Monsoon update, June 26 -- Bihar, Odisha, Sikkim, parts of west Bengal, East Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh are on orange alert today due to possibility of heavy rains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Over monsoon update, the weather agency said conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon into some more parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, some parts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the next three days.

IMD in its latest press release warned against "heavy to very heavy rainfall" along the west coast, over northeast India and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during the week. "Isolated extremely heavy rainfall also likely over Sub-Himalaya...