Around 350 students were marooned in their school on Saturday soon after water released from the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam flooded the culverts connecting the school to other areas.
More than 350 students and 50 teachers are stuck inside a school in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan since yesterday as the roads outside are blocked due to heavy discharge of water from Rana Pratap Dam.
Incessant rain, triggered by a low-pressure area, created a flood-like situation in some parts of Odisha on Saturday, claiming at least three lives, officials said.
The National Weather Service issued a hurricane warning Wednesday for the Atlantic coast from northern Georgia to southern Virginia, predicting a “potentially life-threatening storm surge” around the North Carolina-South Carolina line.
Around 1,300 people were evacuated by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams from Bail Bazar in Kurla, where water levels reached four-five feet owing to the flooded Mithi river nearby.
Pakistan's biggest city is faced with squalor that has resulted in a major reproduction of flies on a scale that has drawn coverage by the New York Times. In a special report, the prestigious US daily has said that Karachi has turned into a den of flies that are omnipresent in housing colonies, markets, homes, shops and everywhere else.
While interacting with locals at marooned St Claret Public School here on the third day of his visit to Wayanad, Gandhi said he had demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that compensation and relocation be done fast and quick. Gandhi said he had been assured that the needful would be done.
The Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday donated Rs 5 lakh towards the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for flood relief works in Goa.
Addressing reporters after a meeting with senior officials on the flood relief programme, Ashoka said there was anotion among some people that the natural calamity was an opportunity to plunder resources.
The 10-day long Ganesh festival will commence on September 2.
For the past three days, local authorities have been working on a war footing to strengthen the 50-foot embankment in Tendiwala village along the swollen Satluj river with the assistance of the Indian Army, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and locals.
With rains again lashing parts of flood-ravaged Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday directed all ministers overseeing relief operations and the deputy commissioners to step up vigil.
The Bihar government has urged the Centre to provide Rs 2,700 crore as compensation against the damages caused by the last month's floods in 13 districts of the state, officials said.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh deputed four ministers to oversee relief operations in Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Rupnagar districts and directed officials to expedite the restoration of power supply.
Through NGOs 'Sarhad' and 'Gadzunjar Mawle', the team of Kashmiri youth-led by Zahid Bhatt, Firdaus Mir and Yunus Bhatt made a daylong trip to one of the worst-hit Bubnal village in Kolhapur, said 'Sarhad' President Sanjay Nahar.
Several villages of Ferozepur are already inundated because of the recent rains and breaches in embankments of the Sutlej river. "With the opening of gates of headworks (used for regulating water flow) in Kasur area by Pakistan, 17 villages in our side (located near Indo-Pak border) have been affected," Deputy Commissioner, Ferozepur.
The controlled release of water from the Bhakra Dam, which meets irrigation requirements of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, into the Satluj river from August 16 helped in keeping the dam deflection angle under control, BBMB Chairman D.K. Sharma told IANS.
The river breached the danger mark of 205.33 metres on Monday. Due to the inundation of low-lying areas, over 15,000 people living in Yamuna floodplains have been shifted to tents set up by various government agencies.
According to a flood notification issued by Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), "medium to high flood level is expected in River Sutlej at Ganda Singh Wala (Punjab district) and all the others major rivers will remain in low to medium flood level", within the next 48 hours, The Express Tribune reported.
A note by Pakistan's Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that has been accessed by IANS shows the extent of the scare in the Pakistani establishment after India opened outlets of the Alchi Dam. Alchi which is touted to be the world's highest dam, is a village in the Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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