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Monsoon Deluge Triggers Mass Rescues Across India as Cross-Border Floods Swamp Punjab

Rescue capacity is stretched as landslides, urban failures and misinformation complicate response.

कहीं मूषक पर सवार तो कहीं छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज का अवतार... देखें मुंबई में गणेशोत्सव पर भव्य पंडालों की रौनक
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Overview

  • NDRF and armed forces continue evacuations and searches across more than ten states after record 24‑hour rain in Jammu reached 380 mm and a Vaishno Devi landslide killed 34 people.
  • Border districts face rising waters with the AttariWagah area inundated, while AP reports over 210,000 people displaced in Pakistan’s Punjab and authorities there have called in the army.
  • In Mumbai’s Virar, the apartment collapse death toll has reached at least 15 as round‑the‑clock rescues continue and police file an FIR against the builder and the landowner.
  • Uttarakhand police say a fire at Nainital’s Old London House left one dead and an investigation is examining a possible short circuit as the cause.
  • Officials flagged a widely shared train‑submergence clip as AI‑generated, security forces reported two infiltrators killed near the LoC in Gurez, and IndiGo fell about 4–5% after a promoter block sale cut the Gangwal family’s stake by roughly 3.1%.