Rains have not spared North East either.
In this picture, residents look at a road -- or what used to be a road -- in Kahilipara in Guwahati. Flash floods and mudslides unleashed by heavy monsoon rains claimed 25 lives and displaced 200,000 people in North East.
A Central Water Commission bulletin said that the main Brahmaputra river and its tributaries were flowing above the danger level in at least six places, with the trend likely to increase.
Photographs: Biju Bora/AFP/Getty Images
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