Sunday, August 5, 2007

Flood scene improves in Assam, Bihar, UP; rains lash Goa, Raj

New Delhi, Aug. 5 (PTI): The flood situation in Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh showed signs of improvement today with most rivers receding even as heavy rains lashed parts of Goa, Rajasthan and Orissa, water-logging low-lying areas and throwing life out of gear.

Heavy rains continued unabated in coastal Goa with authorities asking fishermen not to venture in the turbulent sea. The Indian Coast Guard, too, has mounted its surveillance off-shore to pre-empt any emergency.

Incessant downpour lashed coastal Orissa also as the well-marked low pressure area over north west Bay of Bengal concentrated into a deep depression which is likely to intensify further and move in a west-north direction and cross the north Orissa-West Bengal coast between Paradip and Digha.

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