{"id":130133,"date":"2025-09-03T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/130133\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:44:16","slug":"rains-wreak-havoc-in-northern-india-dw-09-03-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/130133\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains wreak havoc in northern India \u2013 DW \u2013 09\/03\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unrelenting rains have affected daily lives in several states across northern <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/india\/t-18996071\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s weather agency has\u00a0issued a &#8220;red alert&#8221; for the states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha and parts of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Educational institutions have been ordered shut in many areas. Private offices are being advised to ask their employees to work from home.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"73860101\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73860101_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"People wade through a waterlogged street after floodwaters entered low-lying settlements in the Yamuna Bazar area of New Delhi, India\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Schools closed in many northern regions of India due to the heavy rainImage: Imtiyaz Khan\/Anadolu Agency\/IMAGO<\/p>\n<p>Which areas have been affected by rains in India?<\/p>\n<p>Punjab has declared all of its 23 districts flood-hit.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s administration said on Tuesday that 30 people have died and some 350,000 people have been affected in what it deemed as one of the most widespread floods the region has seen in decades.<\/p>\n<p>In the capital, New Delhi, the Yamuna River was flowing above the danger mark. Over 10,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday night from low-lying areas around the river.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, waterlogging in Gurugram \u2014 the wealthy satellite city to the capital\u00a0\u2014\u00a0brought routine life to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, people in the city were forced to wade through knee-deep water to reach their destinations amid hours-long traffic snarls.<\/p>\n<p>The situation sparked a massive social media outburst over poor infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"73860189\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73860189_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"An aerial view of the Majnu Ka Tila area after the water level of the Yamuna river rises following heavy rainfall, in New Delhi\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>People in low-lying areas along the Yamuna River in New Delhi were forced to leave their homes.Image: ANI\/IMAGO<\/p>\n<p>Weather forecasts say that <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/kashmir\/t-18172268\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India-administered Jammu and Kashmir<\/a> could see more rainfall in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been killed in flash floods and landslides in the Himalayan region over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>The region&#8217;s chief minister, Omar Abdullah, directed the administration to intensify the ground response and carry out timely evacuations in critical zones, his office said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/landslides-and-mudslides-why-they-happen\/a-69204303\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landslides<\/a>\u00a0is also looming in the\u00a0hill state of Himachal Pradesh, where over 1,000 roads are closed.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan hit by devastating floods<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Sean Sinico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrelenting rains have affected daily lives in several states across northern India.\u00a0 The country&#8217;s weather agency has\u00a0issued a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-130133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}