Nearly 500 people were killed around Kerala in 2018 during the worst flooding to hit the state in almost a century. India’s worst landslide in recent decades was in 1998, when rockfalls ...

The atlas, which covered major events from the past like the Kedarnath and Kerala disasters, and the Sikkim earthquake, had ranked 147 districts based on landslide exposure and socio-economic factors.

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has directed the Union government and the NDMA to check whether the Disaster Management Act ...

At least 572 milimetres (22.5 inches) of rain fell in the two days leading up to the landslide, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said in a statement. Kerala's disaster agency said more rain ...