<div>With the monsoon sweeping the western, northern and north-eastern regions, heavy rain drove Uttar Pradesh to the brink of floods while copiously drenching the hill stations of Maharashtra. <br /><br />Lashing rain left 15 dead and nearly 40 injured in UP in the last two days, affecting normal life and pushing major rivers above the danger mark. <br /><br />Three people, including two women, were electrocuted when a live wire snapped and fell on their house in Aligarh. Four reportedly died in house collapse incidents in different parts of the state. <br /><br />Thousands were displaced in Lakhimpur-Kheri, Baharaich, Sitapur and Deoria as flood water entered their homes. Large farmlands were inundated and roads damaged. The tracks were submerged in several places, thus disrupting the free movement of vehicles. Submerging of tracks in several places also hit long-distance trains.<br /><br />Surplus rain was recorded in Maharashtra’s most famous hill station of Mahabaleshwar, the towns of Harnai, Dahanu, Alibaug and Ratnagiri in the Konkan coast reported an excess of 1000 mm of rain in July. Mumbai’s Regional Meteorological Observatory of IMD said Mahabaleshwar recorded 2602 mm of rain in July, way above the 435 mm it received last year. Record rain were also reported in Ratnagiri in Harnai, which received 3,176 mm of rain this month, while Bhaira in Raigad district received 2,266 mm and Alibaug registered 2,249 mm. <br /><br />"The coastal Konkan belt and hill stations like Matheran and Lonavla-Khandala received good rainfall," an IMD official said. Monsoon showed signs of letting up in most parts of Uttarakhand, including Dehradun, as the state reported two more rain-related deaths on Monday. <br /><br />A person was killed in Uttarkashi when his car fell into a swollen Bhagirathi river after it was hit by a boulder rolling down the hillside due to a landslip. Flood waters also swept away a child in Badhedi Rajputana village of Haridwar district. The MeT department said rain would recede from Monday, saying: “No heavy rain warnings for Uttarakhand for the next three to four days.”<br /><br />With rain damaging highways to Badrinath and Kedarnath, the Chardham Yatra has been badly hit. <br /><br />In Arunachal Pradesh, three died in a landslide in Seppa. Chief Minister Pema Khandu condoled the death of the couple and their son and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh. Floods claimed one life in neighbouring Assam’s Sivsagar district on Monday. Flash floods hit 1.67 lakh people in the state and marooned seven districts. <br /><br />The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level in Jorhat and Dhubri, while its tributaries -the Dikhow, Dhansiri, Jai Bharali, Puthimari and Sankosh are also in spate. Floods have inundated 238 villages and submerged 15,000 hectares of farm area. <br /><br />Twenty-five relief camps in the state houses 6,000 displaced people, as SDRF and NDRF have been dispatched to vulnerable areas, official sources said. <br /></div>
<div>With the monsoon sweeping the western, northern and north-eastern regions, heavy rain drove Uttar Pradesh to the brink of floods while copiously drenching the hill stations of Maharashtra. <br /><br />Lashing rain left 15 dead and nearly 40 injured in UP in the last two days, affecting normal life and pushing major rivers above the danger mark. <br /><br />Three people, including two women, were electrocuted when a live wire snapped and fell on their house in Aligarh. Four reportedly died in house collapse incidents in different parts of the state. <br /><br />Thousands were displaced in Lakhimpur-Kheri, Baharaich, Sitapur and Deoria as flood water entered their homes. Large farmlands were inundated and roads damaged. The tracks were submerged in several places, thus disrupting the free movement of vehicles. Submerging of tracks in several places also hit long-distance trains.<br /><br />Surplus rain was recorded in Maharashtra’s most famous hill station of Mahabaleshwar, the towns of Harnai, Dahanu, Alibaug and Ratnagiri in the Konkan coast reported an excess of 1000 mm of rain in July. Mumbai’s Regional Meteorological Observatory of IMD said Mahabaleshwar recorded 2602 mm of rain in July, way above the 435 mm it received last year. Record rain were also reported in Ratnagiri in Harnai, which received 3,176 mm of rain this month, while Bhaira in Raigad district received 2,266 mm and Alibaug registered 2,249 mm. <br /><br />"The coastal Konkan belt and hill stations like Matheran and Lonavla-Khandala received good rainfall," an IMD official said. Monsoon showed signs of letting up in most parts of Uttarakhand, including Dehradun, as the state reported two more rain-related deaths on Monday. <br /><br />A person was killed in Uttarkashi when his car fell into a swollen Bhagirathi river after it was hit by a boulder rolling down the hillside due to a landslip. Flood waters also swept away a child in Badhedi Rajputana village of Haridwar district. The MeT department said rain would recede from Monday, saying: “No heavy rain warnings for Uttarakhand for the next three to four days.”<br /><br />With rain damaging highways to Badrinath and Kedarnath, the Chardham Yatra has been badly hit. <br /><br />In Arunachal Pradesh, three died in a landslide in Seppa. Chief Minister Pema Khandu condoled the death of the couple and their son and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh. Floods claimed one life in neighbouring Assam’s Sivsagar district on Monday. Flash floods hit 1.67 lakh people in the state and marooned seven districts. <br /><br />The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level in Jorhat and Dhubri, while its tributaries -the Dikhow, Dhansiri, Jai Bharali, Puthimari and Sankosh are also in spate. Floods have inundated 238 villages and submerged 15,000 hectares of farm area. <br /><br />Twenty-five relief camps in the state houses 6,000 displaced people, as SDRF and NDRF have been dispatched to vulnerable areas, official sources said. <br /></div>
