New Delhi, April 5 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued nowcast warning for more rains in national capital region. It further issued an orange alert for Jharkhand, predicting heavy rains today - 5 April and yellow alert for several northeastern, central, eastern and southern states. Forecasting wet spells in the coming days in the wake of active western disturbance, the weather office predicted "isolated heavy rainfall" in Arunachal Pradesh on 5 April and then again between 7 and 10 April.

Wet spells are also likely in Assam and Meghalaya today and again on 8 and 9 April. "Another successive Western disturbance very likely to affect northwest India during the week with peak activity on 7th & 08th April," IMD said in its la...