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As Maharashtra floods yet again, residents of a village in Kolhapur gather what remains of their lives
Sanket Jain •Memories of the 2005 Maharashtra floods haunt the residents of Kavathesar village in Kolhapur district. While some await their return to their homes, others go back to starting their lives from scratch.
In the wake of Kerala floods, diarrhea, dengue on the rise in the state: Health ministry
Ians •Centre to send 30 specialist doctors, 40 nurses and 12 diagnostic teams to attend to flood-hit areas
Kerala, After The Flood: High-level delegation to source relief funds from West Asia and other nations, says Pinarayi Vijayan
•The delegation from Kerala will travel to West Asia, the US, Australia, Germany, Canada, and along with the support of various Malayali organisations in these countries, will seek funds for rebuilding the flood-hit state.
Kerala finance minister announces special lottery to raise funds towards Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund
•Thomas Issac told the media that each lottery ticket would cost Rs 250. The entire proceeds of the lottery will go to the CMDRF for Kerala.
Kodagu floods: 1,800 people return to their homes from relief camps across district, 3,227 remain displaced
Ians •Relief Commissioner Gangaram Baderia said in a statement that the flood-hit Kodagu district in Kerala is slowly returning to normalcy. The 51 temporary relief shelters, which housed 5,041 people across the district last week, have come down to 32, with 3,227 people residing in them.
Siddaramaiah slams Nirmala Sitharaman for lashing out at Karnataka minister, says state officials 'not inferior to the Centre'
Fp Staff •Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah commented on the row over Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's visit to the state's Kodagu district during which she lost patience with the district-in-charge minister for Kodagu, Sa Ra Mahesh.
Centre declares Kerala floods ‘Level-3’ calamity; demand to call it ‘national disaster’ either ignorance or mischief
Srinivasaprasad •A Level-3 tag for the Kerala floods means that the Centre must help the state with its personnel and funds, which the Narendra Modi government has already begun to do.
Kerala floods: Helpline numbers, emergency contact details, and how you can help with donations, supplies, medicines
Fp Staff •Kerala has been ravaged by unprecedented floods following torrential rains that also triggered landslides, claiming 97 lives since 8 August besides disrupting air, rail and road traffic in several places.
Flood in southeast Myanmar forces 150,000 people to flee homes; 28,000 still stuck in waterlogged homes
•Evacuation orders are still in place across the Bago, Karen, Mon and Taninthari provinces in Myanmar, with 36 dams and reservoirs overflowing.
Over 100 people missing and several feared to be dead after collapse of under-construction dam in Attapeu province in Laos
•The accident happened at a hydropower dam in Laos's Attapeu province. It caused release of five billion cubic metres of water.