Kerala Floods

ONI Bureau:  The Kerala Government on Tuesday announced that it won't host any function that involves huge sums of money for a year and instead divert the amount for flood relief. The cancelled events include the much-acclaimed…

ONI Bureau:  BJD’s Athagarh MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain, popularly known as Raja Swain on Friday donated his prize money (Rs 1 lakh) to Kerala flood victims. The noble act of the six-time legislator Raja Swain came after he was conferred…

Heavy rains and unprecedented floods in Kerala have claimed 417 lives and 36 people are still missing, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Friday. Vijayan told the media that 265 deaths were reported since torrential downpour…

ONI Bureau:  After commendable rescue and relief operation in flood-ravaged Kerala, a 123-member team of Odisha Fire Services personnel landed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport by special flights of Indian Air Force today morning at…

The European Union (EU) has donated an initial 190,000 euros to the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) for providing immediate assistance in flood-devastated Kerala. "In response to the devastating monsoon floods that swept across large…

In the wake of loss of around 370 human lives and widespread destruction due to torrential rains in Kerala and parts of Karnataka, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences on Tuesday proposed to set up a cyclone warning centre in…

The UAE has pledged $100 million for flood-battered Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Tuesday, adding "a new Kerala" needed to be built following the widespread destruction. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), home to…

The Central Government has declared the devastating Kerala floods as a "calamity of severe nature". A statement on Monday by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said that "keeping in view the…

The IAS and IPS officers in Odisha have decided to contribute their one day's salary to help the flood-affected people of Kerala. The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers Association of Odisha and Odisha Indian Police Service…

ONI Bureau:  Odisha people stranded in different parts of flood hited Kerala will be brought back by special trains, Odisha Labour Commissioner Anjan Kumar Manik informed today. Necessary arrangements have been made for those people…