MONSOON UPDATES : Rain Alert! IMD issues 'red alert' for several districts of Madhya Pradesh

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday predicted heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the next two days in several states including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.

At least 50 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday as reported by news agency Reuters. At least 36 people were killed in Himachal Pradesh, while in neighbouring Uttarakhand, an official government release said that four were dead and 13 were missing due to continuous rainfall.