Overview

• Authorities report at least 36 fatalities across the region, with most victims from the Vaishno Devi trek landslide and search operations still underway.
• Jammu logged a record 24-hour August downpour of about 380 mm, triggering flash floods, cloudbursts and major landslides that flattened bridges and damaged homes.
• Key links remain disrupted as the Jammu–Srinagar and Jammu–Pathankot highways shut, a section of the Tawi bridge washed away and Northern Railways canceled 58 trains with dozens more short-terminated.
• Communications were severely hit after optical-fiber damage, though mobile and internet services began returning in phases as multi-agency teams evacuated more than 10,000 people to safer areas.
• Spillover impacts escalated across Himachal, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh with the Beas sweeping away road sections, schools closed in several districts and the Jhelum crossing flood marks even as some river levels started to recede.