Kulgam: Security personnel keep a vigil amid an ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists in a forest area at Akhal, in Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Rescue personnel assist people in moving on a route blocked by debris and boulders after heavy rainfall during the annual ‘Kedarnath Yatra’, near Gaurikund, in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand.

People take a boat ride at Rajapur area inundated with water of the swollen Ganga river, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

The Ganga river flows in spate during the monsoon season as it passes under the Howrah Bridge, in Kolkata, West Bengal.

People at an area inundated with the Yamuna river water at Garatha village, in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh.