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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicKerala floods

Topic: Kerala floods

2 Supreme Court judges perform on stage to raise funds for Kerala flood victims

Singer Mohit Chauhan croons a number songs as Justices Kurian Joseph and K.M. Joseph sing solos in Hindi, English and Malayalam.

Floods in Kerala, India’s top gold buyer, may affect wedding season demand

The usual spend of 200 grams to 1 kilogram of gold per wedding in Kerala may drop 50 per cent in the next month.

If Pakistan could help after 2001 Gujarat quake why can’t UAE aid Kerala, some ask

Vajpayee government even accepted aid from Pakistan after 2001 earthquake while UPA accepted money after 2004 tsunami.

Climate change and bad development practices to blame for Kerala floods, says expert

Destruction caused by the Kerala floods would have been less severe if the government followed the recommendations of the Gadgil Committee report on preservation...

Kerala may have to wait until June 2019 for full flood financial package

According to existing guidelines on disaster relief funds, the centre releases the amount in each financial year in two instalments in June and December.

UAE should help Kerala on the ground, not just write a cheque

UAE is wealthy & has strong state capacity, built with help of Kerala’s workers. It should return the favour & help rebuild Kerala’s infrastructure.

Kerala floods: This is what Kochi has to do to avoid drowning again

After being marooned for days, Kochi residents say the city needs better planning and removal of illegal encroachment over canals.

Had it not been for its IAS officers, Kerala’s flood damage would have been worse

Kerala IAS officers had designed a system that flood-prone states UP and Bihar still lack

Onam celebrations are a low key affair as Kerala recovers from flood devastation

The government cancelled celebrations, but the spirit of the festival lives on in relief camps.

Kerala relief fund crisis, and Rahul Gandhi’s Germany speech

The best cartoons of the day.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.