Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday (April 10, 2025) said that the Union government’s decision not to waive loans of people affected by the landslides in Wayanad in July ...

Neither the said authority nor the District Collectors of Idukki and Wayanad have filed the response in this regard, it stated. “We only express our displeasure in the way in which the ...

The landslides destroyed large tracts of three Wayanad villages Punchirimattom, Chooralmala and Mundakkai apart from some in Attamala when the disaster struck on July 30 last year.

The Union government told the Kerala High Court that the loans of people affected by the landslides in Wayanad in July last year would not be waived. Instead, they will be rescheduled or ...

The Kerala High Court on Thursday said that while the RBI cannot ask banks to waive the loans of Wayanad landslides victims, the Union government and the National Disaster Management Authority can ...

Kochi: Work on the township project to rehabilitate the Wayanad landslide victims began on Saturday at the Elston Estate near Kalpetta, which was taken over by the state govt. However, estate ...

Wayanad landslide victims have lost everything—homes, land, livelihoods. Yet, the government refuses to offer even a loan waiver. Instead, they get mere loan rescheduling and restructuring.

The bench pointed out that if the Kerala Bank had waived off the disaster victims' loans, after having an exposure of around Rs 5 crore, then the other banks, which have lesser exposure, can also ...

The Centre, in an affidavit, submitted that loans taken by the survivors of the landslides can be rescheduled or restructured in accordance with the RBI’s Master Directions on Natural Calamities.

On July 30, 2024, a series of landslides occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi in Wayanad district, Kerala. The tragedy - which wiped out entire ...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said that the Union government decision not to waive loans of people affected by the landslides in Wayanad in July last year was a ...

Kochi: The Wayanad landslides were categorised as one of the 151 unprecedented extreme weather events of 2024 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in its ‘State of the Climate 2024 ...