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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.
About 1500 houses, crops on 75 hectare area damaged;18 injured &10L impacted by Cyclone Yaas in J’khand
”Initial assessment of the damage suggests collapse of 76 houses while partial damage was caused to 1,432 houses due to incessant rains in the state besides crop destruction on 75 hectares of land,” State Disaster Management Secretary Amitabh Kaushal told PTI.
Harrowing tale of lapses in India sea disaster in ONGC’s barge collapse
State-run ONGC, the country’s biggest explorer, and its billionaire-owned offshore engineering contractor are under growing pressure to explain their roles in one of the world’s worst offshore oilfield disasters in recent memory.
Interviews with survivors, rescue officials and executives from ONGC suggest that a serious misreading of the weather, as well as human error and safety lapses led to the tragedy.
World now likely to hit watershed 1.5 °C rise in next five years, warns UN weather agency
“These are more than just statistics”, said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. “Increasing temperatures mean more melting ice, higher sea levels, more heatwaves and other extreme weather, and greater impacts on food security, health, the environment and sustainable development,” he said.