{"id":9317,"date":"2023-07-15T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2023-07-15T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:21:58","slug":"yamuna-river-surge-halts-indias-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/asia\/south-asia\/india\/yamuna-river-surge-halts-indias-capital\/2023\/07\/15\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamuna river surge halts India\u2019s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s army and disaster relief personnel are opening some jammed floodgates at a barrage on the swollen river Yamuna to help drain out floodwater that has brought life to a standstill in parts of India\u2019s capital and inundated historical monuments.<\/p>\n<p>Yamuna river\u2019s levels was seen at their highest in 45 years this week following unusually heavy rainfall in New Delhi and hilly northern states, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people as the Yamuna breached its banks.<\/p>\n<p>Army and disaster relief personnel were also trying to repair a broken drain regulator from where water was flowing onto a key road, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prevent water from flowing into the city, we are trying to create a dam,\u201d said Saurabh Bharadwaj, Delhi\u2019s flood control and irrigation minister.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s army and disaster relief personnel are opening some jammed floodgates at a barrage on the swollen river Yamuna to help drain out floodwater that has brought life to a standstill in parts of India\u2019s capital and inundated historical monuments. Yamuna river\u2019s levels was seen at their highest in 45 years this week [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/India-floods.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}