The restoration has started on the Kalka-Shimla heritage railway line in Summer Hill which was damaged on August 14th due to floods, landslides and heavy rainfall.
Following incessant rainfall that led to floods and landslides, dengue has spread massively in Haridwar, where the number of dengue patients currently stands at 103.
The environmentalists, local residents, former mayors and deputy mayors of Shimla City accused the authorities of removing trees illegally in the name of removing dangerous trees.
Chief Secretary Prabodh Saxena held substantive discussions on various bilateral issues with his Haryana and Punjab counterparts, Sanjeev Kaushal and Anurag Verma respectively, in Chandigarh on Thursday.
The flood situation in Assam’s Morigaon district remains critical, as nearly 45,000 people in the district have been affected by the current wave of flooding.
The flood victims got angered as the local police and municipal staffers took back the tents from the flood relief camp in Attari after caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s visit to the city on Wednesday.
The flood situation in Assam's Morigaon district has deteriorated after the flood waters inundated new areas affecting over 15,000 people in the district.
Water gushed into homes in Assam's Morigaon district after flooding from an overflowing Brahmaputra river submerged several villages amid incessant rainfall in several parts of the state.
According to the information received from the Health Department, Dehradun has the maximum number of four-hundred and eighteen (418) dengue patients while the toll in the entire state stands at six hundred (600).
According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), nearly 47,400 people have been affected in Lakhimpur district, 41,000 in Dhemaji district, 28,000 in Golaghat district, 21,500 in Sivasagar district, and 17,800 in Sonitpur district.
Divulging the details of the initiative taken during the flood in the state, Punjab Water Resources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Monday said that the department has remained on its toes during the recent floods. All officials have been doing their duties day & night to provide al