On Aug. 5, a flash flood devastated much of the Himalayan village of Dharali in India’s Uttarakhand state. As of Aug. 17, six people were confirmed dead, while 60-70 people remained missing. The primary cause of the flash flood is still unconfirmed,

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 cloudburst killed over 6,000 people in Uttarakhand and surrounding states, becoming the country's worst natural disaster in ten years. In 2021, flash flooding triggered by a cloudburst killed over 200.

Entire villages were swept away as torrential rain caused deadly flash floods and landslides in India-controlled Kashmir and northern Pakistan. Dramatic video shows the devastation in the neighboring countries as the death toll is expected to rise.

The Secretary-General offered his sincere condolences to the families of the victims and expressed solidarity with all those affected by the disaster

In Bihar, three men who were thought to be dead in flood-hit Dharali reportedly returned home. The men from a remote village worked as labourers. Their families were making arrangements for their funerals when they returned,

A flash flood and subsequent landslides have killed at least four people and left a trail of destruction in a high-altitude village in north-eastern India, media reports said on Tuesday. Numerous people are missing,

India welcomed the Trump–Putin summit in Alaska as a step toward ending the Ukraine war, even as the talks concluded without a breakthrough. Meanwhile, Northern Pakistan has been devastated by flash floods that killed at least 344 people in 48 hours,

A massive traffic jam brought movement to a standstill at the Mandi–Kullu border, leaving thousands of commuters stranded since midnight of August 16. According to reports, the Chandigarh–Manali National Highway was blocked due to multiple landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall in the region.