Weather News Highlights: Rain Lashes Over Madhya Pradesh; Light Showers Expected In Delhi-NCR

Three students were killed after unexpected flooding occurred in the basement of an IAS coaching centre in Delhi. The flooding, which was caused by heavy rain, flooded by basement by up to seven feet. Three students were trapped and are feared drowned whereas 30 managed to space the floods on Saturday night.

The Indian Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for three districts in Kerala for Sunday. As per this IMD forecast, Kozhikode, Kannur, and Kasaragod are expected to witness heavy rains in the day.

Amid the heavy rains, the KRS Dam in Karnataka's Mysore has overflowed, releasing about 1.30 lakh cusecs of water as of last night. Due to this, the flood situation in the Krishna Raja Sagara region and other districts in Mysuru.

As per the IMD Forecast for Sunday, isolated and extremely heavy rainfall is expected to hit the Gujarat region on Sunday.

Furthermore, an orange alert is underway for West and East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Konkan and Goa and Central Maharashtra in the next coming days.

In North India, isolated and heavy very rainfall is expected to lash over Uttarakhand and East Rajasthan.

Following the death of three UPSC aspirants in Delhi's Old Rajendra Nagar on Saturday, several students and activists have protested against the lack of action by Delhi's Municipal Cooperation.

Due to heavy rains in the capital on Saturday, water gushed into the basement of an IAS coaching centre. As per rescue officials, the water was as high as seven feet and the flooding resulted in the death of three students. Rescue operations are underway for any other missing students in the water.

The Paris Olympics continues to be accompanied by rain. These heavy rains have further led to delays and postponement of several Olympic games such as skateboarding and tennis.

The first event of the skateboarding competition, men's street skateboarding, was postponed from Saturday until Monday because of the showers. The women's event is scheduled for Sunday.

The start of play in the scheduled tennis matches on the 10 smaller courts at Roland Garros was delayed because of rain, but action was able to get going in the two main stadiums, which both have retractable roofs.

(With AP inputs)

People of 18 villages in Odisha’s Malkangiri district were cut off from the rest of the state after a major landslide due heavy rains in the area.

The landslide occurred near Tumba Padar village at Bayapadar ghat road at Nakamamudi gram panchayat under Korukonda block of Malkangiri district on Saturday afternoon.

Following the rains on Saturday, the weather department has predicted more rains in the region, increasing the risk of more landslides.

With light rainfall in the city, the Air Quality Index of the capital saw slight improvement. The levels of the AQI reduced to moderate after light showers across Delhi

As per the local weather report from New Delhi's Safdarjung station, the national capital is expected to receive light rain as the day goes on.

For the rest of the week till August 3, a generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rain showers has been forecasted.

The wildfire in the town of Jasper, Alberta "could burn for months". As per Canadian officials, despite the efforts to douse the fire and the rains, the wildfire in Jasper could last well into the fall season.

The fires, which broke out on Thursday, triggered the evacuated of over 20,000 people from the town. Hundreds of structures in the Canadian town have been destroyed due to the wildfires.

"We're going to be working on this wildfire, we expect, over the next three months at least,” stated Landon Shepherd, a deputy incident commander, at a news conference in the nearby community of Hinton.

Mumbai City and its suburbs are expected to receive heavy rainfall on July 28. As per the Regional Meterological Centre a yellow alert has been issued over Mumbai, Thane, Palghar.

Meanwhile, an orange alert has been issued for Satara and Raigad districts for Sunday.

The deaths of three UPSC aspirants after a floods in the basement of an IAS coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajendra Nagar has sparked outrage. Students and activists have started protests against the lack of action taken by the government and MCD.

As per the latest update shared by IMD, East Madhya Pradesh recorded heavy to very heavy Rainfall during the past 24 hours. The Khurai station reported the maximum amount of rainfall of 18 cm

IMD has issued an orange alert for Uttarakhand till July 31. As per the alert issued, the northwest state is expected to witnessed heavy rainfall in isolated pockets till Wednesday.

As monsoon continues all across India, rain showers were reports from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. For the rest of the week, Madhya Pradesh, especially the east and western parts of the state are under orange alert for heavy rainfall.

A flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in Manali on Thursday led to the closure of a stretch on National Highway 3 in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

Followinf the flash floods, PTI has reported that two houses were destroyed in the region.

The body of a South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) official who was swept away after rain water flooded a portion of a mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district was found on Sunday post a 16-hour search, police said.

SECL assistant manager (mining) Jitendra Nagarkar (41) had gone missing at around 4:30 pm on Saturday at the Kusmunda coal mine, an official said.

Nagarkar and five others, who were present at the mine's Godawari face, got stuck in the route of water flow into the sump, a huge excavated portion of the mine to collect water that is then pumped onto the surface, the official said.

(via PTI)