Heavy rain in Nepal’s Gandak catchment caused renewed flood pressure along the river basin on 28–29 September 2026. DD India, citing an official Bihar Water Resources Department release, reported two damage sites on the left-bank Champaran embankment and a Bagaha gauge peak of 91.25 metres. A separate 06:00 Bihar Flood Early Warning and Monitoring System…
GANDAK EMBANKMENT DAMAGE REPORTED · BREACH COUNTS DIFFER BY SOURCE · NO VERIFIED IMPACT TOTAL
Heavy rain and flooding from 25 to 27 September 2026 caused deaths, injuries and housing damage across Uttar Pradesh. The state Relief Commissioner’s figures reported by Reuters and The Indian Express record 56 deaths, 46 injured and more than 1,000 damaged houses (1,021 in the Indian Express account). The Associated Press separately reports at least 62…
STATE REPORT: 56 DEAD · AP: AT LEAST 62 DEAD · 46 INJURED IN BOTH REPORTS
Six people died in separate wall-collapse and electrocution incidents across coastal Andhra Pradesh on 24 September as heavy rain and gale-force winds accompanied a deep depression crossing near Kalingapatnam. The reported deaths included an eight-year-old boy killed when a rain-soaked wall collapsed in Kakinada district and five people electrocuted in…
6 DEATHS · 1 INJURED · 70 RESCUED FROM VISAKHAPATNAM BUILDING
Flooding associated with the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal affected southern Odisha in late September 2026. An officials-attributed DD India report on 28 September said more than 100,000 people had been moved from low-lying areas and sheltered in over 500 relief centres across 13 districts. In Balasore district, 67,266 people had been evacuated…
GDACS classified Tropical Cyclone ONE-26 as an Orange alert with medium humanitarian impact after the system crossed India between 23 and 24 September 2026. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 83 km/h. On 28 September, GDACS revised its modelled tropical-storm-strength wind exposure from up to 10.7 million to 10.248 million people. No population…
GDACS ORANGE · MEDIUM HUMANITARIAN IMPACT · 83 KM/H
Two people were killed and one woman was seriously injured when a rain-triggered landslide buried a temporary farm shed at Kottakamboor in Vattavada, Idukki district, Kerala, on 20 September 2026. Balakrishnan and his sister Chinnu died; Balakrishnan’s wife Mariyamma was rescued and admitted to hospital. The three had been working on a garlic farm and…
Two people died in separate rain-triggered landslips in Kottayam district, Kerala, on 20 September 2026. Near Velathussery on the Erattupetta–Vagamon road at Teekoy, a roadside landslip killed Sangeetha Arul Lal, 35; the woman travelling with her was rescued with injuries and was reported stable. In a separate incident at Peringulam in Poonjar…
2 CONFIRMED DEATHS IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS · 1 INJURED SURVIVOR AT TEEKOY · 2 SURVIVORS FROM POONJAR HOUSE
A sudden flash flood in the Kottapuzha River near TK Colony in Nilambur, Malappuram district, swept away six people on 20 September 2026 after heavy rain upstream. On 22 September, rescuers recovered the body of the last missing person, 26-year-old Sajitha, near Pookkottumpadam at about 12:30 IST. The confirmed death toll therefore reached six and the…
The GDACS Orange flood alert for India now reports 136 deaths and 457,351 displaced people across the event period from 9 August to 7 October 2026. Compared with the 7 October snapshot, deaths increased by one while displacement remained unchanged. Earlier dated observations remain in the evidence history. Separate Bihar and Uttar Pradesh state-level…
Exceptionally heavy monsoon rain triggered widespread flooding in Assam from 19 July, with rainfall in parts of Upper Assam reaching far above seasonal norms. The emergency peaked around 27–28 July when more than 800 villages were inundated. Although water levels later began to recede, an IFRC update said 1,144,733 people remained affected across eight…
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More than 20 people have been killed in floods in southern India after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, cutting off towns and villages. Several houses were washed away and people became trapped in the district of Kottayam in Kerala state. Video from the area showed bus passengers being rescued after their vehicle
Odisha India’s National Emergency Response Centre (NERC) reported 179,829 people have been affected by Gulab across 1,274 villages in Odisha. As of 28 September, 512 houses were damaged, with the worst damages reported in Koraput and Malkangiri districts. No fatalities were reported however. A total of 46,075 people ev
India's National Emergency Response Centre reported heavy rain in the District of Chamoli in Uttarakhand caused flash floods and landslides damaging huts of Border Road Organisation (BRO) workers and burying 11 vehicles. One person was injured.
Many parts of Odisha experienced heavy rainfall from around 13 September, brought by a Low Pressure Area over the Bay of Bengal. In a 24 hour period to 13 September, Puri recorded 343 mm of rain, Bhubaneswar 200 mm and Paradeep 221. The following day the heavy rain moved to further inland where Angul recorded 221 mm. F
Officials in the state of Bihar in eastern India report flooding in 15 districts has affected 2.7 million people. The Ganges River is at record levels in Bhagalpur and Patna Districts. Rivers across the state are above the danger mark in 26 locations. Bihar Chief minister, Nitish Kumar, surveys the floods in Bihar, Ind
Floods in Madhya Pradesh, India, 02 August 2021. Photo: Indian Air Force Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh described the flood situation as grim. He said in a statement of 04 August that flooding has affected 1,225 villages in Shivpuri, Sheopur, Datia, Gwalior, Guna, Bhind and Morena districts. Br
Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr Uddhav Thackeray visited the landslide site of Taliye village in Mahad, Raigad district, India on 24 July 2021. Photo: Government of Maharashtra The heavy rain brought floods and landslides affected 1028 villages across the districts of Ratnagiri, Raigad, Kolhapur, Thane, Sangli, Satara, S
Widespread floods triggered by heavy rain have been affecting most parts of Assam State (northeastern India) over the past few days, resulting in casualties and damage. According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, 7,587 people have been affected in 96 villages across the Districts of Bongaigaon, Dhemaji
Disaster authorities in the state of Assam, north eastern India, reported on 30 June that overflowing rivers have affected over 7,000 people in the last 24 hours. A total of 7,587 people have been affected in Dhemaji and Dibrugarh districts. As of 30 June there were no displacements. Flooding has also caused damage in
In India, State governments of West Bengal and Odisha, also impacted by TC Amphan in 2020, are on high alert. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been deployed. State Government of West Bengal have ordered the evacuation of people from low-lying areas. The Deep Depression over Eastcentral Bay of Bengal i
Sunday, May 16, 11 pm: As the year’s first cyclone continues to intensify over the Arabian Ocean—slightly off the west coast of India—the devastation has already begun in many parts of the coastal region. At least 12 deaths have been reported so far across coastal districts of four states: Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtr
Today, April 30, upon the request of the Government of India, the Government of Japan has decided to proceed with the procedure to provide 300 oxygen concentrators and 300 ventilators to India in response to the current surge of COVID-19 infections in India. Japan stands with India, our friend and partner, in her effor
Apowerful earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted Assam and other parts of the Northeast on Wednesday morning. Seven aftershocks were recorded in the hours after the first quake shook up the region. The earthquake originated in Tezpur in Assam and tremors were felt even in North Bengal and other parts of t
Detailed event map. European Union, 2021. Map produced by EC-JRC. The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union. Dozens of people are feared dead in India after a Himalayan glacier broke apart and crashed into a hydroelectric dam, with people hurriedly being evacuated amid rising…