Overview

• Fresh cloudbursts in Chamoli’s Deval (Mopata) and Rudraprayag’s Basukedar–Chhenagad zones triggered debris flows, with the Alaknanda and Mandakini running high and a Hanuman temple in Rudraprayag submerged.
• A motor bridge at Lavara in Kedargati was washed away and the Kedarnath highway was shut, with officials reporting at least six people missing and multiple homes damaged.
• Districts including Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Chamoli closed schools as the IMD posted an orange alert for heavy rain in parts of Uttarakhand today.
• NDRF, SDRF, police and army teams are conducting rescue operations, but blocked national highways and washed-out links are constraining relief access.
• Flooding has swamped the Attari–Wagah border area, and AP reports more than 210,000 people displaced in Pakistan’s Punjab, as the week also saw Jammu notch a record 380 mm of rain and about 34 deaths reported near Vaishno Devi after a landslide.