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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 ...
The state also is regarded as the "least corrupt Indian state" according to the surveys conducted by CMS Indian Corruption Study (CMS-ICS) [381] Transparency International (2005) [382] and India Today (1997). [383] Kerala has the lowest homicide rate among Indian states, with 1.1 per 100,000 in 2011. [384]
Air pollution, poor management of waste, growing water scarcity, falling groundwater tables, water pollution, preservation and quality of forests, biodiversity loss, and land/soil degradation are some of the major environmental issues India faces today. [12] India's population growth adds pressure to environmental issues and its resources.
The 2023 Kozhikode train arson attack occurred on the night of April 2, 2023, when a lone Islamic terrorist named Sharukh Saifi [1] set fire to coach number D1 of the Alappuzha-Kannur Express near Elathur railway station in Kozhikode district, Kerala, India. [2] The incident resulted in the death of three passengers, including a child.
The social thought and behaviour of the State in general has a strong inclination towards leftism and thus the communist parties have made strong inroads in Kerala. Kerala was the first Indian state where the communists were voted to power. [28] The Malabar region, particularly Kannur and Palakkad are considered to heartland of communist parties.
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala (which was also the first reported case in all of India) was confirmed in Thrissur on 30 January 2020. [3] [4] [5] As of 5 April 2022, there have been 65,34,352 confirmed cases, test positivity rate is at 2.04% (13.96% cumulative), with 64,62,811 (98.91%) recoveries and 68,197 (1.04%) deaths in the state.
Silent Valley movement was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent Valley, an evergreen sub-tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was started in 1966 by an NGO led by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) to save the Silent Valley from being flooded by a hydroelectric project. In February 1973, the Planning ...
Hema Committee was an advisory committee formed by the Government of Kerala in July 2017, to investigate the issues related to sexual violence and gender inequality, in the Malayalam cinema industry and to submit solutions to them. [1] It was a three-member committee chaired by former Kerala High Court judge Justice Hema. [2]