Overview

• Punjab has ordered all schools, colleges and institutes shut through September 7 after declaring the entire state disaster-affected.
• Provisional figures in Punjab cite 37 deaths, 19,474 rescues and roughly 355,000 people impacted, with crop damage reported over more than 175,000 hectares.
• The Ravi rose again after releases from Madhopur headworks while the Sutlej and Ghaggar are in spate, and Delhi moved thousands from Yamuna floodplains after the river crossed the danger level.
• Jammu and Kashmir initiated precautionary evacuations in parts of South Kashmir and Srinagar, identified more than 300 relief buildings and kept SDRF and the Army on alert as schools closed on September 4.
• Transport remains strained with a SpiceJet advisory warning of weather-hit flights at Delhi airport, the Jammu–Srinagar highway shut for an eighth day and the Jammu–Katra rail corridor disrupted.