West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee mourns electrocution deaths after heavy rain, slams CESC, blames Centre for waterlogging, declares school holidays.
A devastating cloudburst struck Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district causing severe flooding and destruction in Thach village.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday expressed his distress over the cloudburst in Chamoli's Nanda Nagar and said that he is constantly monitoring the rescue and relief operations.
Overnight downpour in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla caused widespread damage and panic among the residents in the city.
Torrential rains and a cloudburst in Uttarakhand have caused massive destruction, sweeping away shops, inundating temples, and leaving several missing. Shocking videos show labourers washed away in Dehradun’s Tons river, while NDRF rescued a child from the flooded Swarna river.
Around 1,300 disaster-affected tourists and locals were airlifted in the last six days while more than 60 were still missing.
Road accessibility to disaster-hit Dharali and Harsil villages in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district remained a far distant hope as BRO and other agencies involved in road repair work could not plug breaches on the Gangotri National Highway, hindering supply of resources to the tragedy site on the fourth day on Friday.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has expressed profound grief over the tragic cloudburst in the Dharali region of the Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, calling it "deeply distressing and heart-wrenching”.
The arrival of rescue teams was hampered by the debris blocking Gangotri highway leading to Dharali at Netala Gameshpur near Sukhi Tal.
The army rescue columns have also established makeshift crossings connecting Dharali, Mukhva and Harshil.
