The districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji and parts of Arunachal Pradesh have been totally cut off from the rest of the country following washing away of a portion of National Highway-52 by flood waters and it will take some time to restore road communication even as the flood situation in Lakhimpur district remained grave with as many as 11 breaches in the embankments. Talking to The Assam Tribune, Lakhimpur Deputy Commissioner, Manish Thakur said that though the weather condition improved today, the situation remained grave today.

The Sindh government has declared as calamity-hit areas 153 dehs of three talukas of Dadu district and five talukas of Qambar-Shahdadkot district which were hit by heavy rains, floods and breaches in different waterways during Kharif season of 2007.

Fresh wave of floods this year is creating havoc in many parts of upper Asom, particularly in Jorhat, Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh districts. The Central Water Commission said the Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at Nimati Ghat in Jorhat. CWC sources said water levels of the Brahmaputra will cross the danger mark if rainfall continues at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh. "In eventuality of waters of the Brahmaputra rising in the next few days, the famed Majuli island would be the first to be inundated,' CWC sources said.

LALITESHWAR PRASAD SINGH In two months the monsoon will arrive. And I am reminded of my visit to East Champaran district of Bihar four

Travel advisories issued by the US government to its globe trotting citizens are usually to do with terrorist attacks or the outbreak of a deadly virus. However, this time in Mumbai it's the monsoon and BMC's handling of it that has got Uncle Sam to caution its citizens.

One dead in city after slab collapses on him; two kids die in Raigad roof-crash; two bodies found on Kashid beach Sunday's downpour may have been considerably lighter than the previous day

With the support of community participation, Environ, a city-based environmental NGO, is planning to make the recycling of plastic more productive in terms of employment generation and pollution control. Plastic waste, often occupying a considerable space in any household, and also a prime cause of flash flood in the city, can now even help

The All Assam Students' Union today queered the pitch for the speedy execution of the anti-erosion works by the Brahmaputa Board to protect the geographical area of Majuli. Office-bearers of All Jorhat District Students' Union (AJDSU) have also expressed serious displeasure over the nature of work done by the central agency, entrusted with the task of controlling floods and erosion in the river island, so far.

Incessant rains inundated low-lying areas of Mungul, even as the River Sal was flowing in full spate on Sunday. Large tracts of low-lying areas on the banks of the River Sal, especially at Mungul was flooded with rain water. However, the authorities said there was no need to evacuate the migrants inhabiting the banks of River Sal at Khareband as the rains subsided this evening. Plastic and other saste from the wholesale fish market flowed along the course of River Sal right up to Mungul, indicating that the PDA authority has failed to dispose of the waste before the onset of monsoons.

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