Overview

• Rajasthan saw extreme downpours with Bundi’s Nainwa logging 502 mm in 24 hours; two women died in Bundi, hundreds were moved to relief camps, and dam and barrage gates were opened to release excess water.
• In eastern Rajasthan, transport was hit as the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway was halted near Kota, rail movement slowed by track erosion near Bundi, and highways were waterlogged in Tonk and other districts.
• Jammu recorded 190.4 mm of rain in 24 hours, the second-highest August total in a century, as a key bridge on the Jammu–Pathankot highway was damaged and traffic was diverted; 45 IIIM students were rescued from a flooded hostel in Jammu.
• The nationwide toll in the past day reached at least eight, including five deaths in Jharkhand, two in Jammu and Kashmir, and one in Tamil Nadu, with officials reporting landslides, house collapses, and flash-flood incidents.
• Himachal Pradesh reported 312 roads blocked, 97 power transformers down, and dozens of water schemes disrupted, while the IMD kept J&K on orange alert, Delhi on a yellow alert after a Saturday red alert, and warned of continued heavy rain through the coming days.