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CMA CGM says its ship lost 44 containers in tough weather
“No injury to the crew has been reported, no pollution, no strong...
Flooding In Northern Bangladesh displaces 40,000 people
“Heavy rains in the Indian upstream region mean that the suffering...
Guj govt approves project to provide additional 10 lakh acre feet of Narmada floodwaters to arid Kutch
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has given an in-principle nod to various works worth Rs 3,475 crore to be carried out under this project, an official release said, adding the Water Resources department has been directed to start the works at the earliest.
50 dead, 49 injured in Philippine military’s worst air disaster
A video taken by troops showed the aircraft landing in clear weather then vanishing beyond the airport. It vanished, it vanished, one soldier exclaims. Dark gray smoke later billowed from the crash site in a wooded area as the troops, yell, It fell, it fell and let off curses in horror.
50 pc applications for cyclone Yaas relief in Bengal rejected as ‘bogus’: Official
According to a state government notification, someone whose agricultural land has suffered damaged by Yaas would get anything between Rs 1,000 and Rs 25,000.
Any affected farmer cultivating betel leaf and a person who lost his cattle in the calamity are entitled to a compensation of Rs 5,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively.
The notification further said that the state would pay a compensation of Rs 5,000 for partially damaged mudhouses and Rs 20,000 for fully damaged ones.
Picking up speed, tropical Storm Elsa moves towards south-central Cuba
Elsa had arrived earlier in the day in eastern Cuba, whipping palms with strong winds and bringing a steady downpour along with parts of the southern coast. Miami-based NHC said data from an aircraft indicated maximum sustained winds were near 65 miles per hour (100 km per hour) with higher gusts. It had downgraded Elsa from a hurricane on Saturday.
NGT directs Jindal Saw Ltd to pay Rs 4 cr compensation for damaging houses by illegal blasting
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) said the company must take precautions in the future and blasting must be scientific so that it does not cause damage to the properties of people. These will be treated as conditions for mining and blasting, apart from the laid down safeguards, it said.
Study indicates association of cloud bursts with forest fires
The study led by Alok Sagar Gautam from HNB Garhwal University and co-authored by S N Tripathi from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and Abhishek Joshi, Karan Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, R C Ramola from HNB Garhwal University can help improve the understanding of the complex mechanism of cloud burst, weather prediction and climate change condition over this region of Himalayas, the DST said.
Heatwave scorches north India; flash floods render many homeless in Tripura
The northeastern state is being battered by torrential rains for the last 48 hours and besides power and road infrastructure, crops have also been damaged. Though there was some respite for the national capital, temperatures in Punjab and Haryana were recorded above 40 degrees Celsius. Churu in Rajasthan sizzled at 43.6 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while it was 43.5 degrees Celsius in Haryana’s Gurgaon, which falls in the Delhi-National Capital Region.
Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting
“These wet extremes have basically been ignored in this field and we’re showing that researchers need to rethink it when designing schemes for future carbon accounting,” said senior study author Alexandra Konings, an assistant professor of Earth system science in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth). “Specific regions might be much more important for flood impacts than previously thought.”
SC directs NDMA to issue norms for financial help to kin of Covid victims
A special bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah said that the court cannot direct the Centre to fix a particular amount of financial help but the government can fix the minimum standard of amount to be paid as ex-gratia to family members of those who lost their lives due to COVID-19 while keeping various aspects in mind.
The top court asked the Centre to consider formulating an insurance scheme for cremation workers as proposed by the Finance Commission.
It also directs the authorities to issue appropriate guidelines for simplification of process of issuance of death certificates for Covid fatalities.
On climate change frontline, indigenous provide pointers to save planet
After an analysis of the growing threats confronting the communities and their sustainable ways of life, the authors of the report maintained that indigenous peoples worldwide play a vital role in countering global threats such as the destruction of nature, climate change, biodiversity loss and the risk of future pandemics.