The iconic Taj Mahal in Agra faced monsoon fury as the portion of the Yamuna river flowing alongside the Taj Mahal rose to 152 metres (499 feet) late on Tuesday, well above the warning level for the potential danger of 151.4 metres. Videos of Yamuna water touching Taj Mahal’s outer wall went viral on social media
India Today’s OSINT team accessed a layout of the Taj Mahal featured in the architectural magazine Archi Monarch. The blueprint shows the main tomb positioned on the southern bank of the Yamuna River on an expansive platform approximately 22 feet high
The Yamuna waters touched the walls of the Taj Mahal in 2010 and, prior to that, in the year 1978. In the 1978 flood, water had entered rooms in the monument's basement, as per Archeological Survey of India’s (ASI) Agra Circle Prince Vajpayee
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Check out the before and after satellite images of what changed when Yamuna water lapped the outer walls of the Taj Mahal recently
India Today's OSINT team also analysed the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, generated by satellites illuminating radio waves during the night, obtained from Earth Observation component of the European Union's space programme, Copernicus services, Sentinel Hub, of the inundated regions of Mathura, Agra, and Vrindavan, to map the extent of the swollen state of river Yamuna
About 1.37 lakh cusecs of water was released from the Gokul barrage on Tuesday, leading to the rise of water level in Yamuna to 498.90 feet in Agra region
As a result of the water release from Okhla Barrage in Delhi, Mathura is currently grappling with floods. On Monday, the road connecting Bengali Ghat to Vishram Ghat was inundated, further exacerbating the situation
As per the analysis of the SAR images of Mathura’s twin city, Vrindavan, the inflation of the river has gone from just 273 m wide as seen in the imagery of July 7 to 4.53 km on July 16. Near the Chamunda Devi temple in Vrindavan, the floodwaters enveloped an area of approximately 1.5 km along the 12-kilometre-long Yamuna stretch, having waterlogging till the Varah ghat
Delhi received excess rainfall of 79 per cent from 1 to 18 July, as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD). During the same period, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Uttarakhand, provinces located upstream, experienced significant surges in rainfall