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Rescue operations are ongoing in India’s southern Kerala state on Wednesday after heavy monsoon rains triggered deadly landslides that swept through homes and stranded hundreds of people ...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Monsoon rains hit the coast of India's southernmost state of Kerala on Thursday, two days sooner than expected, weather officials said, offering respite from a ...
The 2024 Wayanad landslides were a series of landslides that occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi panchayat, Vythiri taluk [5] in Wayanad district, Kerala, India in the early hours of 30 July 2024. The landslides were caused by heavy rains that caused hillsides to collapse, destroying the areas ...
India's annual monsoon has covered more than three-fourths of the country and it is set to cover the entire country on time for the planting season despite stalling earlier this month, two senior ...
As of September 4, 2024 Gujarat had received 118% of the season's monsoon rainfall, causing flooding, destruction of infrastructure and crops with at least 20.000 people relocating. [17] On September 26, 46 people, including 37 children, drowned during Hindu festival rituals in flooded bodies of water and rivers. [18]
Rainfall from the southwest monsoon was 23% higher than normal in Kerala in 2018, with August seeing rainfall 96% above normal. [19] On the evening of 8 August, Kerala received heavy rainfall which was 116% more than usual [clarification needed], resulting in dams filling to their maximum capacities. In the proceeding 48 hours, the state ...
The devastation of this year's monsoon season in India, which runs from June to September, has been significant: Local government estimates say that 428 people have died and Himachal Pradesh ...
It was the heaviest monsoon in the last 25 years. More than 1600 people died between June and October 2019. [1] Thirteen states of India were affected by floods due to heavy rains in July–September 2019. [2] News reports later stated that there were 500 people missing and 1000 killed, with people losing their homes.