-affected areas of Bihar's capital city of Patna on Monday
Sushil Modi and his family were rescued from their Rajendra Nagar residence where they had been stuck for 3 days due to waterlogging in the area because of heavy rain in the last few days.
While netizens were less than amused, calling the images insensitive, Saurav, the photographer, has come out in support of the images saying that they were meant to highlight the distress in the city.
In Uttar Pradesh, at least 93 people have died since Thursday. According to a state government report, 14 people lost their lives on Sunday, 25 on Saturday while 54 had died in the two days before that.
The state capital continued to be among the worst affected, some of its parts submerged in water levels rising up to the chest and its residents being rescued with the help of municipal cranes normally used for moving earth.
Hrithik Roshan prays for the people of Bihar as they are miserably affected by the floods in Bihar. Super 30 actor Hrithik Roshan took to his Twitter account and prayed for the welfare of the people affected in flood. He wishes strength for them to come out of this calamity.
Train services have been temporarily suspended between Samastipur-Darbhanga due to the rising water level in the state -- especially on bridge no. 16 near Hayaghat station in Samastipur-Darbhanga (SPJ-DBG) section.
Bihar floods: Water levels have crossed the danger mark at bridge number 16 near Hayaghat section in Samastipur-Darbhanga section. This has led to cancellation of four passenger trains, in addition to the Jaynagar-Patna Intercity Express. Besides this, trains like Darbhanga-New Delhi Sampark Kranti Express, Raxaul-Hyderabad Express, Ahmedabad-Darbhanga Jansadharan Express, Jaynagar-Amritsar Express and Kolkata-Sitamarhi Express are being plied through alternative routes.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has pressed into service two helicopters to provide succour to flood-affected victims in Darbhanga, Sitamarhi and Madhubani districts of Bihar.
Bihar and Assam have been reeling under heavy showers since the onset of monsoons this year. With most of the districts submerged, normal life has been thrown out of gear in both the states. The collective death toll due to floods in Bihar and Assam has touched 198. Meanwhile, heavy rains also lashed Rajasthan, which brought respite from the scorching heat in the state.
After a brief let-up in the situation, Bihar has been receiving above normal rainfall for the past couple of days and the situation worsened, they said. The toll in Bihar rose to 123 on Wednesday with the deaths of 17 people, while the deluge in Assam claimed six more lives taking the total figure to 74.
The toll climbed to 64 in Assam and 102 in Bihar, with five more casualties being reported in each of the two states since Saturday. In Bihar, 72.78 lakh people form 12 districts of the state have been hit by the calamity while in Assam 38.37 lakh people were affected in 18 of its 33 districts.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said the Centre should declare the flood and drought situations in Bihar as national disaster and provide a financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore to the state. The former Bihar deputy chief minister along with senior RJD leaders Sivanand Tiwari and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh met jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad, at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.
In Bihar, 66.76 lakh people from 12 districts of the state have been hit by the calamity while in Assam 48.87 lakh people were affected in 27 of its 33 districts. Of the fresh 11 deaths in Assam, five were reported from Dhubri district and three each from Barpeta and Morigaon, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said, adding 48,87,443 people in 3,705 villages are reeling under the impact of the flood.
Nitish Kumar took the drastic step of severing ties with the "Mahagathbandhan" four years after he had snapped his 17-year-old association with the BJP.
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