{"id":34706,"date":"2026-08-26T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/heavy-rain-alert-chhattisgarh-rivers-spate-varanasi-flooding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:33","slug":"heavy-rain-alert-chhattisgarh-rivers-spate-varanasi-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/heavy-rain-alert-chhattisgarh-rivers-spate-varanasi-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Alert: Chhattisgarh Rivers Spate & Varanasi Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The monsoon remains active in Madhya Pradesh. The Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for heavy rain in Tikamgarh, Damoh, Narsinghpur, Betul and Rajgarh. Rain is expected to continue across the state for the next three days.<\/p>\n

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In Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, around 20 hours of rain caused waterlogging in several parts of the city.<\/p>\n

Roads and lanes were flooded, and water entered several homes. Five people died in separate incidents, while two others were injured.<\/p>\n

Several parts of Delhi also received heavy rain on Tuesday, leading to traffic jams in many areas.<\/p>\n

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Several parts of the city recorded around 100 mm of rain over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

In Chhattisgarh, heavy rain was reported in the Bastar, Raipur, Bilaspur and Surguja divisions over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

In Korba, rivers and streams are overflowing, while water has entered several homes.<\/p>\n

In Uttarakhand, the Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for Dehradun, Pithoragarh, Nainital and Bageshwar.<\/p>\n

The department said these districts are likely to experience bad weather for the next week.<\/p>\n

See the status of monsoon clouds on the satellite map<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Weather pictures from across the country<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The pictures are from BHU Hospital in Varanasi. After the rain, people were seen carrying patients on their shoulders through knee-deep water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A landslide occurred near Dharchula-Gunji on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra route in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, on Tuesday. People are stranded on both sides due to the road closure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Due to waterlogging on Sohna Road in Gurugram, Haryana, a young man sat on the roof of a cab and started working on his laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An entire mountain collapsed on the Kodla-Urai-Gharod road in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. This led to the road being closed to vehicular traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Raghopur-Narkatia embankment has breached in Raghopur village of Naugachia, Bhagalpur, Bihar. This has affected approximately 10,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A sinkhole about 20 feet wide has formed on the road at IFFCO Chowk in Gurugram, Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The monsoon remains active in Madhya Pradesh. The Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for heavy rain in Tikamgarh, Damoh, Narsinghpur, Betul and Rajgarh. Rain is expected to continue across the state for the next three days. In Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, around 20 hours of rain caused waterlogging in several parts of the city….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31208,22096,30015,20962,22105,20957,31207,22101],"class_list":["post-34706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-barish","tag-chhattisgarh-weather","tag-flood-alert","tag-heavy-rain-alert","tag-madhya-pradesh-monsoon","tag-monsoon-2026","tag-varanasi-floods","tag-weather-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}