Gandak flood breaks water-level records, NASA report confirms: Chaudhary

Patna, Oct 3 (UNI) Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Water Resources Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary on Saturday said the unprecedented flooding of the Gandak river this year and its extensive spread have now been corroborated by a scientific report published by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Chaudhary told news persons here that NASA had documented, through satellite imagery, the historic rise in the Gandak''s water level from Nepal to Bihar and the extensive inundation caused by the swollen river. The Deputy Chief Minister said NASA''s Earth Observatory, in a report published on October 2, noted that the…