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The rout of floods currently sprawl across central, northern and western areas of country. In the northern state of Uttarakhand, at least 40 people are feared dead in floods brought on by the annual downpours. Thousands remain stranded following landslides which have blocked hundreds of roads. Most of Madhya Pradesh has been lashed by rapid rainfall over the last few days. Many districts are almost completely swamp with Satna and Rewa are among the worst affected. The state capital of MP Bhopal recorded 196mm of rain the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Saturday. This may be the moist time of the year, but that is almost 60 % of the entire June average rainfall of 331mm. Flash floods active by heavy rainfall have also inflict ruin in India's northeastern Assam state. Nearly 20 villages in Jorhat district have been cut off by the high waters.

India's monsoon rains were 35% above average in the week ending July 6th. That figure was as high as 57% above the norm for the northwestern part of the country. The monsoon of June-September has so far delivered 1% higher rainfall than average. That may be sound good but the irregular of distribution is made clear view of figures closely. The seasonal rain across the northwest from June 1st to July 6th is 19% above average. However, India's east and northeastern regions still have a deficit of 17 percent. Their wettest spell should set in over the next few weeks.
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Due to high temperatures fires across Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have burned more than 2,300 hectares of forests and killed six people. Officials says due to increased intensity this year forests being drier as unexpectedly high temperatures and low rainfall in the last two years. Others have said that the fires were started illegally by timber traders. The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), the Indian army, Air force and 6,000 fire-fighters are involved in the efforts to save the forests. The fires had spread to 13 districts in the state of Uttarakhand such as Rudraprayag, Pauri, Tehri, Pithogarh, Nainital and Almora. There were also reports of blazes surrounding two major tiger reserves, Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park. Indian air force helicopters have been spraying water from the region's lakes such as Bhimtal, but were hindered by poor visibility caused by dense smoke. The Indian government is now using a satellite-based fire alarm system that will send alerts to authorities every time a new fire is detected.
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Nun Amala, 69, was found murdered in her convent at Pala in Kottayam on last Thursday morning.

A youth, who is prima facie identified as the alleged accused in the murder of a Catholic nun in Kerala, was taken into custody in Uttarakhand.

Police sources in Kerala said the alleged accused Sathish Babu alias Sathish Nair, 38, was nabbed by Uttarakhand police from a guest house for pilgrims at Haridwar on Wednesday night. A team of Kerala police have left for Haridwar to complete the formalities before bringing him back to the state.

Nun Amala, 69, was found murdered in her convent at Pala in Kottayam on last Thursday morning. Another inmate of the convent had told the police that she had seen a stranger at the convent premises on the previous night. Besides, another nun in the same convent had sustained grave injuries a few days before the murder of Amala. However, the convent authorities did not complain that matter to police.

The other day police had released the photographs of the suspected person, identified as Sathish Babu, a native of Kasargode.

Police claimed that Babu had been involved in several criminal cases in the past and had a habit of targeting elderly persons and convents. There were a few minor incidents of attacks on other convents in Kottayam in the recent months, which police have attributed to Babu.
Source:The Indian Express

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