Monsoon Havoc Across India: Yamuna Overflows in Delhi, Landslides Ravage Himachal-Uttarakhand, Mumbai Flooded
New Delhi(The Uttam Hindu): The monsoon has unleashed its fury across India, throwing life out of gear from the north to the south as floods, landslides and relentless rains wreak havoc. In the national capital Delhi, the Yamuna river has reached danger levels, inundating several low-lying areas and prompting the administration to issue orange and red alerts, while more water being released from Haryana’s Hathinikund Barrage threatens to worsen the crisis.
In the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, torrential rains have triggered massive landslides and cloudbursts, cutting off highways and burying roads under debris, with two national highways—NH-70 in Mandi and NH-707 in Sirmaur—along with 385 other roads blocked, forcing schools to shut and rescue teams into action. Maharashtra’s financial hub Mumbai is battling waterlogging and traffic chaos after heavy downpours flooded key areas, leaving commuters stranded.
The IMD has warned of more moderate to heavy rainfall over the next 24 hours in coastal Karnataka, south Konkan, Goa, south Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Vidarbha, with isolated heavy showers expected in Haryana, eastern Rajasthan, and Kerala, keeping the flood threat alive in several parts of the country.