Overview

• India’s High Commission in Islamabad conveyed a flood warning about the Tawi River, prompting Pakistani authorities to issue downstream alerts.
• The India Meteorological Department issued red warnings for parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, with forecasters calling for continued heavy rain through August 27.
• River levels spiked across the Jammu division, with the Tawi crossing evacuation level at Udhampur, the Basanter above danger in Samba, and flows over 100,000 cusecs reported at the Madhopur barrage on the Ravi.
• Transport links were disrupted as landslides shut the Jammu–Srinagar highway, rail services were curtailed or diverted near Pathankot–Kandrori, and a bridge on the Jammu–Pathankot route was damaged in Kathua.
• Reservoir managers at the Baglihar and Salal hydropower projects opened spill gates to release excess water, while Pakistan’s NDMA continues to report a high nationwide monsoon death toll since June.