New Delhi: The death toll from the Uttarakhand cloudburst has risen to 47. The search for the missing continues. It is reported that many more are yet to be found. Heavy rains are still being recorded in the area.

The cloudburst occurred at Ramghat in Nainital. In Nainital alone, 25 people are reported dead. The death toll is likely to rise further as the rains intensify.

People are stranded in different parts of the state. More than 100 people are trapped in Nainital. Many roads are submerged. The low-lying areas were also flooded. All the shutters of Nanak Sagar Dam are open.

The government has banned travel to various pilgrimage sites in the wake of the floods. Many pilgrims are stranded at the Badrinath temple after the landslide disrupted traffic on the national highway. The rising water level in the Nandakini River is also a cause for concern. Rani rescues 100 stranded at Lemon Tree Resort on Rani Ket Route Ten Kolkata natives rescued from Rudranath
The rescue operation is being carried out by police, SDRF, and NDRF teams. The Air Force and three helicopters are on the scene for the rescue operation. About a thousand people have been evacuated from different parts of Uttarakhand.

The Prime Minister and Home Minister assessed the situation in Uttarakhand. According to the Central Meteorological Department, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan will continue to receive rains till May 23. Widespread rainfall in the northern states is due to the formation of low pressure in the Bay of Bengal.

Srinagar: Indian Army killed two militants in clashes in Shopian, Jammu, and Kashmir. The clash took place in the Dragad area this morning. One of the dead has been identified as Adil Wani. According to the Kashmir Zone Police, he is accused of the murder of a local in Pulwama.

The search is still ongoing in the Shopian area. There have been eleven clashes with terrorists in the last few days. Fifteen terrorists have been killed by the army in two weeks. The BSF has seized a large cache of weapons near the international border in Ferozepur, Punjab. More than two dozen pistols and ammunition were seized. The BSF said that these were made in Pakistan.

New Delhi: The death toll in three days of heavy rains in Uttarakhand has risen to 16. Three Nepalese nationals living in tents in the Pauri district have been reported killed in a landslide. A red alert was declared in Uttarakhand yesterday. The state government has advised people not to come to the state until the situation calms down.

The state government has said that no one should come to the state for tourism. The government had yesterday transferred 2,000 pilgrims to safer places. The Met Office has forecast heavy rains in South Bengal and western Uttar Pradesh. The government has also asked those stranded on the roads to Nainital to return home.

Lucknow: Four more arrested in connection with the murder of a farmer in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh.  BJP workers Sumit Jaiswal, Shishipal, Nandan Singh Bisht, and Satyaprakash were arrested. Bullets and a gun were seized from the hand of the arrested Satyaprakash.

With this, the number of people arrested in the case, including Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, has increased to ten. Six others, including Ashish Mishra, were remanded in police custody on Monday. On October 3, four farmers were killed when Ashish Mishra’s SUV crashed.