Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday celebrated Diwali with soldiers in the remote and strategic area Lepcha in Himachal Pradesh, close to the India-Chinda border.
The Meteorological office here has issued an ‘orange alert’ for heavy to very heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh from August 22-24 and a ‘yellow alert’ for heavy rain on August 21, even as the monsoon remained subdued in the state.
Incessant rains and landslides killed 66 people in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand as operations continued to rescue the injured and pull out bodies from debris due to house collapses in several places.
At least seven people were killed in a cloudburst at Jadon village of Kandaghat subdivision in Himachal Pradesh's Solan on Monday morning. Two houses and a cowshed had been washed away in the incident.
After record-breaking rain on Sunday, Chandigarh and its satellite districts of Panchkula and Mohali in Haryana and Punjab, respectively, faced flood threat on Monday amid an incessant downpour since morning in the region, particularly…