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Rain fury claims 30 lives as fifth thunderstorm in a month batters Mumbai
Meanwhile, the flooding in the water purification complex at Bhandup affected the water supply in most parts of the metropolis, a BMC official said. The flooding has affected electrical equipment that controls the pumping and filtration processes there, one of the major sites of water supply to the country’s financial capital, following which the BMC asked citizens to boil water before drinking.
Facebook, others ‘killing people’ by carrying COVID misinformation, says Biden
US President’s comments came a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a threat to public health, and as US officials advised that deaths and serious illness from the virus are almost entirely preventable because of the vaccines.
Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters, They’re killing people.
The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said.
Flooding affects parts of Europe after heavy rainfall
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert described the images from regions hardest hit by flooding as “terrible”.
“Even though not every event, not every flooding or local incident, is related to climate change, many scientists tell us that the frequency, the intensity and the regularity with which this happens is a consequence of climate change,” Seibert said.
Innovative technologies required to douse Jharia coal fire: official
”The government is very much concerned about the safety of humans living in the coal-bearing areas in Jharia and Raniganj.
”The companys (Coal India’s) top priority should be to douse fire in Jharia by introducing new technologies,” said Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal (MoC), Vinod Kumar Tiwari here as per a statement from CCL.
Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line
The Secretary-General reminded that the climate impacts we are seeing today – currently at 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels – give the world a glimpse of what lies ahead: prolonged droughts, extreme and intensified weather events and ‘horrific flooding’.
“Science has long warned that we need to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. Beyond that, we risk calamity… Limiting global temperature rise is a matter of survival for climate vulnerable countries”, he emphasized.
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.