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Pala town submerged in flood waters on Saturday, August 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Vishnu Pratap Kerala braced for the likelihood of heavy rains and flooding on Sunday (August 2, 2026), the latest in a string of stormy days that have wreaked havoc across the State. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange…
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Rescue operations under way at Payyanithottam, Poonjar, where a landslip was reported on August 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Torrential rain claimed two lives in Kottayam on Saturday (August 1, 2026) after a rain-triggered landslip buried a house at Payanithottam in Kaippally, Poonjar Thekkekara. Also read | Follow the Kerala heavy rains updates…
A loud sound shook Palraj and Koodammal, tea plantation workers in their forties stood waiting for a bus a few metres away from the Meenakshi bridge at Kalladi in Wayanad, Kerala, on the rainy morning of July 7. Clasping Koodammal’s arm, he started running A perfect storm: On the Wayanad debris slip “The sound had…
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‘Not a natural landslide, but a man-made landslide’: T. Siddique “It is not a natural landslide, but a man-made landslide. It is a clear case of lapse. Six people are seriously injured, and they are admitted to the hospital. Their condition is stable. We will continue search and rescue at the site in Kalladi. The…
Wayanad/Thiruvananthapuram: Some of the landslides-affected areas of the Wayanad district may be declared permanent “no habitation” zones following the large devastation caused to their topography, Kerala government authorities fear. The aftermath of the July 30 disaster has left many survivors traumatised, with many not wanting to return to their homes and worried about an alternate…
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All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Kalyan Chaubey. | Photo Credit: ANI The All India Football Federation (AIFF) will be organising two charity football matches to raise funds for relief work in Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, which have been devastated by natural disasters. The AIFF is trying to schedule its first benefit match in Manjeri…
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The recent landslides in Wayanad have prompted the central government to act swiftly in designating Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity in the world. On July 31, the central government issued the sixth iteration of the draft notification,…
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Tragedies like the Wayanad landslides repeat themselves partly because their lessons are not brought to bear on our understanding of the local amplifiers of extreme events. A view of a mountain of the Western Ghats in Wayanad, Kerala, November 15, 2022. | Photo Credit: Nakkeeran Raveendran/Unsplash At no place on the earth is the climate…
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ISRO satellite images show widespread devastation at Wayanad landslide. New Delhi: High resolution images taken by Indian satellites show the widespread damage and devastation caused by landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad. More than 150 people have died and over 200 injured even as the rescue works are ongoing. The before and after images show that about…
For this, the cyber police have intensified monitoring of social media. Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala police have launched an investigation into an alleged social media campaign against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Facebook post requesting help for the people affected by the landslides in Wayanad district. The State Police Media Centre (SPMC) on Thursday said that the…