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The French navy has given up the idea of trying to deliver humanitarian aid directly to Myanmar and will instead divert its cargo to neighbouring Thailand, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The statement said the UN World Food Programme would take charge of the shipment and ensure it gets to victims of Cyclone Nargis that devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta earlier this month.
Hundreds of troops carrying explosives trekked through a quake-devastated area in southwest China on Sunday, attempting to reach a "quake lake" that threatens a secondary disaster. Concerned by a steep rise in the water level of a giant lake at Tangjiashan, authorities want to blast a hole in the barrier before it bursts and causes a flashflood. Thousands have been evacuated below the lake as a precaution. Also on Sunday, state television reported an 80-year-old partially paralysed man had been pulled alive from rubble, 266 hours after the 7.9 magnitude quake hit.
Although the panchayat elections have ended, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is still feeling the after-effects with delayed work projects. There has been a labour shortage since many workers went back to their homes to vote which has been delaying the dredging work being carried out by the civic body in collaboration with the state government. Officials felt they are fighting a losing battle to avoid water logging in the city during the monsoon.
It is very unfortunate that the Government of Assam has not yet been able to rehabilitate all the persons rendered homeless by the devastating floods last year despite making tall promises during the floods. The Government was to pay rehabilitation grant of Rs 25,000 each to the families whose houses were completely damaged in floods and Rs 10,000 each to those whose houses were partially damaged, but till date, most of the affected families have not received the rehabilitation grant and they are forced to make their own arrangements.
A glacier burst caused a second flooding in four days in Upper Hunza on Sunday, damaging orchards and villagers' property. The flooding suspended traffic on the Karakoram Highway. Last Thursday, the glacier's snout had blocked the regular flow of a river in Gulkhin village, causing a flood that disrupted life and communication in Gojal tehsil, some 145 kilometres north of Gilgit and close to the border with China. Traffic was resumed in the area on Friday after the Chinese engineers along with FWO personnel working on the KKH expansion project repaired the road.
Authorities fail to come to the rescue of farmers, orchardists THE recent hailstorms which hit major parts of Kashmir valley and the upper reaches of Jammu region and damaged the crops wherever sowing operations are nearing completion should send alarming signals in the corridors of power. But unfortunately, things do not appear to have moved anyone in the government despite the fact that the farming community has been crying loudly to take note of their losses. Heavy rains coupled with hailstorm was fourth in less than a
Due to the unabated erosion at the Matmara dyke in Dhakuakhana by the river Brahmaputra, about 80 families, who had been living there since 2007 had to leave their homes to other safe places. According to sources, a part of the Matmara dyke had already been submerged as the concrete embankments that were built to check the inflow of the flood waters had been destroyed.
A large tornado bounced through several northern Colorado towns on Thursday, killing at least one person, damaging or destroying dozens of homes and flipping over tractor-trailers and freight rail cars. Dazed residents retrieved what they could from their homes in Windsor, a town of 16,000 about 70 miles north of Denver that was hardest hit. Power crews removed downed lines and poles from streets and bulldozers cleared debris.
A large tornado bounced through several northern Colorado towns on Thursday, killing at least one person, damaging or destroying dozens of homes and flipping over tractor-trailers and freight rail cars. Dazed residents retrieved what they could from their homes in Windsor, a town of 16,000 about 70 miles north of Denver that was hardest hit. Power crews removed downed lines and poles from streets and bulldozers cleared debris.
Minister for Water Resource Bharat Chandra Narah has totally failed to solve the erosion and flood problems of Lakhimpur district as well as in the State because of his imprudent and reluctant attitude towards the long standing problems said Bandhuram Pawegam, president of Mishing Bane Khebang.
