{"id":301471,"date":"2018-08-17T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301471"},"modified":"2018-08-17T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T06:53:10","slug":"pm-modi-to-visit-flood-affected-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-to-visit-flood-affected-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to visit flood affected Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi, on Friday evening, will leave for Kerala to review the flood situation in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHad a telephone conversation with Kerala CM Shri Pinarayi Vijayan just now. We discussed the flood situation across the state and reviewed rescue operations. Later this evening, I will be heading to Kerala to take stock of the unfortunate situation due to flooding,\u201d tweeted by PM Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301472 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala-696x420.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala-695x420.jpg 695w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Modi-kerala.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi had earlier on Thursday spoke to Kerala CM and discussed the flood situation in the state. He had also asked Defence Ministry to further step up the rescue and relief operations across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala is witnessing continuous rain since past few days, causing flood and landslides across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 90 people have lost their lives so far. Rescue operations are in full fledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of people have been evacuated and are living in the relief camps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi, on Friday evening, will leave for Kerala to review the flood situation in the state. \u201cHad a telephone conversation with Kerala CM Shri Pinarayi Vijayan just now. We discussed the flood situation across the state and reviewed rescue operations. Later this evening, I will be heading to Kerala to take stock of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[466,4192,316,1891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301473,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301471\/revisions\/301473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}