{"id":21,"date":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/heavy-rain-alert-issued-across-northern-india\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","slug":"heavy-rain-alert-issued-across-northern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Alert Issued Across Northern India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, Aug 18 \u2014 The India Meteorological Department has issued a heavy rain alert covering large parts of northern India, warning of intense showers and lightning over the next 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster response teams in affected districts have been asked to remain on standby, and district administrations have been advised to clear drainage channels ahead of the spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, Aug 18 \u2014 The India Meteorological Department has issued a heavy rain alert covering large parts of northern India, warning of intense showers and lightning over the next 72 hours. Disaster response teams&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}