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Rescue operations following landslides in Mylambadi, Wayanad district, Kerala, southern India, 30 July 2024.

Relentless downpours and howling winds hampered Wednesday's search for survivors of landslides that struck Indian tea plantations and killed 122 people, most believed to be labourers and their families.

Landslides in India triggered by pounding monsoon rains have killed at least 45 people with at least 250 others rescued from a landscape transformed by mud and debris, officials said Tuesday.

The southern coastal state of Kerala has been battered by torrential downpours, with blocked roads into the disaster area at Wayanad district complicating relief efforts.

Bomb signal at Sofia airport. According to initial information, the authorities are checking one of the planes at the airport. A little later it became clear that the alarm was false.

At least 25 people have died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in southwestern India, officials said on Oct. 17, as rescuers scoured for survivors in muddy debris and the military flew in emergency supplies.

Residents were cut off in parts of the coastal state of Kerala as the rains, which started to intensify from late Oct. 15, swelled rivers and flooded roads.

In this file photo taken on Nov. 16, 2018 Indian Hindu devotees are pictured at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala.

The death toll from devastating floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 445 on Aug. 26 with the discovery of 28 more bodies as the waters recede and a massive cleanup gathers pace, government officials said.

AFP - Hundreds of troops led a desperate operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floods in India's Kerala state Thursday as the death toll reached 106 with nearly 150,000 left homeless.

The death toll from major floods in India's tourist hotspot Kerala has jumped to 164, state chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Friday, issuing a fresh heavy rainfall warning for the battered region.

Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Parliament, believes that India needs a museum on British colonisation of the South Asian country. In his latest publication 'Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India', Chairman of the Indian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee says that the greatest challenge Indians are facing is the decolonisation of the mind.

A massive fire swept through a temple in southern India on April 10, killing more than 100 people after thousands gathered to watch an illegal fireworks display.
 
More than 280 others were injured in the fire that engulfed the Hindu temple complex in Kerala state, where crowds had built up during the night for a festival that boasted the fireworks show.