DEHRADUN, Aug. 9 -- Uttarakhand is bracing for yet another spell of intense monsoon activity, with the next 48 hours likely to remain particularly challenging as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued Orange and Yellow alerts for several districts on August 9-10. The spell of rain is expected to continue on August 11 as well, raising concerns over landslides, falling boulders, waterlogging and disruption of roads and essential services, particularly in the vulnerable mountainous areas.
Several districts of the state have already been receiving intermittent to continuous rainfall over the past few days and the fresh forecast of heavy to very heavy rain over the next two days has prompted the disaster management machinery to r...