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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 ...
Reporter TV, an Indian Malayalam-language news channel offered to provide 150 acres (61 hectares) of land for a new township. [158] The Kerala State Electricity Board pledged to supply free electricity to consumers in disaster-hit areas for six months, The board also exempted outstanding amounts in disaster-hit areas. [ 159 ]
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]
In India, a total of 2,038 people were killed, 1,584 others were injured and 101 others were left missing due to flooding-related incidents between 1 April and 17 August. During this period, there were 518 deaths in Bihar , 330 more in Himachal Pradesh , 165 in Gujarat , 138 in Madhya Pradesh , 107 deaths each in Karnataka and Maharashtra , 90 ...
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 ...
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In early September 2024, Vijayawada, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India, experienced severe flooding triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall that began on August 31, 2024. The floods resulted in at least 35 deaths in NTR district and significantly impacted approximately 270,000 people in Vijayawada alone. [ 1 ]
People died but many were rescued with the help of the Indian Navy. 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]