Engineering students in the state capital have developed emergency power banks for people marooned in the flood. The armed forces on Saturday began aerial-dropping hundreds of these power banks in flooded areas as the stranded would have exhausted the battery charges of cell phones. Inspire, a fraternity of mechanical engineering students at the Government Engineering […]
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From flood-ravaged Cheruthoni comes a story of grit of the Coast Guard and armed forces personnel who saved a newly-born baby in a night-long rescue operation near the Idukki dam two days ago. The rescue operation began after a call from the Mumbai Coast Guard about rising water level in the Idukki dam area, the […]
A rope tied across the road by the police, without advance notice, has resulted in the death of a 21-year-old bike rider. Reni Robinson, son of Robinson David, a resident of Nalanda Road at Nanthancode in the capital city, died instantly as the rope slashed his neck on Friday, around midnight, near Manmohan Bungalow at […]
Pounded by rain, inundated by flood waters and struck by multiple landslides, Idukki district – one of the worst-hit – remains cut off from the other parts of Kerala, making it extremely difficult for officials to undertake relief and rescue operations. With food and water running out, Idukki MP Joice George sent out an SOS […]
Thiruvananthapuram: 324 people have died and several hundred others injured, as Kerala is battered by the worst floods in a century. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took an aerial survey in Kerala’s Kochi this morning, after a short delay due to unfavourable weather conditions. Hundreds of thousands have been shifted to relief camps as nearly […]
US state election officials are demanding better access to sometimes classified federal government information about hacking threats to voting systems. With less than three months until the November midterm elections, 44 states, the District of Columbia, and numerous counties on Wednesday participated in a simulation that tested the ability of state and federal officials to […]
For the third successive day, heavy rains lashed Kerala’s Kozhikode, Malappuram and Wayanad districts on Wednesday, triggering fresh landslides and adding to the woes of a state battling the worst flooding in 94 years. IMD authorities have predicted heavy rains till Saturday, August 18, across all districts in Kerala. Red alert has been issued in […]
Aishwarya Rai Bachchans iconic status never comes in the way of her duties as a mother, a wife, daughter and daughter-in-law — in that order. She says she has tried to keep the atmosphere around daughter Aaradhya “as normal as possible”. Just how she manages to fulfil all her and still finds time to be […]
Effective Employee Retention Strategies It’s every manager’s nightmare: One of your best employees resigns out of the blue. Right away, you’ve got a number of challenges to tackle on top of your daily responsibilities. Not only do you have to find a replacement for such a talented team member — no small feat when skilled […]
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh has arrested the seventh suspect in the case, according to senior police officials investigating the case. Mohan Nayak was picked up from his village by officials of the SIT on Wedesnday night and was produced in the third additional chief metropolitan magistrate court […]