The Kerala government on Saturday announced that a township will be established in a secure area to rehabilitate those displaced by the catastrophic landslide that occurred in the Mundakkai region of Wayanad district.
Five more people were killed in villages in southwest China after surging waters swept them away even as the official death toll in rain-triggered floods in the region since early this month reached 175.
"This follows disgraceful attacks on the Indian cultural centre, temples and Hindu homes in several places, even as reports came in of Muslim civilians protecting other minority homes and places of worship," Tharoor said in a post on X.
Days after the worst storm in 60 years hit the Chinese capital, government on Thursday more than doubled the death toll to 77 after the public questioned the low casualty figures.
A new murder case has been filed against Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 62 others, including ex-ministers of her cabinet, over the death of a fish trader during the quota reform protests in the country, a media report said on Monday.
The first fatality from COVID-19 was reported from the Washington state on February 26.
Cold wave claimed 204 lives in north India as dense fog returned to the region after a gap of two days affecting flights and trains in the national capital even as parts of Kashmir experienced sub-zero temperatures.
A man, who received severe head injuries in the May 13 Jaipur blasts, succumbed on Friday, raising the death toll in the serial bombings to 66.
Even as the death toll in the death of infants in Malda medical college hospital rose to 16, a three member expert team on Sunday ascertained that the casualties were caused due to malnutrition and low weight.
A packed beyond capacity bus carrying passengers returning to work after Diwali fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand's Almora district on Monday, killing at least 36 of the over 60 people on board.
Monday also saw the new confirmed infections of COVID-19 outside Hubei reduced to a number lower than 100 for the first time, Mi told the media..
The death toll in Bihar floods rose to 9 on Monday with more than 11 lakh people in nearly 600 villages affected.
The commission added that 11,977 patients remained in severe condition, and 5,248 people were suspected of being infected with the virus, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
With four more people, including two children, falling prey to rain-related incidents, the death toll in the deluge on Monday increased to 37 in Rajasthan.
A man, who sustained severe injuries during one of the three blasts in the city, on Friday, succumbed to injuries, taking the death toll in the bombings to 18.
The toll in the clashes between minority migrants and Bodo tribals rose to 53 in Assam on Saturday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited worst-hit Kokrajhar district.
The death toll in the avalanche that struck a village of Gurez valley near the Line of Control has gone up to three, according to a police spokesman.
Two more bodies were on Friday recovered from the fire-ravaged Maharashtra government secretariat taking the death toll to five even as Mumbai Police registered a case of accidental death in the incident.
Doctors said there would be a gradual decrease in the number of dengue patients over the next few days as the outbreak had crossed its peak period.
Racing against time, rescue workers scrambled to extricate people trapped in the rubble of the factory building which collapsed on Sunday in Jalandhar as the death toll rose to four on Tuesday.
Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh said 45 cases have been registered against the encroachers in which 3000 persons have made the accused.
Heavy rains last week caused massive floods and landslides in large parts of the state, especially in the coastal Konkan and Western Maharashtra regions.
The death toll from the worst landslides in decades in a Tibetan-majority region in China's northwest rose sharply on Wednesday to 1,117 while 627 people were still missing, as rescuers scrambled hard to sift through thick layers of mud and rocks to find possible survivors.
Five bodies of schoolchildren were recovered from the lake on Wednesday morning.
The death toll in the landmine blast triggered by the Maoists in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district on March 27 has risen to 13 with the death of a Central Reserve Police Force trooper, police said on Thursday.
As several more people are feared dead in the incident, the search operation launched by the teams of police and the National Disaster Response Force is still on, an official said.
The torrential rain that took place between September 27 and 30 has created a flood-like situation in 15 districts of the state, including the state capital.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 64,73,544 with 79,476 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll climbed to 1,00,842 with the virus claiming 1,069 lives in a span of 24 hours, data updated at 8 am showed.
Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts, who was admitted to KEM Hospital in Mumbai, succumbed to his injuries on Monday taking the death toll in the terror attack to 24.
The death toll climbed to 3,03,720 with 4,454 daily deaths, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The flood situation in West Bengal continued to be grim with most of the major rivers in spate following increased discharge from DVC dams and barrages as the death toll shot to 47 on Saturday.
Rescue operations were underway on Friday to trace over 45 people missing following flash floods triggered by cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Friday.
The ill-fated building had been partly vacated for repairs by Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, BMC sources said.
Local people had hoped that all the floodwater would be cleared by Friday but the opposite occurred.
27 others were also injured when an under-construction four-storied building came crashing down on Wednesday.
A 35-year-old man, who was injured in the serial blasts in Mumbai on July 13, died at a hospital, taking the blasts death toll to 21.
The other members of the interim government will be finalised after consultations with various political parties, the press secretary added.
Moreover, the process to release those arrested between July 1 to August has started, and many have already been released, it added.
The ICC on Tuesday said the Women's T20 World Cup will be moved to the United Arab Emirates due to the prevailing unrest in Bangladesh
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had said those killed in the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, had died from the effects of the gas, adding that dozens more suffered respiratory problems and other symptoms.
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