Tag: Flood

UAE offer condolences to Prez of Rwanda over flood victims

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Abu Dhabi: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent a message of condolences to Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, over the deadly floods that recently hit the country. He also wished a speedy recovery to all the injured.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice-President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, also dispatched similar messages to the Rwandan President.
As per a report by Reuters, floods and landslides caused by heavy rains have killed at least 129 people in the African country.

Source: With inputs from ANI
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 7, 2023
Sri Lanka issues flood, lightning warnings for 12 districts

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Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Department of Meteorology on Saturday issued a warning of heavy floods for 12 out of a total of 25 districts in the South Asian country, where heavy rains were reported over the last few days.
The 12 districts are Puttalam, Kurunegala, Kandy, Gampaha, Kegalla, Nuwara Eliya, Colombo, Kalutara, Ratnapura, Galle, Matara and Hambantota.
The department said heavy showers of more than 100 mm will hit the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North-Western provinces and the Kandy and Nuwara Eliya districts, Xinhua news agency reported.

Heavy showers of about 75 mm are expected in the other above mentioned districts.
Meanwhile, the department also issued an advisory for severe lightning for 18 districts.
The public was asked to take necessary precautions against floods and lightning.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 30, 2023
No Alarming Flood Situation, No Need to Panic: CE I&FC

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SRINAGAR: As the Kashmir received incessant rainfall since yesterday, the authorities on Wednesday said that there is no alarming flood-like situation in the Valley and people need not to panic.
Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Naresh Kumar said that there is not an alarming situation in the Valley as of now.
“The alert level at Sangam is well below the danger mark and same is in Ram Munshi Bagh. There is no alarming flood like situation as of now and people also need not to panic,” he said.
He also said that the weather is likely to improve in the afternoon, so for now there is no need to panic.
Kashmir Valley witnessed incessant rainfall since yesterday, while the weatherman has predicted more rain showers as the day progresses.
An independent weatherman predicted that the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir will receive good amount of snow, while plains may get moderate to heavy rain.
He further said that more showers are expected till Friday, while maximum temperature will stay below normal by 4 to 13 Degree Celsius at most places. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 19, 2023
DDA conducts anti-encroachment drive in Yamuna flood plains, removes some ‘illegal’ structures

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New Delhi:The DDA on Monday conducted an anti-encroachment drive on a portion of the environmentally-sensitive Yamuna flood plains and “some illegal structures” were removed, officials said.
The drive near Barapullah area was carried out by the Delhi Development Authority according to the norms outlined by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), they said.
The structures were located on the Yamuna flood plain and as per NGT orders, no construction is permitted there, a senior official said.
Late June last year, the DDA had conducted an anti-encroachment drive on a portion of the environmentally-sensitive Yamuna Flood Zone and “20-30 illegal constructions” were removed. The drive was conduced near Sarai Kale Khan area.
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March 28, 2023
TikTok’s plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers

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Another person familiar with the plans noted that TikTok was paying for the cost of sending influencers to D.C. It was not clear which influencers would be making the trip.
“Lawmakers in Washington debating TikTok should hear firsthand from people whose lives would be directly affected by their decisions,” said TikTok spokesperson Jamal Brown. “We look forward to welcoming our creators to our nation’s capital, helping them make their voices heard, and continuing to drive meaningful impact in their lives and for their communities.”
The Information first reported the invitation to creators.
The influencer push will not be TikTok’s only attempt to sway government officials in Washington next week. The app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew is also slated to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
ByteDance has amassed an army of public relations and lobbying professionals in recent years to fend off threats to its business, which first began with efforts by the Trump administration to effectively ban the app. Although the Biden administration rescinded those executive orders, measures to ban the app have intensified among members of both parties in recent months. Recently, the White House offered its support for a bipartisan bill that could ban TikTok. The Justice Department is also reportedly investigating ByteDance for spying on American citizens, including journalists who have reported on the tech industry.
As the administration has mulled the app’s fate in the U.S, the company brought on the Biden-connected public relations and political consulting firm, SKDK. Among former SKDK employees who occupy the administration’s ranks are Anita Dunn, who was a founding partner of the firm and is now a senior advisor to Biden.
The political blowback for TikTok extends far beyond Washington. Just Thursday, the U.K. banned the app from government phones.
Brendan Bordelon contributed to this report.

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

March 17, 2023
Flood mitigation plan: Part of Phase-2 work worth Rs 340 Cr tendered out

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Srinagar, Feb 01: The project worth Rs 340 crore under phase-2 flood mitigation plan has been tendered out on which work is expected to start soon.
A top official of Irrigation and Flood Control department of Kashmir, wishing not to be named, told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that phase-1 of comprehensive flood mitigation plan has almost completed while work on phase 2 is expected to start soon.
“The main work in the phase 2 will be flood spill channel for re-sectioning so that if there will be more water coming, then it will go through these channels,” he said, adding that part of it is to work on Hokarsar.
He said that resectioning of the flood spill channel which includes taking channel width from 20-80 metre with constant slope from Padshahi Bagh to Wullar costing around Rs 239 crore has been tendered out and efforts are on to rope in competitive national agencies for dredging.
He added that the main purpose of the work that has been started at Hokarsar is to keep wetland wet so that migratory birds coming there can live without any hindrances, but that is also part of the phase- 2 of flood mitigation plan.
He said that the gate at the Wular has 80 m width while Chanell there is just 30 m wide which has to be taken to 80 m.
He said that crate projection and other works on 21 major tributaries of Jhelum have been tendered out as well under 13 Irrigation divisions of Kashmir on which work is also expected to start soon.

He said that as tendering is in the last stage and they expect to start the work soon
“With the completion of phase 1 the capacity of river Jhelum will go to 60,000 cusecs, which has been already taken to 40,000 in the phase 1.
He said that the deadline to complete the phase 2 is three years and hopefully it will be completed in three years time.
Notably, Flood Management Plan was divided into two phases, phase 1 was funded under the Prime Minister’s Development Package with a budget of Rs 399 crore, which included spot dredging as per requirement to increase the capacity of river Jhelum so as to minimize the damage if there will be floods again.
Soon after floods in 2014, the government of India had constituted a committee to suggest measures to prevent such calamities in the future.
The committee in its report had recommended several long term measures including additional supplementary flood spill channel, creation of storage facilities on tributaries of Jhelum, flood plain zoning and enhancing capacity of Wular Lake—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

February 1, 2023