Many more villages have come under the grip of flood as several rivers are in spate in Uttar Pradesh. Heavy release of water from Banbasa barrage and barrages in Nepal has shot up the water level in the Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Sharda, and Ghagra rivers. AIR Gorakhpur correspondent reports that the river Ghaghra is flowing above the danger mark at Elgin Bridge in Barabaki, Ayodhya and Ballia and maintaining a rising trend. Ganga has become steady in Ballia but is rising in Kannauj and Kanpur. Ramganga is flowing over one metre above red-mark at Moradabad while river Sharda has crossed the danger mark at Pallia Kalan in Lakhimpur. AIR correspondent reports, that around two hundred more villages with a population of around 2 lakhs have been submerged by flood water. In Uttrakhand, incessant rain continues to lash most part of the state triggering landslide at several places.