India, Aug. 25 -- Parts of northwest India will continue to witness heavy rainfall till Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. During the past 24 hours, heavy to very heavy rainfall has been recorded over parts of Punjab and Haryana, isolated places over Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Heavy rainfall was also recorded at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, East Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

According to IMD, the monsoon trough is running near its normal position. An upper air cyclonic circulation is lying over northwest Bay of Bengal off Odisha-West Bengal coasts at lower and middle tropospheric levels tilting southwards with height.

Under its influence...