Overview

• Pilgrimage to the shrine has been suspended; the Ardhkuwari–Bhawan section is closed and movement on the lower track is restricted.
• Fourteen injured pilgrims were taken to hospitals in Katra as NDRF, Army, police and SDRF teams continued rescue operations.
• Traffic on a roughly 250-km stretch of the Jammu–Srinagar national highway was halted, with holding points at Udhampur and Qazigund due to rockfalls.
• A cloudburst in Doda’s Thathri area destroyed more than 10 houses, with reports of at least four deaths and ongoing evacuations.
• IMD maintained red and orange alerts for several states; schools in the Jammu division are shut through 27 August and scheduled board exams were postponed as rivers including the Tawi and Chenab swelled.