AMRITSAR, Aug. 18 -- With a large quantity of water being released into the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej from the respective dams after heavy rains in the catchment areas in Jammu and & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, a flood alert has been sounded in the Majha districts.

In Gurdaspur district, villages in the Dera Baba Nanak area, including Dharamkot Pattan, Gurchak, Ghanyie Ke Bet, and others along the Ravi and the concerned border outposts have been put on alert. In Dinangar, villages Kanna, Chountra, Chakri Slach, Adhi, Zainpur, and Thakur Pur are on alert, while the alert was issued to villages of Rosa, Chandu Wadala, and Kamalpur Jattan in Kalanaur.

This morning, officials reported that 1.5 lakh cusecs of water had been released into the ...