UP Rains

Heavy rain brought relief and waterlogging to Delhi-NCR, with IMD warning of more showers, thunderstorms, and an orange alert for several Uttar Pradesh districts

UP and and Bihar have an announced an ex gratia of ₹4 lakh for the kin of the deceased

A resident of the village said that the crops have been destroyed due to heavy rains and there is no food left for the animals

There was rainfall in parts of Delhi early Saturday and the city's minimum temperature was recorded at 25.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The national capital recorded 13 mm rainfall till 8.30 am and the weather department has predicted generally cloudy skies with light to moderate showers during the day. It said the maximum temperature is likely to settle around 34 degrees Celsius, while the humidity at 8.30 am was at 96 per cent. According to Central Pollution Control Board data, the Air Quality Index (AQI) stood in the 'moderate' category with a reading of 151 at 8 am. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'.

Search operations were resumed on Tuesday in the rain-ravaged areas of Uttarakhand to find the nine people who went missing after a series of landslides hit different parts of the state on Monday. Efforts were also resumed to reopen national highways, state highways and a large number of rural roads which remain blocked due to the accumulation of debris of the landslides on them, the state disaster control room here said. The Chardham yatra remains suspended for the second day on Tuesday due to a red alert issued by the MeT department. So far four bodies have been recovered from different parts of the state while nine people are still missing, including one in Rudraprayag, four at Mohanchatti in Pauri where the rubble of a landslide fell on a resort burying six people, three in Rishikesh where a woman with her two teenage children was swept away in her car and one in Uttarkashi. In the Mohanchatti incident, a girl was rescued alive and a body recovered late on Monday. Search for th

Delhi recorded 153 mm of rain in 24 hours ending 8:30 on Sunday, the highest in a single day in July since 1982, the India Meteorological Department said. An interaction between a western disturbance and monsoonal winds is leading to an intense rainfall spell over northwest India, including Delhi which experienced the season's first "very heavy" rainfall. The Safdarjung Observatory, the city's primary weather station, recorded 153 mm of rainfall in 24 hours ending 8:30 am on Sunday, the highest since the 24-hour rainfall of 169.9 mm on July 25, 1982, a senior IMD official said. The city logged 133.4 mm of rain on July 10, 2003, and an all-time high of 266.2 mm on July 21, 1958. The Met Office has issued a yellow alert, warning of moderate rain which could cause more problems to the residents of Delhi. The weather stations at Ridge, Lodhi Road and Delhi University recorded 134.5 mm, 123.4 mm, and 118 mm of precipitation, respectively. According to the Met Office, rainfall below 15

The IMD has issued a forecast of high-intensity rain for 2-3 days in Delhi

The newly-constructed Purvanchal Expressway caved in near Haliyapur in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district following incessant rains.

Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Rajasthan during the next five days will very likely receive receive scattered to fairly rainfall with isolated thunderstorm and lightning

Heavy rain battered Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, claiming 37 lives so far

Light to moderate rains and thundershowers were recorded this morning at most places in eastern Uttar Pradesh