A total of 36 people working in the state power utility unit and general public caught in the rains in Kattukuppai have been rescued and steps have been taken to drop food packets to 40 persons in Avalanche.
Four members of a family in Karnataka's Madikeri lost their lives while they were searching for the fifth one. Efforts are still on to trace the fifth person. The family's house was hit by a landslide at Korangaala village in Kodagu district of Karnataka on Friday, police said.
Around 150 families had been evacuated to safer places in Pernem, Bicholim, Canacona and Bardez tehsils following heavy rains and release of water from Tillari dam on Goa- Maharashtra border, the state government had said on Thursday.
The current flood situation in different parts of the country and the preparedness of central ministries and agencies to deal with it was reviewed at a high-level meeting chaired by Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai.
The IMD also declared an Orange alert in various districts from August 6 to 9, including in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kasargod, Alapuzha, Idukki, Ernakulam, Kannur and Thrissur districts.
There were traffic snarls in Bakkarwala Mod, on Rohtak Road near Mundka-Rajdhani Park metro station, Nangloi Chowk to Najafgarh road and Nangloi chowk Pani Ki Tanki due to waterlogging, the police said.
Several busy roads and low-lying areas were flooded after Agra witnessed heavy rainfall on Saturday. The city had been reeling under scorching heat, for which the rains came as a relief. However, an hour-long downpour in Agra led to traffic snarls along with several other challenges for the locals.
The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded on Saturday were 32.5 degrees Celsius and 25.4 degrees Celsius respectively, both two notches below normal.
The heavy downpour since midnight caused water-logging in low-lying areas of Sion, Dadar, Mumbai Central, Kurla, Andheri and Sakinaka, slowing down vehicular movement on roads, the BMC official said. Nearly 171mm rainfall was recorded at the India Meteorological Department observatory at Colaba in south Mumbai between 8.30am on Tuesday and 5.30am on Wednesday, an IMD official said.
Floods in Bihar and Assam claimed four more lives on Tuesday taking the toll to 174, while two persons were killed due to lightning in Uttar Pradesh, even as the northern states are expected to receive widespread rains in the next few days.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued red alert in Kasargod and Idukki districts on July 21, and Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur districts on July 22. It has also predicted extremely heavy rainfall in Kannur and Kasargod districts of the southern state on July 23.
Tomato prices have skyrocketed to Rs 60-80 per kg in the retail markets of the national capital due to disruption in supply because of rains.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms have wreaked havoc in Uttar Pradesh. Fifteen people were killed, while more than 100 buildings collapsed as heavy rains lashed 14 districts of Uttar Pradesh. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, more rains and thunderstorms are likely in Lucknow on Saturday.
According to the Central Water Commission (CWC), water level in river Ganga is on the rise in Kanpur, Dalmau (Raebareli), Fafamu and Chhatnag, Mirzapur, Varanasi, Ghazipur and Ballia. Levels of river Ramganga is on the rise in Kalagarh (Bijnore), Moradabad and Bareilly.
Delhi and its adjoining areas are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours, IMD said. Rainfall in Delhi will bring respite to locals, who have been reeling under severe heat wave conditions in the past few days, with temperatures in Delhi and surrounding regions constantly above 40 degrees Celsius.
The maximum temperatures at most places in Haryana and Punjab and their capital Chandigarh had hovered in the range of 42-45 degrees Celsius for several days.
According to a Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) report, Ernakulam, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode were among the places that received good rainfall.
The temperature dipped in Delhi on Wednesday after an intense spell of rain lashed the city in the morning, bringing the mercury level down by several notches.
As per the IMD forecast, the minimum temperature is set to rise by 3-4 degrees Celsius Friday onwards due to clouds covering the sky.
Rains continue to lash Shimla, Nainital, Sagar, Delhi
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