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A 50-metre stretch of embankment gave way near Raghopur village on Friday evening, destroying five houses and a temple while engineers rushed geo-bags and a steamer to the left bank.
State relief data shows 63 districts above normal rainfall after a sixty-hour burst, with Farrukhabad at two hundred times the usual gauge and Kanpur Nagar at one hundred sixty times, as officials open shelters and opposition leaders attack waterlogged expressways.
Assam’s water resources department upgraded flood warning gauges on Brahmaputra tributaries after a Silchar embankment breach last season, linking telemetry to district control rooms with four-hourly SMS thresholds for low-lying tea estates.
Odisha’s Chilika wildlife division added drone transects to this winter’s bird census after silt narrowed the new mouth at Satapada, forcing teams to count flamingo and wader flocks across shallower channels that boats cannot reach at low tide.
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