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  • Contemporary spell of rain in Punjab, Haryana; Bhakra dam below watch after surge

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Government are protecting an eye fixed at the emerging water stage within the Bhakra dam as rain lashed many puts in Punjab and Haryana on Saturday, leaving a number of low-lying spaces inundated in each states.

    The pilgrimage to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, hooked up in the course of the Kartarpur hall, used to be additional suspended for the following two days as a result of the rain.

    The verdict used to be taken following an overview made through Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Aggarwal and the BSF officers.

    Following rain in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the water stage within the Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar rose from 87,177 cusecs at 8 am to two,51,987 cusecs at 2 pm, mentioned officers. It, then again, dropped to at least one,85,738 cusecs at 6 pm, they mentioned.

    The water stage in Bhakra dam, the utmost garage capability of which is 1,680 ft, reached 1,652 ft. Constructed at the Sutlej river, the dam has noticed its water upward thrust through 12 ft since July 16.

    The government in Nangal in Punjab’s Rupnagar district have requested other people to stay vigilant within the wake of emerging water within the dam. With the surge, it’ll be necessary to look when the Bhakra Beas Control Board (BBMB) makes a decision to free up water from its spillways (floodgates).

    The contemporary spell of rain has once more despatched other people scampering to shore up assets and give protection to their belongings within the two states. The Saturday rain threw customary existence out of substances in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur the place many spaces have been inundated.

    An respectable mentioned about 72 farm animals heads, two cows and 70 buffaloes, have been rescued from a flooding rivulet within the Talwara house. The seasonal creek used to be flooded because of heavy rain within the hills in Himachal Pradesh and sub-mountainous spaces. The respectable appealed to other people in low-lying spaces to transport to more secure puts below the apprehension of inundation from the swollen rivulet.

    Ramdaspur and Gondpur within the Garhdiwala house have been additionally reported flooded. The heritage side road close to the Golden Temple in Amritsar too used to be waterlogged.

    In Haryana’s Ambala, the Tangri river used to be in spate and water entered a number of homes in some spaces of Ambala Cantonment. In keeping with a file from the irrigation division, round 15,000 cusecs of water used to be launched within the Tangri River on Saturday morning.

    The district management declared the closure of faculties in surrounding spaces of the dam and appealed to the folk dwelling in its neighborhood to take refuge in more secure puts. The water stage within the Ghaggar river has additionally risen.

    In keeping with a file of the elements division in Chandigarh, Haryana’s Ambala Saturday gained 13 mm of rainfall whilst Narnaul gained 6 mm, Karnal 46 mm, Panchkula 19 mm, and Yamunanagar 18.5 mm.

    In Punjab, Amritsar used to be the wettest with 85 mm of rainfall, adopted through 74 mm in Ferozepur, 54.5 mm in Jalandhar, 45.5 mm in Moga, 41.5 in Faridkot, 8 mm in SBS Nagar, and four mm in Mohali.

    The Union Territory of Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, gained 5 mm of rainfall, the MeT division mentioned.

    CHANDIGARH: Government are protecting an eye fixed at the emerging water stage within the Bhakra dam as rain lashed many puts in Punjab and Haryana on Saturday, leaving a number of low-lying spaces inundated in each states.

    The pilgrimage to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, hooked up in the course of the Kartarpur hall, used to be additional suspended for the following two days as a result of the rain.

    The verdict used to be taken following an overview made through Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Aggarwal and the BSF officers.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Following rain in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the water stage within the Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar rose from 87,177 cusecs at 8 am to two,51,987 cusecs at 2 pm, mentioned officers. It, then again, dropped to at least one,85,738 cusecs at 6 pm, they mentioned.

    The water stage in Bhakra dam, the utmost garage capability of which is 1,680 ft, reached 1,652 ft. Constructed at the Sutlej river, the dam has noticed its water upward thrust through 12 ft since July 16.

    The government in Nangal in Punjab’s Rupnagar district have requested other people to stay vigilant within the wake of emerging water within the dam. With the surge, it’ll be necessary to look when the Bhakra Beas Control Board (BBMB) makes a decision to free up water from its spillways (floodgates).

    The contemporary spell of rain has once more despatched other people scampering to shore up assets and give protection to their belongings within the two states. The Saturday rain threw customary existence out of substances in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur the place many spaces have been inundated.

    An respectable mentioned about 72 farm animals heads, two cows and 70 buffaloes, have been rescued from a flooding rivulet within the Talwara house. The seasonal creek used to be flooded because of heavy rain within the hills in Himachal Pradesh and sub-mountainous spaces. The respectable appealed to other people in low-lying spaces to transport to more secure puts below the apprehension of inundation from the swollen rivulet.

    Ramdaspur and Gondpur within the Garhdiwala house have been additionally reported flooded. The heritage side road close to the Golden Temple in Amritsar too used to be waterlogged.

    In Haryana’s Ambala, the Tangri river used to be in spate and water entered a number of homes in some spaces of Ambala Cantonment. In keeping with a file from the irrigation division, round 15,000 cusecs of water used to be launched within the Tangri River on Saturday morning.

    The district management declared the closure of faculties in surrounding spaces of the dam and appealed to the folk dwelling in its neighborhood to take refuge in more secure puts. The water stage within the Ghaggar river has additionally risen.

    In keeping with a file of the elements division in Chandigarh, Haryana’s Ambala Saturday gained 13 mm of rainfall whilst Narnaul gained 6 mm, Karnal 46 mm, Panchkula 19 mm, and Yamunanagar 18.5 mm.

    In Punjab, Amritsar used to be the wettest with 85 mm of rainfall, adopted through 74 mm in Ferozepur, 54.5 mm in Jalandhar, 45.5 mm in Moga, 41.5 in Faridkot, 8 mm in SBS Nagar, and four mm in Mohali.

    The Union Territory of Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, gained 5 mm of rainfall, the MeT division mentioned.

  • Uttarakhand monsoon ‘mayhem’: Purple alert issued for seven districts; reduction groups on top alert

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    DEHRADUN: Rains lashed many puts in Uttarakhand on Sunday, triggering landslides that blocked a number of roads, together with the Badrinath nationwide freeway, officers mentioned.

    Uttarakhand, which is going through a herbal water crisis because of torrential and harmful rains, has issued a ‘purple’ alert throughout seven districts for the following 3 days.

    The State Meteorological Centre has issued a purple alert for Dehradun, Tehri, Pauri, Haridwar, Champawat, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar for July 17. On the identical time, there’s an orange alert around the state on July 18. While, there’s a yellow alert of rain in all districts for July 19.

    Meteorological Division Director Dr Bikram Singh informed TNIE: “A purple alert has been declared in view of the potential of lightning with heavy rains and thunderstorms.”

    Designated officials and departmental nodal officials of the IRS device of crisis control have additionally been prompt to stay vigilant.

    State Crisis Reaction Drive (SDRF) Commandant Manikant Mishra informed this newspaper, “Further forces of SDRF’s water police were deployed at delicate waterlogged puts in order that rescue can also be completed in a little while in case of any untoward incidents.”

    In line with knowledge gained from the District Crisis Control Keep an eye on Room Haridwar, “The placement in rural spaces stays solid because of loss of extra rain on Sunday.”

    The abutment of a bridge at the Joshimath-Malari highway used to be broken because of particles and extra water flowing into the Girthi Ganga river at Niti Ghati in Chamoli district’s Joshimath.

    “The platform of the Graf bridge at the Joshimath-Malari dual carriageway has been broken because of over the top water and particles within the Gruthi Ganga river, about 8 kilometres from Malari to Sumna,” Joshimath SDM Kumkum Joshi informed this newspaper.

    There used to be no motion of commonplace other people at the mentioned motor bridge, which used to be handiest utilized by the Military and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.

    In the meantime, rescue and reduction operations endured in flood-hit spaces in Haridwar.

    Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive, State Crisis Reaction Drive, Military and police are wearing out the operations in Roorkee, Bhagwanpur, Laksar and Haridwar tehsils, the officers mentioned.

    In those tehsils, 3,756 households were affected in 71 villages. Of those households, 81 were shifted to reduction camps, they mentioned.

    5 other people have died in those spaces because of the floods. Seven homes were totally broken and 201 suffered partial harm. Seventeen roads and 9 bridges have additionally been broken because of the heavy rains in Haridwar, they added.

    The water degree within the Kali River in Pithoragarh district’s Dharchula has crossed the caution degree of 889 metres, whilst a number of different rivers, together with the Ganga, are flowing with regards to the chance mark, the officers mentioned.

    At 70 mm, Kapkot gained the utmost rainfall within the state within the final 24 hours, in keeping with the State Emergency Operation Centre.

    Mussoorie gained 61 mm of rainfall, Karnprayag 57 mm, Chamoli 54.4 mm, Nagthat 53 mm, Mohkampur 48 mm, Vikasnagar 41 mm and Uttarkashi 39 mm.

    The officers mentioned 2,000-3,000 cusecs of water had been launched from the Srinagar Hydro Electrical Mission dam within the Pauri district because the Alaknanda River used to be flowing above the caution degree, the officers mentioned.

    The State Emergency Operation Heart has prompt the district magistrates of Tehri, Pauri, Dehradun and Haridwar to take important precautions, they mentioned.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

    DEHRADUN: Rains lashed many puts in Uttarakhand on Sunday, triggering landslides that blocked a number of roads, together with the Badrinath nationwide freeway, officers mentioned.

    Uttarakhand, which is going through a herbal water crisis because of torrential and harmful rains, has issued a ‘purple’ alert throughout seven districts for the following 3 days.

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    The State Meteorological Centre has issued a purple alert for Dehradun, Tehri, Pauri, Haridwar, Champawat, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar for July 17. On the identical time, there’s an orange alert around the state on July 18. While, there’s a yellow alert of rain in all districts for July 19.

    Meteorological Division Director Dr Bikram Singh informed TNIE: “A purple alert has been declared in view of the potential of lightning with heavy rains and thunderstorms.”

    Designated officials and departmental nodal officials of the IRS device of crisis control have additionally been prompt to stay vigilant.

    State Crisis Reaction Drive (SDRF) Commandant Manikant Mishra informed this newspaper, “Further forces of SDRF’s water police were deployed at delicate waterlogged puts in order that rescue can also be completed in a little while in case of any untoward incidents.”

    In line with knowledge gained from the District Crisis Control Keep an eye on Room Haridwar, “The placement in rural spaces stays solid because of loss of extra rain on Sunday.”

    The abutment of a bridge at the Joshimath-Malari highway used to be broken because of particles and extra water flowing into the Girthi Ganga river at Niti Ghati in Chamoli district’s Joshimath.

    “The platform of the Graf bridge at the Joshimath-Malari dual carriageway has been broken because of over the top water and particles within the Gruthi Ganga river, about 8 kilometres from Malari to Sumna,” Joshimath SDM Kumkum Joshi informed this newspaper.

    There used to be no motion of commonplace other people at the mentioned motor bridge, which used to be handiest utilized by the Military and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.

    In the meantime, rescue and reduction operations endured in flood-hit spaces in Haridwar.

    Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive, State Crisis Reaction Drive, Military and police are wearing out the operations in Roorkee, Bhagwanpur, Laksar and Haridwar tehsils, the officers mentioned.

    In those tehsils, 3,756 households were affected in 71 villages. Of those households, 81 were shifted to reduction camps, they mentioned.

    5 other people have died in those spaces because of the floods. Seven homes were totally broken and 201 suffered partial harm. Seventeen roads and 9 bridges have additionally been broken because of the heavy rains in Haridwar, they added.

    The water degree within the Kali River in Pithoragarh district’s Dharchula has crossed the caution degree of 889 metres, whilst a number of different rivers, together with the Ganga, are flowing with regards to the chance mark, the officers mentioned.

    At 70 mm, Kapkot gained the utmost rainfall within the state within the final 24 hours, in keeping with the State Emergency Operation Centre.

    Mussoorie gained 61 mm of rainfall, Karnprayag 57 mm, Chamoli 54.4 mm, Nagthat 53 mm, Mohkampur 48 mm, Vikasnagar 41 mm and Uttarkashi 39 mm.

    The officers mentioned 2,000-3,000 cusecs of water had been launched from the Srinagar Hydro Electrical Mission dam within the Pauri district because the Alaknanda River used to be flowing above the caution degree, the officers mentioned.

    The State Emergency Operation Heart has prompt the district magistrates of Tehri, Pauri, Dehradun and Haridwar to take important precautions, they mentioned.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

  • Rains proceed to lash Punjab, Haryana; Military help sought in Patiala

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Rains battered portions of Punjab and Haryana for the 3rd consecutive day on Monday with government operating round-the-clock to succeed in out to folks within the worst-hit puts in hours of disaster.

    Consistent with the meteorological division, it’s been raining in lots of portions of Punjab and Haryana since morning.

    In view of the present scenario led to because of incessant rains, Haryana Leader Minister Manohar Lal Khattar cancelled all his pre-scheduled programmes for the day and summoned an emergency assembly of senior officers of more than a few departments, together with House, Crisis Control and City Native Our bodies, officers mentioned.

    Khattar can also be preserving a gathering with deputy commissioners later within the day thru video-conferencing, they mentioned.

    READ MORE: Delhi submerged as torrential rain continues on Day 2

    Government have already ordered the closure of faculties in some affected spaces in Punjab and Haryana.

    As torrential rains battered a number of portions of Punjab, Military help used to be sought by means of the Patiala district management after water overflowed from the Sutlej Yamuna Hyperlink (SYL) canal in Rajpura the city following a breach.

    The Military has been placed on alert in every other portions of Punjab, officers mentioned.

    In Rajpura, water entered a personal medical institution and the sufferers have been shifted to 2 different hospitals, they mentioned. In some puts in Punjab, there have been breaches in distributaries and minor canals.

    A boulevard canine close to a waterlogged street all over monsoon rain close to Yamuna Bazar space, in New Delhi (Picture | PTI)

    Fields have been inundated at many puts in Punjab and portions of Haryana inflicting crop harm. Tracts of land close to Sutlej and Ghaggar river have been inundated.

    ALSO READ: As rains lash India, IMD problems pink alert in Himachal Pradesh, flood alert for 2 Jammu districts

    In some puts in Punjab, water gushed into homes and in a couple of puts, folks have been evacuated to more secure puts.

    The heavy monsoon downpour persevered to result in visitors snarls on key street stretches within the two states, the officers mentioned.

    Punjab Director Basic of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav had previous mentioned in depth preparations were made to care for any more or less exigency bobbing up out of doable floods.

    A number of groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Power (NDRF) have additionally been deployed within the flood-ravaged districts, together with Mohali, Rupnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.

    Colleges have additionally been ordered to stay close on Monday in some worst-affected districts of Punjab and Haryana, together with Rupnagar, Mohali, Patiala, Ambala and Panchkula.

    ALSO READ | 13 killed as rains, flash floods lash U’khand, HP

    Within the wake of a flood-like scenario because of incessant rains in different portions of the state, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann had on Sunday directed the entire cupboard ministers, MLAs and officers to stick alert and succeed in out to folks in want.

    Flood keep watch over rooms were arrange in the entire districts of Punjab to lend a hand the folk in hours of disaster.

    Helpline numbers were publicised and officers were appointed round-the-clock in those keep watch over rooms to serve the folk, an legitimate remark mentioned.

    Owing to the heavy rains, the water stage of the Yamuna river at Hathini Kund Barrage is continuously expanding, because of which individuals of low-lying spaces adjoining to Yamuna were requested to keep away from the riverbank, the officers mentioned.

    On Monday at 8 am, 2.79 lakh cusecs of water have been discharged from the barrage, they mentioned.

    In Punjab’s Rupnagar, Siswan Nadi breached close to Kamalpur, the officers mentioned.

    Rains lashed Chandigarh, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra, amongst different puts in Haryana whilst Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Rupnagar and Patiala in Punjab additionally gained showers.

    Because of incessant rains within the catchment spaces of the Sukhna Lake right here, two of the floodgates have been opened on Sunday, the officers mentioned.

    CHANDIGARH: Rains battered portions of Punjab and Haryana for the 3rd consecutive day on Monday with government operating round-the-clock to succeed in out to folks within the worst-hit puts in hours of disaster.

    Consistent with the meteorological division, it’s been raining in lots of portions of Punjab and Haryana since morning.

    In view of the present scenario led to because of incessant rains, Haryana Leader Minister Manohar Lal Khattar cancelled all his pre-scheduled programmes for the day and summoned an emergency assembly of senior officers of more than a few departments, together with House, Crisis Control and City Native Our bodies, officers mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Khattar can also be preserving a gathering with deputy commissioners later within the day thru video-conferencing, they mentioned.

    READ MORE: Delhi submerged as torrential rain continues on Day 2

    Government have already ordered the closure of faculties in some affected spaces in Punjab and Haryana.

    As torrential rains battered a number of portions of Punjab, Military help used to be sought by means of the Patiala district management after water overflowed from the Sutlej Yamuna Hyperlink (SYL) canal in Rajpura the city following a breach.

    The Military has been placed on alert in every other portions of Punjab, officers mentioned.

    In Rajpura, water entered a personal medical institution and the sufferers have been shifted to 2 different hospitals, they mentioned. In some puts in Punjab, there have been breaches in distributaries and minor canals.

    A boulevard canine close to a waterlogged street all over monsoon rain close to Yamuna Bazar space, in New Delhi (Picture | PTI)

    Fields have been inundated at many puts in Punjab and portions of Haryana inflicting crop harm. Tracts of land close to Sutlej and Ghaggar river have been inundated.

    ALSO READ: As rains lash India, IMD problems pink alert in Himachal Pradesh, flood alert for 2 Jammu districts

    In some puts in Punjab, water gushed into homes and in a couple of puts, folks have been evacuated to more secure puts.

    The heavy monsoon downpour persevered to result in visitors snarls on key street stretches within the two states, the officers mentioned.

    Punjab Director Basic of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav had previous mentioned in depth preparations were made to care for any more or less exigency bobbing up out of doable floods.

    A number of groups of the Nationwide Crisis Reaction Power (NDRF) have additionally been deployed within the flood-ravaged districts, together with Mohali, Rupnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.

    Colleges have additionally been ordered to stay close on Monday in some worst-affected districts of Punjab and Haryana, together with Rupnagar, Mohali, Patiala, Ambala and Panchkula.

    ALSO READ | 13 killed as rains, flash floods lash U’khand, HP

    Within the wake of a flood-like scenario because of incessant rains in different portions of the state, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann had on Sunday directed the entire cupboard ministers, MLAs and officers to stick alert and succeed in out to folks in want.

    Flood keep watch over rooms were arrange in the entire districts of Punjab to lend a hand the folk in hours of disaster.

    Helpline numbers were publicised and officers were appointed round-the-clock in those keep watch over rooms to serve the folk, an legitimate remark mentioned.

    Owing to the heavy rains, the water stage of the Yamuna river at Hathini Kund Barrage is continuously expanding, because of which individuals of low-lying spaces adjoining to Yamuna were requested to keep away from the riverbank, the officers mentioned.

    On Monday at 8 am, 2.79 lakh cusecs of water have been discharged from the barrage, they mentioned.

    In Punjab’s Rupnagar, Siswan Nadi breached close to Kamalpur, the officers mentioned.

    Rains lashed Chandigarh, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra, amongst different puts in Haryana whilst Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Rupnagar and Patiala in Punjab additionally gained showers.

    Because of incessant rains within the catchment spaces of the Sukhna Lake right here, two of the floodgates have been opened on Sunday, the officers mentioned.