{"id":56676,"date":"2023-07-14T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/14\/india-new-delhi-flooded-swollen-river-broken-regulator-video-report"},"modified":"2023-07-14T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:33:45","slug":"india-delhi-flooded-after-swollen-river-breaks-through-broken-regulator-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56676","title":{"rendered":"India: Delhi flooded after swollen river breaks through broken regulator \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several areas of India&#8217;s capital were flooded on Friday after water from the swollen Yamuna River flowed into the city through a broken drain regulator. The river&#8217;s levels were at their highest in 45 years this week, after unusually heavy rainfall in Delhi and the country\u2019s hilly northern states, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people during the last two days, as the river breached its banks. Since the rainy monsoon season began on 1 June, Delhi has recorded 113% above-average rainfall, according to the Indian meteorological department<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/10\/tomato-crisis-hits-india-as-rain-ravages-crops-and-prices-rise-400-percent\">Tomato crisis hits India as rain ravages crops and prices rise 400%<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/14\/india-new-delhi-flooded-swollen-river-broken-regulator-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several areas of India&#8217;s capital were flooded on Friday after water from the swollen Yamuna River flowed into the city through a broken drain regulator. The river&#8217;s levels were at their highest in 45 years this week, after unusually heavy rainfall in D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[313,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flooding","category-india","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56676\/revisions\/56677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}