Kerala government refuted on Wednesday Union home minister Amit Shah‘s statement in Parliament that central agencies had issued advance extreme weather warnings for Wayanad, where rain-triggered landslides early Tuesday killed more than 160 people.Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Shah’s remarks were “inconsistent with the facts”. The area where the disaster hit, only an orange alert…
NEW DELHI: Kerala health minister Veena George suffered minor injuries after her official vehicle met with an accident on Wednesday morning while she was on her way to the landslide-hit Wayanad district.Following the mishap, the minister was taken to the emergency department of Manjeri Medical College for treatment.She was visiting Wayanad after a series of…
NEW DELHI: Landslides that hit the ecologically fragile region of Wayanad in Kerala on Tuesday is a stark reminder of the failure of successive govts in notifying the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) – a prerequisite to preserving the terrain by banning environmentally hazardous human activities.Despite five draft notifications by the Centre since…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that he has not been able to visit his former parliamentary constituency of Wayanad even after the devastating landslides killed over 100 due to ‘adverse weather‘. Rahul said that he along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were scheduled visit Wayanad on…
NEW DLEHI: Massive landslides have struck various hilly areas near Meppadi in Wayanad district, Kerala, early on Tuesday, causing concerns that hundreds may be trapped. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has deployed Fireforce and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams to the affected areas, with an additional NDRF team on its way to…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has resigned from his Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. He has chosen to retain his Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The Lok Sabha Secretariat confirmed his resignation, effective from June 18. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge had announced the decision following discussions with the party’s top leaders at…
NEW DELHI: In what may change the complexion of both Parliament and opposition politics, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will take the electoral plunge from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which her brother Rahul Gandhi has decided to vacate while retaining Rae Bareli in UP.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made the two announcements to the media on…
NEW DELHI: Finally, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has agreed to take the plunge into electoral politics. Priyanka has had a long association with politics. But till now, she has chosen to play the role of a facilitator, nurturing the constituencies of her mother Sonia Gandhi and also her brother Rahul. “I’m not nervous at all… I…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Raul Gandhi’s decision to retain Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh prompting his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, to contest the bypolls for the Wayanad seat in Kerala sparked criticism from BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala, who accused the Congress party of operating as a ‘family business.’Poonawalla on Monday said, “Congress is not a…
KOZHIKODE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who won in Wayanad and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituencies, said during his Wayanad visit that he was in a dilemma over which of the two he should represent in Parliament. “Everybody knows the answer except me. In politics, everybody knows everything except the person who is doing it,” he…
