-The Times of India PALANPUR: Tragedy struck Khariya village in Gujarat's Banaskantha on Wednesday when 18 bodies — all close relatives — were recovered from a river bank, taking the flood related death toll since the beginning of monsoon to 119. The toll may go up as rescue operations are on. Villagers in Khariya watched in disbelief as the bodies were found one after another from the slush and placed in a...
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3 killed in Meghalaya landslide, 30,000 hit by floods in Assam -Manosh Das & Anup Dutta
-The Times of India SHILLONG/ JORHAT: At least three people, including a minor, were killed and two women reported missing following a massive landslide in Meghalaya's Ri-Bhoi district on Saturday morning. "The landslide occurred inside an industrial area of the Meghalaya Industrial Development Corporation in Umiam," said Ramesh Singh, Ri-Bhoi SP. The disaster was triggered by incessant rain in the region for the past few days. With more people feared trapped under...
More »No rain mercy: Floods, lightning claim 74 lives
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The flood situation in Assam, where two more people were killed on Sunday, and Bihar remained grim, while the death toll in lightning strikes in Odisha in the last 24 hours climbed from 32 to 45, taking the overall number of casualties to 74. In Assam, 29 people have so far died as more than 16 lakh people remain affected in 21 districts. About 150 rural...
More »Flood situation in Bihar worsens, 2.6 million hit
-The Times of India PATNA: The flood situation in Bihar worsened on Sunday, with many rivers breaching their banks and affecting hundreds of thousands of people, officials said. More than 2.6 million people have been hit by the floods in the state including half a million who have been displaced across 12 districts, the officials said. Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav visited the flood affected Supaul district on Sunday and said:...
More »The season of scorching ironies -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu It is the Supreme Court and not Parliament that has found time to pay attention to serious issues of drought relief and mitigation for hundreds of millions of Indians Irony. This one word captures our response to the ongoing nationwide drought in more ways than one. We have woken up to the reality of drought a full six months after the end of monsoon. After waking up, we focus on...
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