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Assam flood situation deteriorates, 16.50 lakh people affected in 29 districts
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Cyclone Tauktae: Guj announces Rs 105 cr relief for fishermen
As part of the package, the state government would pay a collective amount of Rs 25 crore to the affected fishermen to compensate the damage caused to over 1,000 small and large sized boats.
For a fully damaged small sized boat, the government would pay 50 per cent of the boat value or Rs 75,000, whichever is less, the release said.
Burnt-out container ship sinks in sea; Sri Lankan Navy bracing for possible oil spill
The resultant environment and marine ecological pollution is regarded as the worst the island had seen. The ship’s cargo, comprising chemicals and nitric acid, were termed hazardous to the marine ecology.
At least 8 containers had fallen in the sea when it was anchored and went up in flames some 9 nautical miles off the Colombo port.
Maha: Over Rs 348 cr paid to cyclone Nisarga-hit in Raigad
Over two lakh houses were damaged in the cyclone last year for which a compensation of more than Rs 226 crore was paid, it said.
Disaster feared as chemical cargo ship sinks off Sri Lanka
The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics, was anchored off the island’s west coast when a fire erupted on May 20. Authorities have been battling the blaze since then, as flaming containers laden with chemicals have fallen from the ship’s deck, the navy said last month.
Miners still trapped in Meghalaya coal mine, rain hampers rescue efforts
The district administration has identified five miners four from Assam and one from Tripura who were trapped at the coal pit in the remote Umpleng area of Sutnga Elaka since Sunday when a dynamite blast had led to the flooding of the coal mine.
Environmental activist Agnes Kharshiing said, people will not speak out ” as they are under pressure from the coal mafia which does not want the true extent of the tragedy to be made public”.
`Vax policy ‘arbitrary and irrational” says SC, directs Centre to place on record documents, file notings on COVID vaccination policy
The top court also asked the Centre to specify the steps being taken by it to ensure drug availability for mucormycosis or black fungus.
Odisha pegs loss due to cyclone Yaas at Rs 610 crore
While the loss to the government properties was estimated to be Rs 520 crore, the calamity damaged private properties worth Rs 90 crore.
2.21 lakh hectare of crops damaged in Cyclone Yaas in Bengal, says Mamata
”Around 2.21 lakh hectare of crops and 71,560 hectare of horticulture have been damaged in West Bengal by Cyclone Yaas. The state has incurred a total loss of more than Rs 20,000 crore,” she told reporters at the secretariat.
Banerjee on May 28 submitted a report to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the damages caused by the cyclone, and sought a Rs 20,000-crore package for redevelopment of the worst-affected areas.
PM reviews Cyclone Yaas damages, Odisha demands long term solutions
The Chief Minister sought both a disaster resilient power infrastructure and a permanent solution to protect the coastal region from storm surges which accompany cyclones, the SRC said adding that Odisha has a long coastline of about 480 kilometers of which above 200 km is vulnerable to tidal surge.
Mamata seeks Rs 20,000cr relief package for cyclone-ravaged,Huge swathes of farm land swamped in eastern India
Cyclone Yaas swept in from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, triggering storm surges that broke through embankments in West Bengal state, particularly hitting hard the ecologically sensitive Sundarbans delta that stretches into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Initial assessment by the West Bengal government showed that water had entered around 96,650 hectares of land that had standing crops, a state official said.