India, Sept. 16 -- The monsoon remained active in the Himalayan foothills, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, even as it withdrew further from more parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. Heavy to very heavy rainfall was likely to continue in Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim for next two days.

Two people were missing, shops were washed away as heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand triggered floods, water logging, landslides that disrupted traffic along key highways in the early hours of Tuesday and prompted the authorities to activate the Incident Response System, a standardised disaster management mechanism.

Three members of a family were killed and a bus stand was submerged in Mandi as heavy...