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JAMMU, Aug 26: Relentless heavy rain led to a landslide on the route to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop the Trikuta hill on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring 14, officials said. The pilgrimage to the famed shrine in Jammu and Kashmirs Reasi district was suspended when the landslide happened, officials said. Rescue operations are underway near the Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Adhkwari where the landslide hit around 3 pm, they said. The disaster struck at a [] The post F
TAIPEI, Aug 13: Typhoon Podul made landfall in Taiwan on Wednesday, where authorities closed schools and government offices as heavy rain threatened more damage to agriculture in the islands southeast. The storm hit Taitung county on the east coast shortly after noon, moving across the southern third of the island at about 36 kilometres per hour, at which rate it would head out to the Taiwan Strait and China by late afternoon, according to the Central Weather Administration. It was [] The post T