21:16 August 29
MP: Six children die in rain-related incidents
Bhopal: Four children were crushed to death when a mud wall of a house collapsed on them while they were playing on the road at Banahra village under Umariapan police station in Katni district. The deceased included a four-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and two six-year-old girls, an official said.
20:35 August 29
Water level of Cuttack Munduli Barrage crosses danger mark
Cuttack: Water level of Mahanadi River near Cuttack Munduli Barrage crossed the danger mark today after Hirakund Dam opened its 46 sluice gates.
20:31 August 29
Gujarat receives 110 pc of average annual rainfall
Ahmedabad: Heavy rains lashed parts of Kutch district of Gujarat today.
The state received about 110 per cent of its annual average rainfall so far this season, much of it in August, said the India Meteorological Department.
20:17 August 29
792 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh affected by floods
Lucknow: As many as 792 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh have been affected by floods, with the Sharda and the Saryu rivers flowing above the danger mark at some places in the state.
The flood-affected districts in the state are Ambedkarnagar, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bahraich, Ballia, Barabanki, Basti, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Lakhimpur Khiri, Mau, Shahjahanpur and Sitapur.
Chairing a meeting of senior officials of the state government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said that relief work in flood-hit areas should be conducted in full steam.
16:36 August 29
Heavy rain lashes Gujarat's Vadodara
Gujarat: Normal life hit out of gear due to heavy downpour in Gujarat’s Vadodara district. Various parts of the district have also faced waterlogging due to incessant rainfall.
16:22 August 29
MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan undertakes aerial survey of flood-affected areas
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Hoshangabad district. He also directed administration to intensify relief and rescue operations in affected districts.
13:13 August 29
NDRF team rescues fisherman and his dog in Chhindwara
The NDRF team rescued a stranded fisherman with the help of a helicopter in Pench river in Belkheda village, near Machhagora Dam in Chhindwara.
The fisherman got stuck on a tree in the middle of the river due to heavy flooding in the river since today morning. He had a dog along with him, the helicopter could not come due to heavy rains on Friday after which the NDRF team came from Nagpur today and the young man was safely evacuated.
13:00 August 29
3 people died after a house collapsed due to heavy rain
Three people died after a mud house collapsed due to heavy rains since the last 48 hours in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. Police said that three people including a 35-year-old woman and two young children of about 5 to 6-year-old.
12:41 August 29
SDERF rescues 25 people in Balaghat
In Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat, EOC control room sent SDERF AND home guards teams to rescue 25 people who were trapped in their houses due to waterlogging in Hirapur under Bharveli police station.
An official said that after four hours of hard work, rescue teams safely evacuated all the 25 people.
12:26 August 29
Flood-like situation in 4 Chhattisgarh districts, thousands shifted
Heavy rains battered several parts of Chhattisgarh over the last two days, creating a flood-like situation in some areas of at least four districts and causing rivers, including the Mahanadi, to flow above the danger mark.
"Nearly 12,000 houses in various districts of the state were partially or completely damaged due to the incessant rainfall and thousands of people were shifted to relief camps," officials said.
12:22 August 29
Car washes away in a flash flood
A car washed away in a flash flood near Shakumbhari Devi Temple in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
12:09 August 29
Flood situation continues in Odisha
Flood situation continues in several parts of Bhadrak district in Odisha.
Additional District Magistrate, Bhadrak says, "1.5 lakh people are affected across 543 villages in the district that are facing flood situation. Over 3,000 people have been evacuated so far."
12:05 August 29
Yamuna continues to flow near warning mark; water level likely to recede
The Yamuna was flowing precariously close to the warning mark in Delhi on Saturday morning, but the water level is expected to recede, officials said.
"The water level was recorded at 204.23 meters at the Old Railway Bridge at 10 am. It was 204.41 meters at 5 pm on Friday and 203.77 metres at 10 am on Thursday," an official of the irrigation and flood control department said.
Water was being released into the Yamuna at the rate of 7.173 cusec at 8 am from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana's Yamunanagar district. The flow rate was 13,871 cusec at 4 pm on Friday, the maximum in the last 24 hours.
11:58 August 29
Narmada river overflows 10 foot above the warning mark
The Narmada was flowing 10 feet above from the warning mark in Hoshangabad on Saturday morning.
The Meteorological Department had issued a red alert for three days due to heavy rains. Road connectivity has been lost to Betul and Pipariya along with the 200 villages. The water level of the Narmada river has been increasing every hour due to which Tawa dam's 13 barricades have been opened to 30-32 foots.
11:49 August 29
Heavy Rain lashes out in Harda
Madhya Pradesh's Harda district recorded continuous rains for the last 10 hours. Due to heavy rains, there has been a situation of waterlogging in many wards of Timrani Nagar. Roads were submerged in many places including the ward number 3,10,15 and market ward along the river Timran and houses were also flooded.
After 12 o'clock at night on Friday, people had to face a lot of problems due to this situation.
11:16 August 29
Low-lying areas flooded in Bhopal
Incidents of waterlogging were reported in several parts of Bhopal, particularly from low-lying areas. Roads in some areas of the state capital were submerged following the downpour. After which once again one barricade of Bhadbhada Dam was opened at 6.30 am and three more gates were opened at 9 am.
An under a bridge in Habibganj was flooded by 4 foot after which the barricades were closed of the dam.
Authorities said that Shahpura Lake started overflowing following incessant rains. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted, 'generally cloudy sky with heavy rain' in Bhopal today.
06:47 August 29
Villagers take support of boat to commute in Ghatal
People use boats to commute in Ghatal area of Paschim Medinipur district, as the region is flooded due to a rise in the level of Shilabati river.
Several thoroughfares were waterlogged in different parts of Kolkata, including BT Road, Central Avenue, College Street, Amherst Street and EM Bypass, due to the showers that began on Wednesday evening.
06:29 August 29
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Bhubaneswar: Fear of flood looms large in the Mahanadi river system in Odisha following heavy rainfall in its upper catchment areas in Chhatisgarh and a rise in the water level of Hirakud Dam.
"Five more people lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the state on Friday, raising the death toll to nine, while 4,15,817 people in 10 districts are affected,"
Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), P K Jena, said.
Forty of the 64 sluice gates of the Hirakud Dam, built across the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, were opened by the authorities on Friday to discharge excess water.
"The flood in the Mahanadi river system is likely to affect coastal districts such as Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Nayagarh," another official said.
Many other rivers are in spate submerging low-lying areas and snapping road connectivity.
Jena said that 4,15,817 people in 1,276 villages under 54 blocks of Angul, Balangir, Balasore, Boudh, Cuttack, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Nuapada, Deogarh and Sonepur were affected.
Over 3.83 lakh people in 552 villages are marooned, while 2,757 houses have been damaged, he said adding that over 18,534 people have been evacuated from affected areas and shifted to 106 shelter centres.
"After heavy rainfall in the upper catchment areas of the Mahanadi in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, over 6.9 lakh cusec water is now entering the Hirakud reservoir while 4.11 lakh cusec is being discharged through 40 sluice gates of the dam," the SRC said.
"The water level at Hirakud Dam stands at 625.58 feet as against the full reservoir level of 630 feet," he said.
"Excess water is being discharged from the reservoir due to the huge inflow," Jena said.
"As the inflow at Hirakud Dam is likely to increase up to 8 lakh cusec shortly, the authorities are expected to raise the volume of discharge to over 6 lakh cusec from the reservoir," Jena said.
"As a result, 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec of water is likely to flow through Munduli near Cuttack on Saturday where 7.04 lakh cusec of water is now flowing and it may lead to a medium level flood in the Mahanadi delta region," he said.
"When the water flow is above 10 lakh cusec, it is categorised as medium to a major flood, Chief Engineer of water resources department," Jyotirmaya Rath said.
"It will take more than 24 hours for the water from Hirakud Dam to reach Munduli to increase the flow from 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec there," he said.
The government is fully prepared to deal with the situation, the SRC said adding that the state has in the past faced huge flow of up to 16 lakh cusec in the Mahanadi, the largest river in the coastal state.
"Collectors of all the districts in the Mahanadi delta region have been alerted to deal with the situation," he said.
Additional teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Response Force (ODRAF) and Fire Service have been mobilised in the areas likely to be affected.
Rath said that heavy rain continued to lash upper catchment of the Mahanadi where about 200 mm rainfall was recorded till Friday morning.
"With the discharge of 6 lakh cusec of water from the Hirakud Dam soon, water from rivers such as the Tel, Suktel and the Jira will be flowing into the Mahanadi," Rath said.
Of the fresh casualties, the SRC said that one death each was reported from Bargarh, Jajpur, Balasore, Nuapada and Bhadrak districts.
While two persons died in incidents of wall collapse, three others drowned in canals or rivers.
"The Brahmani, Baitarani, Subarnarekha and the Jalaka are flowing above the danger level at different places but the water level of some of these rivers are likely to recede," the SRC said.
"Arrangements have been made to evacuate people to safer places in Bhadrak, Balasore and Jajpur," Jena said.
Meanwhile, the intensity of rainfall has subsided considerably in the state since Thursday.
Formation of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal had triggered heavy downpour in Odisha since Monday.
This was the fifth low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal this month causing heavy rainfall in the state.
21:16 August 29
MP: Six children die in rain-related incidents
Bhopal: Four children were crushed to death when a mud wall of a house collapsed on them while they were playing on the road at Banahra village under Umariapan police station in Katni district. The deceased included a four-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and two six-year-old girls, an official said.
20:35 August 29
Water level of Cuttack Munduli Barrage crosses danger mark
Cuttack: Water level of Mahanadi River near Cuttack Munduli Barrage crossed the danger mark today after Hirakund Dam opened its 46 sluice gates.
20:31 August 29
Gujarat receives 110 pc of average annual rainfall
Ahmedabad: Heavy rains lashed parts of Kutch district of Gujarat today.
The state received about 110 per cent of its annual average rainfall so far this season, much of it in August, said the India Meteorological Department.
20:17 August 29
792 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh affected by floods
Lucknow: As many as 792 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh have been affected by floods, with the Sharda and the Saryu rivers flowing above the danger mark at some places in the state.
The flood-affected districts in the state are Ambedkarnagar, Ayodhya, Azamgarh, Bahraich, Ballia, Barabanki, Basti, Deoria, Farrukhabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Lakhimpur Khiri, Mau, Shahjahanpur and Sitapur.
Chairing a meeting of senior officials of the state government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said that relief work in flood-hit areas should be conducted in full steam.
16:36 August 29
Heavy rain lashes Gujarat's Vadodara
Gujarat: Normal life hit out of gear due to heavy downpour in Gujarat’s Vadodara district. Various parts of the district have also faced waterlogging due to incessant rainfall.
16:22 August 29
MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan undertakes aerial survey of flood-affected areas
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Hoshangabad district. He also directed administration to intensify relief and rescue operations in affected districts.
13:13 August 29
NDRF team rescues fisherman and his dog in Chhindwara
The NDRF team rescued a stranded fisherman with the help of a helicopter in Pench river in Belkheda village, near Machhagora Dam in Chhindwara.
The fisherman got stuck on a tree in the middle of the river due to heavy flooding in the river since today morning. He had a dog along with him, the helicopter could not come due to heavy rains on Friday after which the NDRF team came from Nagpur today and the young man was safely evacuated.
13:00 August 29
3 people died after a house collapsed due to heavy rain
Three people died after a mud house collapsed due to heavy rains since the last 48 hours in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. Police said that three people including a 35-year-old woman and two young children of about 5 to 6-year-old.
12:41 August 29
SDERF rescues 25 people in Balaghat
In Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat, EOC control room sent SDERF AND home guards teams to rescue 25 people who were trapped in their houses due to waterlogging in Hirapur under Bharveli police station.
An official said that after four hours of hard work, rescue teams safely evacuated all the 25 people.
12:26 August 29
Flood-like situation in 4 Chhattisgarh districts, thousands shifted
Heavy rains battered several parts of Chhattisgarh over the last two days, creating a flood-like situation in some areas of at least four districts and causing rivers, including the Mahanadi, to flow above the danger mark.
"Nearly 12,000 houses in various districts of the state were partially or completely damaged due to the incessant rainfall and thousands of people were shifted to relief camps," officials said.
12:22 August 29
Car washes away in a flash flood
A car washed away in a flash flood near Shakumbhari Devi Temple in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
12:09 August 29
Flood situation continues in Odisha
Flood situation continues in several parts of Bhadrak district in Odisha.
Additional District Magistrate, Bhadrak says, "1.5 lakh people are affected across 543 villages in the district that are facing flood situation. Over 3,000 people have been evacuated so far."
12:05 August 29
Yamuna continues to flow near warning mark; water level likely to recede
The Yamuna was flowing precariously close to the warning mark in Delhi on Saturday morning, but the water level is expected to recede, officials said.
"The water level was recorded at 204.23 meters at the Old Railway Bridge at 10 am. It was 204.41 meters at 5 pm on Friday and 203.77 metres at 10 am on Thursday," an official of the irrigation and flood control department said.
Water was being released into the Yamuna at the rate of 7.173 cusec at 8 am from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana's Yamunanagar district. The flow rate was 13,871 cusec at 4 pm on Friday, the maximum in the last 24 hours.
11:58 August 29
Narmada river overflows 10 foot above the warning mark
The Narmada was flowing 10 feet above from the warning mark in Hoshangabad on Saturday morning.
The Meteorological Department had issued a red alert for three days due to heavy rains. Road connectivity has been lost to Betul and Pipariya along with the 200 villages. The water level of the Narmada river has been increasing every hour due to which Tawa dam's 13 barricades have been opened to 30-32 foots.
11:49 August 29
Heavy Rain lashes out in Harda
Madhya Pradesh's Harda district recorded continuous rains for the last 10 hours. Due to heavy rains, there has been a situation of waterlogging in many wards of Timrani Nagar. Roads were submerged in many places including the ward number 3,10,15 and market ward along the river Timran and houses were also flooded.
After 12 o'clock at night on Friday, people had to face a lot of problems due to this situation.
11:16 August 29
Low-lying areas flooded in Bhopal
Incidents of waterlogging were reported in several parts of Bhopal, particularly from low-lying areas. Roads in some areas of the state capital were submerged following the downpour. After which once again one barricade of Bhadbhada Dam was opened at 6.30 am and three more gates were opened at 9 am.
An under a bridge in Habibganj was flooded by 4 foot after which the barricades were closed of the dam.
Authorities said that Shahpura Lake started overflowing following incessant rains. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted, 'generally cloudy sky with heavy rain' in Bhopal today.
06:47 August 29
Villagers take support of boat to commute in Ghatal
People use boats to commute in Ghatal area of Paschim Medinipur district, as the region is flooded due to a rise in the level of Shilabati river.
Several thoroughfares were waterlogged in different parts of Kolkata, including BT Road, Central Avenue, College Street, Amherst Street and EM Bypass, due to the showers that began on Wednesday evening.
06:29 August 29
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Bhubaneswar: Fear of flood looms large in the Mahanadi river system in Odisha following heavy rainfall in its upper catchment areas in Chhatisgarh and a rise in the water level of Hirakud Dam.
"Five more people lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the state on Friday, raising the death toll to nine, while 4,15,817 people in 10 districts are affected,"
Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), P K Jena, said.
Forty of the 64 sluice gates of the Hirakud Dam, built across the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, were opened by the authorities on Friday to discharge excess water.
"The flood in the Mahanadi river system is likely to affect coastal districts such as Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Nayagarh," another official said.
Many other rivers are in spate submerging low-lying areas and snapping road connectivity.
Jena said that 4,15,817 people in 1,276 villages under 54 blocks of Angul, Balangir, Balasore, Boudh, Cuttack, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Nuapada, Deogarh and Sonepur were affected.
Over 3.83 lakh people in 552 villages are marooned, while 2,757 houses have been damaged, he said adding that over 18,534 people have been evacuated from affected areas and shifted to 106 shelter centres.
"After heavy rainfall in the upper catchment areas of the Mahanadi in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, over 6.9 lakh cusec water is now entering the Hirakud reservoir while 4.11 lakh cusec is being discharged through 40 sluice gates of the dam," the SRC said.
"The water level at Hirakud Dam stands at 625.58 feet as against the full reservoir level of 630 feet," he said.
"Excess water is being discharged from the reservoir due to the huge inflow," Jena said.
"As the inflow at Hirakud Dam is likely to increase up to 8 lakh cusec shortly, the authorities are expected to raise the volume of discharge to over 6 lakh cusec from the reservoir," Jena said.
"As a result, 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec of water is likely to flow through Munduli near Cuttack on Saturday where 7.04 lakh cusec of water is now flowing and it may lead to a medium level flood in the Mahanadi delta region," he said.
"When the water flow is above 10 lakh cusec, it is categorised as medium to a major flood, Chief Engineer of water resources department," Jyotirmaya Rath said.
"It will take more than 24 hours for the water from Hirakud Dam to reach Munduli to increase the flow from 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec there," he said.
The government is fully prepared to deal with the situation, the SRC said adding that the state has in the past faced huge flow of up to 16 lakh cusec in the Mahanadi, the largest river in the coastal state.
"Collectors of all the districts in the Mahanadi delta region have been alerted to deal with the situation," he said.
Additional teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Response Force (ODRAF) and Fire Service have been mobilised in the areas likely to be affected.
Rath said that heavy rain continued to lash upper catchment of the Mahanadi where about 200 mm rainfall was recorded till Friday morning.
"With the discharge of 6 lakh cusec of water from the Hirakud Dam soon, water from rivers such as the Tel, Suktel and the Jira will be flowing into the Mahanadi," Rath said.
Of the fresh casualties, the SRC said that one death each was reported from Bargarh, Jajpur, Balasore, Nuapada and Bhadrak districts.
While two persons died in incidents of wall collapse, three others drowned in canals or rivers.
"The Brahmani, Baitarani, Subarnarekha and the Jalaka are flowing above the danger level at different places but the water level of some of these rivers are likely to recede," the SRC said.
"Arrangements have been made to evacuate people to safer places in Bhadrak, Balasore and Jajpur," Jena said.
Meanwhile, the intensity of rainfall has subsided considerably in the state since Thursday.
Formation of a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal had triggered heavy downpour in Odisha since Monday.
This was the fifth low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal this month causing heavy rainfall in the state.
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