Gandhi, who arrived in Thiruvanthapuram at around 10:30 this morning from abroad, visited relief camps in Chengannur and heard the woes of the people.
"Google.org and Googlers will contribute $1 million to the relief work in Kerala," Rajan Anandan, Vice President, Southeast Asia and India, said at the Google for India event.
According to a researcher at NASA, the deluge that killed over 300 people, could have been contained if the dams were opened is a systematic manner.
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Bollywood celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and others are doing their best to help the people in Kerala. Many other celebs have also arrived to help in the relief work.
Mahatma Gandhi, through a series of articles in his publications ‘Young India’ and ‘Navajivan’, had urged people of the country to generously contribute for the relief of the flood-hit’ Malabar’ (Kerala).
Randeep Hoda flew to Kerala to help Khalsa Aid in flood relief work. The picture of actor serving food is getting viral for all the right reasons.
The Serie A side expressed solidarity and also urged its fans to donate for the cause.
A user commented on Amitabh Bachchchan's recent social media post, “Kerala ko donation diya?”
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Training its guns on the Left-led state government, Leader of Opposition in Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala demanded a judicial probe into the circumstances that led to opening of shutters of 40-odd dams at a time in the state.
About 15 response teams of the border guarding force are also running shelters, food camps and medical assistance facilities or the affected people.
They said government has taken a considered decision to rely solely on domestic efforts to tide over the situation.
The central assistance of Rs 500 crore as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rs 100 crore announced by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for flood affected Kerala has been released to the government of Kerala today, an official spokesperson said.
With the flood water starting to recede, Kerala now faces a daunting task of rebuilding itself after the deluge which many described as worst the region has witnessed in nearly 100 years.
Acharya Balkrishna, who manages the Patanjali company, also tweeted to share the information about flood relief operations.
East Bengal's Kerala players are in a state of distress, panicky about the well being of their folks back home, who have been hit by worst ever flood in a century.
Help pours in from different parts of the world for flood-hit Kerala. Beside the Govt has asked industrialists, business organisations to help Kerala.
Prakash, who qualified for the final with a time of 1:58.12 seconds, said he spent sleepless night before his qualifying event as he was worried for his family.
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