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  • Weather update: Heavy rains will occur in many states including Bihar, Rajasthan today! Next few hours heavy in these districts

    New Delhi :Heavy rain will continue in many areas across the country even today. The Meteorological Department has issued an alert for heavy rains in some big states. The flood situation in many parts of the country is unhappy. At the same time, heavy rains in the capital Delhi and its surrounding areas have disrupted life. However, there has been a decrease in rainfall here for a couple of days. But temperatures have seen a drop and are cloudy. Meanwhile, releasing the forecast of August 25, the Meteorological Department has issued an alert in many places including Bihar, Rajasthan. Apart from this, the Central Water Commission has issued a forecast of floods and said that in some areas, the situation has worsened within 6 hours.

    The Water Commission said that some water areas and neighborhoods of Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Bageshwar districts of Poonch, Reasi and Ramban districts of Jammu and Kashmir – Uttarakhand subdivision are under moderate flood risk in the next 6 hours.

    The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted heavy rains in Bihar, Rajasthan, Odisha and Uttarakhand today. IMD said in its All India Weather Warning Bulletin, ‘Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in Gangetic West Bengal and Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam and Meghalaya, Madhya Maharashtra. , Konkan and Goa, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal and isolated rains may occur over Kerala and Mahe.

    The IMD has further stated that the low pressure area lies over Southwest Rajasthan and adjoining areas. It is likely to persist during the next 24 hours. The IMD advised, ‘The monsoon trough is active and is in the south of its normal state. It is likely to remain active during the next 2-3 days. Under the influence of the above systems, heavy to very heavy rainfall and widespread rainfall over the state of Gujarat may occur in Southwest Rajasthan on 25 August.

    According to IMD, ‘strong wind (speed reaching 50-60 kmph) is likely to move over West Bay of West Bengal and West Bengal and many adjoining areas of West Bengal. Apart from this, winds of 45-55 kmph can be moved along the North Arabian Sea and Gujarat coast.

  • Special train with 1,140 migrants leaves for Jharkhand


    A special train carrying 1,140 migrant workers stranded here in the lockdown has left Mangaluru railway station for Jharkhand. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, were present at the railway station on Saturday night when the train left. Kamath said the workers who had registered on the state governments Seva Sindhu portal were brought to the railway station in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses.

    A health check-up was carried out before they boarded the train. The district administration also provided food packets and water to the migrants at the station. Three more trains will leave from Mangaluru for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand soon, he said. Meanwhile, in a statement, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu P Rupesh said train services are being arranged for migrant workers who have registered their names on the Seva Sindhu portal.

    The workers will be informed when trains are arranged to their destinations and they need not throng the railway station unnecessarily, she said. Around 20,000 workers have so far registered themselves online, including 5,000 from Jharkhand, 3,000 from Uttar Pradesh and 4,000 from Bihar. Hundreds of migrant workers had on Friday staged a protest at the central railway station here, demanding that they be sent back home.