Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday attributed the lanslide victory in the Madhya Pradesh elections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity and welfare schemes in both the central and state governments.
After the exit-poll predicted that Congress is poised to form government in Telangana, state Congress president Revanth Reddy asserted that the grand old party is going to get landslide victory this time and the same thing is reflected in the exit polls.
A technical team, which was tasked with assessing the cause and impact of floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh, has attributed the calamities to overburdening of the surface and lack of controlled drainage in Shimla and other parts of the state.
The Tamil Nadu Disaster Rescue team rescued 10 people on Friday who were trapped due to a landslide in the Sengal Combai Tribal Settlement since Thursday evening, located in an interior forest area 20 km from Coonoor.
Ten places on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam National Highway and the Kothagiri-Mettupalayam Highway in Nilgiris district, which were hit by landslides and mudslides, were cleared of debris on Friday.
A bus was damaged as a tree fell on it due to a landslide in Burliyar between Mettupalayam and Coonoor in Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, after heavy rainfall in the region on Thursday.
Indian Railways on Wednesday suspended train services on the Nilgiri Mountain Rail Route (NMR) between Coonoor and Mettupalayam following heavy rainfall and landslides, that affected the century-old rail rout.
Efforts to rescue trapped 41 workers in the ongoing Silkyara tunnel collapse received a setback when the piling machine being transported for the rescue operation got stuck due to the narrow road leading to the spot.
A six-inch pipe has been laid at the Silkyara tunnel through which nutritious food and medicines could be supplied to the 41 labourers, trapped for over a week after parts of the under-construction structure collapsed following a landslide.
The experts included in the committee constituted by the government under the chairmanship of the Director, Uttarakhand Landslide Mitigation and Management Center to study and investigate the causes of collapse in Silkyara Tunnel have inspected the site and started the investigation.
During the inspection, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami directed the officials to speed up the relief and rescue work. He said that it is the top priority of the government to quickly rescue the labourers trapped in the tunnel, for which every possible effort is being made.