MEPPADI: Other than Velayudhan PT (62), no other person would have visited all the houses of the now-lost village of Mundakkai in Kerala’s Wayanad. The sexagenarian — who has three years of service left — visited the village on Tuesday for the first time after the tragedy to find no trace of the post office…
MEPPADI: Other than Velayudhan PT (62), no other person would have visited all the houses of the now-lost village of Mundakkai in Kerala’s Wayanad. The sexagenarian — who has three years of service left — visited the village on Tuesday for the first time after the tragedy to find no trace of the post office…
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…
KOZHIKODE: A four-member forest team spent several hours trekking through 8km of rocky terrain to rescue a tribal family of six, including four minor children, from a cave in Attamala area of Wayanad‘s Chooralmala on Thursday.The team, led by Kalpetta forest range officer K Ashif, had found Santha, a woman belonging to the Paniya community,…
KOZHIKODE: A four-member forest team spent several hours trekking through 8km of rocky terrain to rescue a tribal family of six, including four minor children, from a cave in Attamala area of Wayanad‘s Chooralmala on Thursday.The team, led by Kalpetta forest range officer K Ashif, had found Santha, a woman belonging to the Paniya community,…
Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor, often known for his verbal flair and choice of words, found himself at the receiving end after he shared a video of relief work in landslide-hit Wayanad, calling it ‘memorable.’The four time MP from Thiruvananthapuram shared a video on X from his relief work and captioned it, “Some memories…
Wayanad is placed 13th in Isro’s Landslide Atlas of India-2023 KOCHI: Isro‘s Landslide Atlas of India-2023, which includes landslide exposure analysis carried out in mountainous areas, has placed 13 of Kerala’s 14 districts among the top 50 vulnerable regions in the country.The Atlas ranks 147 landslide-prone districts in 17 states and two Union Territories according…
An animal carcass found in Chooralmala KOCHI: The landslide has struck not just humans but the domestic and pet animals in Meppadi and the rescuers are finding it difficult to rescue or feed them. The animal husbandry department could provide feed for cattle in Vanarani Estate at Chooralmala only on Friday evening, the fourth day…
Army personnel look for survivors in Wayanad on Friday WAYANAD: Hope sprung from the debris of despair in Kerala’s Wayanad Friday after rescuers found a stranded four-member family safe three days after the landslide in Mundakkai, but there was little respite elsewhere as the death toll climbed to 344.A search for survivors using an advanced…
NEW DELHI: Both Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi turned emotional on Thursday after meeting Wayanad landslide victims. Former Wayanad MP Rahul said he was feeling similar to how he felt when his father (Rajiv Gandhi) died. The BJP, meanwhile, took a potshot at the Congress leaders terming it ‘tragedy tourism’. Terming it “quite a difficult day”…
