Following incessant rainfall in the past few days, the flood waters of the Brahmaputra river have entered into Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) in Assam and inundated 61 out of 233 camps of the park.
In a relief and rescue operation, a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) pulled out the four submerged vehicles from the Ganga river after they were swept away in the flooding of rain drain near Kharkhari in Haridwar on Sunday.
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Assam is reeling under severe flooding as torrential rains over the past few days have caused the Brahmaputra River to swell, inundating large parts of the state.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Sunday inspected the Chandrawal Water Treatment Plant in the city where flooding due to rain damaged the motors, causing water supply disruption in many parts of Central Delhi.
On Saturday, intense downpours resulted in the Ganga River's water level rising significantly, flooding roads and leaving several vehicles partially or completely submerged.
Two boys died allegedly due to drowning near the rainwater-flooded Siraspur underpass in northwest Delhi's Samaypur Badli area on Saturday, police said.
The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena on Friday convened an emergency meeting with Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Public Works Department (PWD), Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFC), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), National Disaster Management Control (NDMC), and and directed the
Atishi said that a combined Emergency Control Room of all water-related departments like Delhi Jal Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Irrigation and Flood Control Department will be formed, which will monitor waterlogging 24 hours a day and take action.