Rescuers looked for 20 people who remain missing at rain-hit Gaurikund on the Kedarnath route following a landslide triggered by flash floods two days ago
Alerted by reports of heavy rain, the Chief Minister had shouldered the task of monitoring the project wise inflows and outflows and putting all the agencies concerned into action.
Tourists who were stranded at the Mutyaladhara waterfalls in Mulug district were rescued by police, DRF and NDRF personnel. Aboiut 80 tourists were stranded due to torrential rains in the district.
Responding promptly to a requisition by the civil administration, troops of the Indian Army rescued 72 villagers, including 24 children from Mechpara village near Hashimara in Jalpaiguri, who were stuck due to floods, according to the press release of the Indian Army.
NDRF teams are deployed in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, and Delhi, where torrential rainfall and the release of water from barrages have resulted in unprecedented floods
India on Tuesday dispatched the first batch of humanitarian aid along with a rescue team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to Turkey where a massive 7.8-magnitude quake has killed over 4,300 people and injured thousands others.