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August 16, 2018

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 16: As roads turn into 'rivers' in many places in rain-battered Kerala, families trapped in high rise flats, students stranded in hostels and devotees in churches are using social media platforms to seek help and pass on information about their location.

Videos of people pleading for help with folded hands, are being posted and shared by hundreds of people on WhatsApp groups since last night.

Panic-struck relatives are also sharing the location of their near and dear ones trapped in various places using Google maps.

Various regional channels have also published their numbers through news bulletins for stranded people to contact them and share details of their location, to be passed on to authorities.

"We are in the second floor of the house... the first floor is almost flooded... the mobile phone is running out of charge... please rescue us... please," a man from Ranni said in a video which has gone viral on social media.

"There are tiny tots and senior citizens with us... water is now scaling up to the second floor," he said.

An NRI woman was heard pleading on a TV channel for help to rescue her relatives stranded in a house in Pathanamthitta district, which has been witnessing heavy rainfall since last evening.

In Pathanamthitta, a district in central Kerala which is submerged in water, students and devotees trapped in churches are seeking help through social media.

A family with a two-month-old baby is stranded at a house at Athani near Kochi and sought help via WhatsApp.

Patients of a private hospital in Kozhencherry, the first floor which was flooded, also appealed for help.

Those stranded were worried about lack of drinking water and food and disruption of power supply.

"We are awaiting rescue teams... TV channels are showing that the Army and Navy personnel will come to rescue us... we are trying to contact the emergency numbers... but nobody is picking up," an anxious man was seen telling a television channel over phone.

With the flood situation going out of control, local people are also doing their bit helping police, fire service and other defence personnel in most places.

With water overflowing on roads and national highways, people are using every possible mode from huge vessels to 'vallam' (wooden country boats) to rescue and ferry people especially women and children to safer places.

A weeping woman carrying her new-born twins was rescued from near Aluva, which has been battered in the monsoon fury.

Elderly men and women were seen thanking rescuers with teary eyes.

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Robin, Calicut
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Thursday, 16 Aug 2018

State Emergency Operation Centre - 0471-2364424

State disaster management control room - 0471-2331639

Revenue department helpline number - 0471-2518595, 9995484519, 9496253850

Revenue department flood rescue state-wide toll free number : 1077, 1070 (Prefix the STD codes of the respective district)

Chief minister's helpline number - 0471-2333812

State disaster relief authority numbers

Pathanamthitta - +918078808915 (Whatsapp) / 0468-2322515/2222515

Idukki - +919383463036 (Whatsapp) / 0486-233111/2233130

Kollam - +919447677800 (Whatsapp) / 0474-2794002

Alappuzha - +919495003640 (Whatsapp) / 0477-2238630

Idukki - +919383463036 (Whatsapp) / 0486-2233111

Kottayam - +919446562236 (Whatsapp) / 0481 - 2304800

Ernakulam - +917902200400 (Whatsapp) / 0484-2423513/2433481

District level helpline numbers

Idukki : 0486 2233111, 9061566111, 9383463036

Ernakulam : 0484 2423513, 7902200300, 7902200400

Thrissur : 0487 2362424, 9447074424

Palakkad : 0491 2505309, 2505209, 2505566

Malappuram : 0483 2736320, 0483 2736326

Kozhikode : 0495 2371002

Kannur : 0497 2713266, 0497 2700645, 8547616034

Wayanad : 04936 204151,9207985027

Pathanamthitta district

Control room numbers

Collectorate: 04682322515, 2222515, 8078808915

Taluk ofices

Kozhenchery 04682222221

Adur: 04734224826

Konni: 04682240087

Mallappally: 04692682293

Ranni: 04735227442

Thiruvalla: 04692601303

In case affected people are unable to contact the control room or the number returns a busy message, they can seek help from the police on these numbers:

District police chief - 9497996983

Dy SP [Admn.] - 9497990028

DPO - 04682222630

Manager - 9497965289

AA - 9497965328

Dy SP SB - 9497990030

Dy SP DCRB - 9497990031

Dy SP Narcotic Cell - 9497990032

Dy SP Crime Dett. - 9497990029

CI Vanitha Cell - 9497987057

Crime Stopper - 04682327914

AC AR - 9497990259

AR Camp - 04682223036

Dy SP Pathanamthitta - 9497990033

CI Pathanamthitta - 9497987046

Pathanamthitta PS - 9497980250

Malayalappuzha PS - 9497980253

Police Control Room - 9497980251

Traffic Pathanamthitta - 9497980259

CI Kozhencherry - 9497987047

Aranmula PS - 9497980226

Koipuram PS - 9497980232

CI Chittar - 9497987048

Chittar PS - 9497980228

Moozhiyar PS - 9497980235

CI Pampa PS - 9497987049

Pampa PS - 9497980229

Dy SP Adoor - 9497990034

CI Adoor - 9497987050

Adoor PS - 9497980247

Adoor Traffic - 9497980256

Enath PS - 9497980246

CI Pandalam - 9497987051

Pandalam PS - 9497980236

Kodumon PS - 9497980231

CI Konni - 9497987052

Konni PS - 9497980233

Koodal PS - 9497980234

Thannithodu PS - 9497980241

Dy SP Thiruvalla - 9497990035

CI Thiruvalla - 9497987053

Thiruvalla PS - 9497980242

Thiruvalla Traffic - 9497980260

Pulikeezhu PS - 9497980240

CI Mallappally - 9497987054

Keezhvaipur PS - 9497980230

Perumpetty PS - 9497980238

CI Ranni - 9497987055

Ranni PS - 9497980255

CI Vadasserikara - 9497987056

Vechoochira PS - 9497980245

Perinad PS - 9497980239

Vanitha Help Line - 9447994707

Sannidhanam P S – 04735202014

Helpline numbers: Kerala State Disaster Management Authority - 94465 68222

24-hour control rooms in Malappuram district

Disaster management call, Malappuram Collectorate- 04832 736320.

Nilambur Taluk- 04931 221471

Konmdotty Taluk - 04832 713311

Ernad Taluk - 04832 766121

Tirur Taluk - 04942 422238

Ponnani Taluk - 04942 666038

Perinthalmanna Taluk - 04933 227230

Thirurangadi Taluk - 04942 461055

Kozikode district

Collectorate - 0495-2371002

Kozhikode - 0495-2372966

Thamerassery - 0495-2223088

Koyilandy -0496-2620235

Vadakara -0496-2522361

126 relief camps opened in 43 villages in Kozhikode

Total number of people displaced- 8788

Total number of families displaced- 2751

Emergency relief numbers

Helpline for availing boats for rescue: 8547616013

Helpline for emergency help for marooned people and Isolated caller system: 9447292984, 8281527151

Helpline for vehicle support: 9446841194, 8113900224

Helpline for essential supplies to relief camps: 9446477818,9745743545

Helpline for ambulance and medical management: 8281863442

Helpline for drinking water supply: 8089428478, 9544244428,9400501691

Helpline for cutting down trees posing danger: 9496268149

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News Network
April 12,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday appealed to the Central government to announce the rent rebate scheme for the benefit of tenants in the wake of economic activities coming to a grinding halt due to COVID-19 related lockdown.

In a series of tweets, Kumaraswamy said people are facing difficulty in paying rent as usual and hence the rent rebate scheme should be initiated.

"Many countries have already announced rent rebate scheme for tenants during COVID19 emergency. It is surprising that Indian Govt has not announced any such relief even to residential tenants. I urge the PM to immediately come to the rescue of everyone living in rented housing," Kumaraswamy tweeted.

He said a considerable workforce and students in metropolitan cities live in hostels and rented houses.

As all economic activity has come to a grinding halt, it is very difficult for them to pay the rent as usual.

The Prime Minister must announce rent rebate scheme, he added.

Highlighting the plight of the tenants, Kumaraswamy said, "If the landlords insist on rent, the tenants cannot even go searching for new accommodation due to the emergency. Hence the government intervention is essential. The PM must announce a comprehensive national rent rebate scheme for COVID-19 emergency."

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News Network
February 16,2020

Udupi, Feb 16: Nine people were killed after a private bus collided with a large roadside boulder in Udupi district in Karnataka on Saturday, the police said. The accident took place on Saturday evening, at around 5.45 pm, on the Mulnur Ghat at Abbas Kattingeri in Mala village, while the bus was on its way to Mangaluru from Sringeri, reported the news channel.

The bus, which was reportedly carrying around 35 passengers, was trying to manoeuvre a turn while travelling on a ghat road when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle hit a massive boulder and the impact caused seven people to die on the spot. Two others passed away while they were on the way to the hospital.

The deceased passengers have been identified as Radha Ravi, Yogendra, Preetham Gowda, Basavaraju, Angana, Sharul and Ranjitha. The cleaner of the bus was also killed in the accident.

According to reports, the passengers in the bus were mostly in their early 20s and were employees of Vital Records Private Limited near JCK Industrial Park. Century Vital Records is a data security company which works in the Hebbal Industrial Mysuru. The group was visiting Udupi, Hornadu and Kudremukh.

While some of the injured persons were rushed to Manipal hospital, others were taken to the Karkala city government hospital, police said.

The police have said that rash and negligent driving by the driver is likely to have caused the accident. A case has been registered at the Karkala Rural Police Station, the police said.

Last month, three persons were killed and four others were injured after a fatal collision between a van and a bus near Bengaluru. Both the vehicles caught fire after the impact, but while passengers of the bus, travelling from Bengaluru to Shivamogga, managed to escape, the three passengers who were trapped in the van could not escape and were charred to death.

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May 18,2020

Bengaluru, May 18: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Mallikarjuna Kharge on Monday slammed the State Government’s decision to appoint administrative committees to Panchayats, which completes their five-year term, shortly.

Speaking to media persons, the Congress leader described the State Government’s decision on appointing committees as a ‘death knell ‘ to the basic characters of the Panchayat bodies, which were elected on a non-party basis.

Strongly recommending the BJP-led government to desist from its decision, Kharge urged Chief minister B S Yediyurappa to extend the term of the elected bodies of the Panchayats by six months.

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