{"id":302043,"date":"2018-09-01T07:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T07:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302043"},"modified":"2018-09-01T07:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T07:39:47","slug":"heavy-rains-lash-delhi-ncr-cause-traffic-jams-waterlogging-in-several-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/heavy-rains-lash-delhi-ncr-cause-traffic-jams-waterlogging-in-several-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains lash Delhi-NCR, cause traffic jams, waterlogging in several areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302045 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delhi-rains-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/delhi-rains-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/delhi-rains-467x420.jpg 467w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/delhi-rains.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Heavy rains in several parts of Delhi on Saturday, brought relief from the humid weather but flooded roads added to the trouble of morning commuters, especially\u00a0motorists and pedestrians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi Traffic police have been tweeting alerts about\u00a0flooding on some roads in the city\u00a0and asked commuters to avoid taking these routes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi Traffic police have asked people to avoid the stretch from DND towards Ashram due to the breakdown of a bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Traffic in central and south Delhi has been affected the most due to flooding at several major roads and intersections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Traffic is slow at the busy ITO intersection. Minto Bridge underpass has been closed for vehicular movement due to waterlogging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The market area in the shopping hub of\u00a0Lajpat Nagar, RTR Marg, Laxmi Nagar, GT Karnal Road, IP Marg has also been affected by the slow traffic due to heavy rains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minimum temperature on Saturday was recorded at 23.5 degrees, three notches below the season&#8217;s average. The Met forecast more spells of rains to occur during the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a Met department official, &#8220;The sky will remain generally cloudy with light to moderate rains\u201d. The maximum temperature is likely to settle between 32-35 degrees Celsius.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in several parts of Delhi on Saturday, brought relief from the humid weather but flooded roads added to the trouble of morning commuters, especially\u00a0motorists and pedestrians. The Delhi Traffic police have been tweeting alerts about\u00a0flooding on some roads in the city\u00a0and asked commuters to avoid taking these routes. The Delhi Traffic police have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,4545,3861,4546,2862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302046,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302043\/revisions\/302046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}