The coming of monsoon has left many regions in India struggling to cope. While Mumbai was waterlogged once again, heavy rains also ravaged life in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand.
Heavy showers in Mumbai and neighbouring areas crippled normal life and disrupted rail and road traffic, with essential services workers like nurses and other medical staff treating Covid-19 patients also finding it difficult to reach hospitals. Two people were killed when their house collapsed in the city’s Santacruz area.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged people to be vigilant as weathermen predicted widespread showers in the state’s central and northern parts this week.
Here is all you need to know:
1. Several areas in Mumbai and suburbs received more than 200 mm rainfall since Monday night and heavy showers were likely to continue for the next 48 hours, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
2. Local train services, which are currently being operated only for those engaged in essential services, were suspended on some routes in Mumbai and suburbs in the morning due to water-logging on rail tracks.
3. Some roads near Byculla, Dadar and Mahalaxmi were inundated and traffic police had to divert traffic from those areas. Water was seen gushing on a road in suburban Kandivali in the morning as rains pounded the city.
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4. A landslide on the Western Express Highway, a major north-south arterial road, in suburban Kandivali affected vehicular movement from the western suburbs towards south Mumbai, though there was no casualty.
5. A 35-year-old woman and her two children were swept away in a swollen nullah after their house collapsed due to heavy rainfall in suburban Santacruz on Tuesday afternoon. The NDRF has recovered the bodies of two of the three missing people.
6. Two fishermen are missing while 11 were rescued after a boat capsized got caught in heavy rains and capsized some 12 kilometres off Gorai beach in north Mumbai.
7. The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for Wednesday. The red alert was issued for the second consecutive day as rains have been lashing Mumbai and adjoining districts since Tuesday night. The alert was issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts.
8. Rescue efforts with the help of a helicopter continued in the rain-hit areas of the Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district on Tuesday, with at least 200 villagers accommodated in two relief camps at Baram and Mawani in Bangapani sub-division.
9. In Tamil Nadu, a motorcyclist died after an unused 80 feet tall mobile tower fell on him near Veerapandi in Tirupur district in heavy wind and rain.
10. Heavy rains lashed the high range Idukki, Wayanad and Palakkad districts in Kerala on Tuesday as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged people to be vigilant as weathermen predicted widespread showers in the state’s central and northern parts this week.
11. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has also issued orange alerts for the five northern districts and Idukki for this week. Other districts in Kerala have been issued the Yellow alert for the same time period. Orange alerts have been issued in the five northern districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod from August 4 to 8.
12. Sixteen districts have been affected by floods in Uttar Pradesh, and major rivers such as Sharda, Rapti and Saryu are flowing above the danger mark at some places. River Sharda has crossed the red mark at Palia Kalan, Rapti at Bird Ghat in Gorakhpur, and Saryu was flowing above the danger level at Elgin Bridge (Barabanki), Ayodhya and Turtipaar (Gorakhpur).
13. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted fairly widespread rainfall in Gujarat, with heavy to very heavy showers in isolated places of the state, between Tuesday and Friday. Several parts of Saurashtra region, especially Gir Somnath, Junagadh, Amreli and Rajkot districts, received heavy rainfall on Tuesday.
14. A low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal triggered heavy rain in several parts of Odisha on Tuesday and the downpour, coupled with gusty wind, is likely to continue in many areas till the weekend, the meteorological centre in Bhubaneswar said. Light to moderate rainfall occurred at most places in the north and south coastal Odisha and many places in the state’s south interior parts since Monday, while heavy to very heavy rain lashed some places in Puri district.
15. A boat ferrying passengers capsized in the Gandak river in Bihar’s Khagaria on Tuesday. Reports place several of the passengers missing. The incident happened at the 5-kilometre riverbank under the limits of Muffassil police station.