The Army, the National Disaster Response Force, police and the fire force along with the locals began rescue operations on Sunday morning at Koottickal and Kokkayar panchayats where over a dozen people are listed to be missing due to numerous landslides accompanied by heavy downpour since Saturday.
It seems that the government is deliberately playing down the role the armed forces have played in the relief of operations. Why is the state government reluctant to do so? Why is it also not ready to accept help from other states, asks Colonel (retd) Anil Athale.
At least nine Army personnel, including an officer, were on Saturday washed away in strong water currents of Jhelum River as their boat capsized during a rescue operation in flood-affected Pulwama district of Kashmir, an official said.
Swirling floodwaters have paralysed normal life and marooned over 1.20 crore people.
Even as the state is being lashed with torrential rainfall, with weather department officials describing it as the worst rainfall in 100 years, army and naval troops have already answered the calls for help and rushed in to save stranded people.
Flood waters engulfed vast areas of the delta region of Mahanadi river system in Odisha even as the death toll due to heavy rains and floods in the state climbed to 34.
Outside the relief base camp set up by the state government at the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneur Development Institute in Pampore, Afroza, 58, is waiting for a bag of rice since morning, but her wait, like her hunger, does not seem to come to an end.
In the Northeast, while three people died in Assam, two each lost their lives in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram in rain-related incidents.
Ravichandran Ashwin shared a video spotlighting the storm's impact on roads, revealing extensive damage.
Azad said the government uses north-east 'only for political purposes' and not to provide succour to flood-affected people.
Year after year, floods cause mayhem in Bihar but the government is not paying adequate attention to water management.
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The water level rose above the danger mark in Haridwar and Delhi and the level at Bhakra dam was a foot above the permissible mark.
Heavy monsoon showers hit the flood-hit regions of Pakistan on Sunday, worsening the flooding and impeding relief operations, compounding a humanitarian crisis that has affected over 14 million people across the country and claimed nearly 1,700 lives so far.
Several villages in Punjab and Haryana have been affected by the overflowing Ghaggar river after the recent downpour.
Five people, including a toddler, have been killed and over 100,000 people evacuated in Malaysia after one of the country's worst floods hit 4 states, forcing Prime Minister Najib Razak to cut short his holiday in the US.
Evacuation of people living in low lying areas of the Yamuna floodplains began Monday evening with the river crossing the danger mark due to release of water from Hathnikund barrage in Haryana amid heavy rains in the northern belt of the country.
Three days after it offered US $ five million to Pakistan for flood relief, India was still awaiting a response amid reports that the aid may be accepted if it was routed through the UN. Sources in New Delhi said today India was willing to consider giving more aid but was awaiting a response to its initial offer made by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, who spoke to his Pakistani counterpart S M Qureshi last week.
'It was my job to read out their lines to the actors and make sure they spoke them with the right diction, accent and pronunciation. If you look at my photographs from the Sadma set, you will always find me with a file in hand, even when I am in my costume. While Kamal and Sridevi were diligent about their Hindi dialogue, Silk Smitha, while always respectful, was not too interested in her lines or my instructions.'
A day after Cyclone Yaas tore through coastal Odisha and Bengal to cause havoc as far as Jharkhand, tornadoes, torrential rains, bridge collapses and swelling rivers continued to plague eastern India as people tried to pick up their lives amid the debris of swept away mud homes and swamped farmlands.
Bharadwaj said it has not rained in Delhi in the last 3-4 days, yet still the water level in Yamuna reached 208.66 metres.
The two AAP leaders later filed a revision application in the sessions court challenging the metropolitan court's summons in the defamation case.
The flood situation remained critical in Assam, affecting over 7.35 lakh people from 1,597 villages have been inundated by the surging waters.
The staff and security personnel are performing their duties using mechanised and country boats to deal with any kind of eventualities, they said.
Twenty-six teams of veterinary experts and sanitation employees were sent to the area to dispose of the rotting animal carcasses without any delay, he said.
Four teams of the National Disaster Response Force have been deployed for relief and rescue operations in the worst flood-affected districts of Assam. The floods have affected nearly two lakh people and claimed four lives. According to the NDRF control room, relief and rescue operations in the districts of Lakhimpur, Dhubri, Sonitpur and Jorhat have been assisted by the force by deploying one team in each of these districts.
Makkal Needhi Maiam chief and Tamil movie superstar Kamal Hassan reviewed the waterlogging situation in Thanthai Periyar Nagar in Chennai on Friday, November 12, and distributed relief material.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Narendra Modi should be referred to as a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and not as the prime minister in the saffron party's campaign as he is a 'caretaker PM'.
After causing widespread damage in northern Punjab in Pakistan, the devastating floods now threaten the historic city of Multan and its famous shrines, even as authorities struggle to save the city.
The cyclone ravaged adjacent coasts of the state and Bangladesh between Sagar Island and Khepupara, near the southwest of Mongla in the neighbouring country, after its landfall process began at 8.30 pm on Sunday.
The state government was informed about the Rs 500 crore bill by the Union home ministry through a letter dated February 6.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took stock of the flood situation in Tamil Nadu and discussed it with his cabinet colleagues, including the Home and Finance ministers.
As gushing water from breaches in Orissa's Mahanadi delta engulfed fresh areas, more naval and paramilitary men on Tuesday joined relief work for the marooned people in the flood, which has affected 38 lakh people and claimed at least 31 lives.Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday on a day's visit to make an aerial survey and assess the damage.
Over 20,000 people have been displaced with officials warning the situation could get worse.
The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services.
"We are making serious attempts to rescue people marooned in flood waters based on inputs we get from various sources, including people," asserted a top Indian Air Force official overseeing the marathon operations by his force amidst allegations by some people that forces had not reached all the affected people.
