According to officials, the SDRF team was informed late at night by the Disaster Control Room, Dehradun, that some houses in the Bhopalpani village between Thana and Soda-Sarauli were flooded due to heavy rains.
More than a million people have been relocated from their homes in China's Hebei province following a catastrophic storm earlier this week, with officials warning that it could take a month for the waters to recede in certain parts, CNN reported citing the state media.
Relentless torrential rains have severely damaged tea plantations in the Bengal foothills. Tea production fell by about 25-30 per cent in the first week in the tea belt of the state, Terai and Dooars region in the Jalpaiguri division, according to tea experts.
The school children are facing difficulties commuting from school to home during the afternoon hours during the past few days in the city as it is heavily raining during the afternoon hours.
Preliminary statistics issued by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) have revealed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plummeted by 66 per cent last month compared to July 2022, and is now at its lowest rate in six years.
Nearly a million people have been forced to evacuate in the province and in adjacent villages on the fringes of Beijing. In some areas, the flooding has disrupted power supplies as well as internet and mobile connections. Residents have posted online pleas for help finding hundreds of missin
The largest port city Chittagong witnessed extreme flooding and waterlogging in several areas due to continuous heavy rainfall since Thursday midnight, reported Dhaka Tribune.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert in Himachal Pradesh for the next 4-5 days and predicted moderate rainfall for the next 48 hours in the state on Friday.