Overview

• Bhakra’s reservoir stood at about 1,676.72 ft, roughly 3.28 ft below the 1,680 ft danger mark, with inflows near 1.07 lakh cusecs and about 56,000 cusecs being released downstream.
• Harike Headworks registered 3,01,221 cusecs at 4 pm and rose to 3.18 lakh cusecs by 10 pm, a High Flood status that escalated downstream risk as 2,84,350 cusecs was passed on.
• Ranjit Sagar (Thein) Dam reached 524 metres, prompting the opening of three gates and a release of 42,000 cusecs into the Ravi.
• State updates said inundation of agricultural land increased to 1.48 lakh hectares as villages in Tarn Taran, Ferozepur and Fazilka faced worsening flooding, with Pakistan’s Sahijra area also affected.
• Authorities issued alerts across multiple districts, reported breaches near Anandpur Sahib and Rupnagar, and confirmed a 12-year-old’s death in a rain-related roof collapse in Amritsar.