KATHMANDU: Floods and landslides caused by incessant rain killed at least 112 people and several missing in Nepal, officials said on Sunday. Parts of Nepal have been inundated with rainfall since Thursday, prompting disaster authorities to warn of flash floods.Nepal Police Deputy Spokesperson Bishwo Adhikari said that out of the 66 people killed in the…
DEHRADUN: The Joshimath-Malari-Niti national highway (NH107-B), which connects to the Indo-China border, opened late on Sunday after remaining blocked for vehicular movement since Friday due to recurring landslides near Lata village, about 26 km from Joshimath.As a result of the landslides, traffic on the strategic route was severely impacted, particularly restricting the movement of defence…
NEW DELHI: A scientific study has attributed the July 30 devastating Wayanad landslides to a “burst of rainfall” triggered by human-induced climate change. It said more than 140 mm of rains fell in a single day – equivalent to nearly a quarter of London’s annual rainfall – on soils that were already highly saturated following…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for deciding to visit Kerala’s Wayanad which witnessed massive landslides killing over 400 people.PM Modi is set to visit Wayanad today to assess the ongoing relief and rehabilitation efforts in the region, which Rahul himself visited last week…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Wayanad on Saturday to assess the ongoing relief and rehabilitation efforts in the region following massive landslides.PM’s arrival in Kannaur is expected at approximately 11 am. Then, he is scheduled to conduct an aerial survey of the landslide-affected areas in Wayanad.At around 12.15 pm, the Prime Minister…
NEW DELHI: Blaming successive Kerala govts for their neglect of environmental factors that led to the Wayanad disaster, environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday said the state govt did not pay attention to “expansion of illegal human habitation and mining” in ecologically fragile areas, and kept allowing such activities over the years which led to…
KOZHIKODE: They had lived as one in the villages of Mundakkai and Puthumala before the catastrophic landslides washed them away seven days ago and mutilated their bodies so severely that they were unidentifiable even to their loved ones.Twenty-nine unidentified but complete bodies and parts of 154 bodies were interred in graves on 64 cents of…
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday experienced nature’s wrath in its full fury as heavy rainfall lashed several regions, leaving a trail of destruction. The Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand faced the brunt of the disruption caused by a deep depression.The IMD has issued warnings, predicting record rainfall in several regions on Sunday. Meteorologists attribute the…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Friday moved a a privilege motion against Union home minister Amit Shah for his “gave prior warning to Kerala” remark in Rajya Sabha on Wayanad landslides.Accusing Amit Shah of “misleading the Rajya Sabha”, the Congress MP in the letter to the chairman said, “In his response to a…
NEW DELHI: Rainfall in the second half of monsoon season (August-September) is most likely to be ‘above normal’ as there is strong possibility of formation of La Nina conditions by the end of this month, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.Though Aug may see a short break in the monsoon phase towards the middle…
