Chandigarh, Sept. 4 -- Haryana is reeling under a severe monsoon crisis as relentless rainfall pushed the Yamuna River past its danger mark and breached the Markanda's embankment, unleashing floods across 11 districts.
The deluge has submerged more than 1,900 villages, damaged crops on nearly 500,000 acres, and destroyed dozens of homes, leaving communities in despair.
The Yamuna's surge followed the release of 235,000 cusecs from Delhi's Okhla Barrage into Faridabad, inundating low-lying areas.
In Kurukshetra, a collapsed embankment near Naisi village along the Markanda River swamped farmlands, heightening fears of further destruction. The Ghaggar, Tangri, Roon, and Beghna rivers are also in spate, worsening conditions in Ambala, Yamuna...