Overview

• Reasi police and district officials report around 30 fatalities and dozens injured near Indraprastha Bhojanalaya at Ardhkuwari, and the Vaishno Devi yatra remains suspended.
• Army columns, NDRF, SDRF, police and local teams are conducting searches and evacuations, with more than 3,500 people moved to safety in the Jammu district.
• Key highways including the Jammu–Srinagar and Kishtwar–Doda stretches are shut, Northern Railway has cancelled 22 trains and short-terminated 27, and extensive telecom outages follow fibre damage.
• IMD notes very heavy 24-hour totals in Kathua and Doda and forecasts more heavy rain through August 27 as rivers cross danger marks, prompting school closures and exam suspensions across the division.
• Spillover impacts are severe in Himachal, where Beas flooding washed away sections of the Manali–Leh and Chandigarh–Manali highways, with Punjab on high alert and parts of Uttar Pradesh reporting widespread village inundation.