Jerusalem: Drinking water in northeastern Israel has become turbid after deadly earthquakes hit parts of Syria and Turkey, local authorities said.
The Israeli Ministry of Health issued a statement instructing the residents of the city of Beit She’an and dozens of other localities in the area to boil drinking and cooking water, Xinhua news agency reported.
Israel’s Mekorot national water company explained that earthquake shock waves caused dirt to enter the water at drilling sites in the area.
Powerful earthquakes rocked southern Turkey and its neighbour Syria early Monday, killing at least 2,700 people.
The earthquakes were also strongly felt in Israel and Lebanon.
Medak MP Koth Prabhakar Reddy released the Kaleshwaram water into the Kudavelly stream.
Hyderabad: BRS’s Medak MP Koth Prabhakar Reddy released the Kaleshwaram water into the Kudavelly stream for irrigation on Friday.
Water gushed out after lifting the gates of the Kondapochamma Sagar canal at Kodakandla in Gajwel Mandal.
The step came following a request from local farmers that water in the Kudavelly scheme was receding. The water will be used until the harvest of the Yasangi paddy.
This is the third consecutive year that the state government had released irrigation water into the Kudavelly stream to meet the irrigation needs of the farmers living around.
The Medak MP, after the water release event, said “the chief minister, KCR has built the Kaleshwara Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) to put an end to the drinking and irrigation needs of the area.”
“The 38 check dams on 60-KM stretch on the stream in Gajwel, Thoguta, Mirudoddi and Dubbaka Mandals, will be filled to the brim,” said the MP.
The Medak MP has said that as many as 40,000 acres will receive water following the release.
Forest Development Corporation Chairman Vanteru Prathap Reddy, MLC Dr V Yadava Reddy and others were present.
Hyderabad: The Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project (KDWSP) phase-2 which is supplying fresh water will be disrupted as part of Strategic Road Development Program (SRDP) works on Saturday and Sunday.
These works will however be done without disturbing the construction of flyover which is going on at Bairamal Guda Junction. The water connection will be disrupted from Saturday 6 pm to Sunday 12 pm i.e 30 hours.
Areas which will be disrupted as part of Operation and Maintenance works:
Chennai: The Vengaivayal incident in which human excreta was found in an overhead water tank supplying drinking water to a Dalit colony in Vengaivayal, Pudukottai district has become a blot on the Tamil Nadu government.
Even after the incident was reported on December 21, the culprits have not been brought to book. The Dalit outfits including the Dalit political party, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) have taken out several protest marches against this act.
The Tamil Nadu police interrogated several people, but the Dalit outfits said that the police was acting in a partisan manner and that some people belonging to the Dalit communities were asked to own up to the act.
M. Ilamurugu, president of Ambedkar Makkal Iyyagam, a Dalit outfit, had visited the Vengavayil Dalit colony along with S. Subbiah, a retired IAS officer, and interacted with all the 32 Dalit families in the colony.
After the interaction, Illamurugu called for a CBI inquiry into the issue and said that they have lost hope in the state government’s agencies.
The VCK has demanded the demolition of the overhead water tank in which human excreta was found. VCK leader and Member of Parliament, Thol Thirumavalavan has in a statement said that the overhead tank was a symbol of insult to the Dalits and it should be demolished.
In several rural areas of Tamil Nadu, there is even a two tumbler system where Dalits are given tea and coffee in separate tumblers.
Mumbai: The prize money task seems to have taken an ugly turn as housemates go on a full revenge mode in the upcoming episode of the controversial reality show ‘Bigg Boss 16’.
In the earlier episode, Team B featuring Archana Gautam, Shalin Bhanot and Priyanka Choudhary, won the task after suffering an hour of torture by the mandali – Shiv Thakare, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia and Mc Stan.
In the upcoming episode, the roles will reverse and Team B will be seen torturing the Mandali. A promo shows that Archana will be throwing haldi and chilli mixed in water in Nimrit’s eyes retaliating to their move of putting powder in her face and eyes.
Nimrit is seen crying in pain as she said that her face and eyes are burning.
To which Archana says: “Haldi ka tilak toh lagane do. Humari bhi toh jal rahi thi.’
Archana’s teammates Priyanka and Shalin are seen participating in the task. They are seen splashing cold water on Mandali as they hold on to their spots to win the Rs 50 lakh prize money.
Hyderabad: Many places in Hyderabad will face 30-hour drinking water supply disruption as Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board (HMWSSB) is undertaking repair works.
As per the press release, the disruption will be witnessed on February 4 and 5 amid repair work of a 1600 mm dia pipeline in connection with Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project (KDWSP) Phase-2.
As part of the SRDP, the repair works will be carried out without hindering the construction of the flyover at the Bairamalguda junction.
From 6 am on February 4 to 12 noon on Sunday, there will be drinking water supply disruption in areas including Balapur, Mekalamandi, Marredpally, Tarnaka, Lalapet, Buddhanagar, Hasmathpet, Ferozguda and Bholakpur.
Hyderabad to face water supply disruption for second time in 10 days
This is the second time in 10 days. Earlier too, some parts of Hyderabad faced water supply disruption.
Earlier, HMWSSB in a press release, mentioned that on January 27, the drinking water supply will be disrupted in areas including Shastripuram, Bandlaguda, Bhojagutta, Allabanda, Madhuban, Durga Nagar, Budvel, Suleman Nagar, Golden Heights, 9 no, Kismatpur, Gandham Guda and Dharmasai.
The board had cited Mylar Dev Palli Phase-2 of Jalamandali as the reason.
MLA Gudem Mahipal Reddy lays the foundation stone for the reservoir work of HMWSSB on Tuesday
Hyderabad: In order to tackle drinking water problems, four massive reservoirs having a combined storage capacity of 90 lakh litres are being constructed under the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) in Ameenpur municipality.
Patancheru MLA Gudem Mahipal Reddy lay the foundation stone at Sri Krishna Brundavan Colony in Sangareddy on Tuesday. According to him, drinking water will be provided to 90% of households in the municipality area by summer.
Moreover, three other reservoirs built at PJR Colony, Lalabavi Colony and the hillock of Beeramguda are also nearly completed, he said adding it will supply 1.25 crore litres of water every day.
Top EU leaders are traveling to Ukraine this week, but they won’t be bringing promises that the war-torn country can join the bloc anytime soon.
Brussels is expected to pour cold water on Ukraine’s hopes that it could swiftly join the EU during a two-day summit in Kyiv, according to a draft statement set to be issued at the event and seen by POLITICO.
The statement makes no specific mention of the ambitious timeline Ukraine has set out, with the country’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, even telling POLITICO this week that he hopes to join within two years. Instead, the document offers only vague assurances about moving the process forward once all EU-mandated milestones are met.
“The EU will decide on further steps once all conditions specified in the Commission’s opinion are fully met,” the draft states. “Ukraine underlined its determination to meet the necessary requirements in order to start accession negotiations as soon as possible.”
The wording follows significant pushback from some EU countries about over-promising Ukraine on its EU membership prospects, a subject Kyiv asked to address at the summit, according to several EU diplomats and officials. Though EU national leaders will not be in attendance at Friday’s summit, officials at the European Council — which includes all 27 EU leaders — have been liaising with EU countries about the final communiqué.
EU leaders last June granted Ukraine formal candidate status in record time, but that move was much easier than rapidly moving Ukraine through the grueling negotiations required to align a candidate country with the EU’s byzantine systems, rules and regulations. That process typically takes years and years, and often stalls for long periods of time.
Still, EU countries have split over how quickly the bloc should try to move Ukraine through that accession process.
“There were clear tensions between Poland and the Baltic states on one hand and other EU countries on the language to EU accession,” said one EU official.
The official added that tensions between European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are playing into the debate as well.
“They are in a race of outbidding each other toward the Ukrainians,” the official said.
Still, while no breakthroughs are expected in EU accession talks, there is a strong will in Brussels to show solidarity with Ukraine on other issues.
“The mere fact that we’re holding a summit in a country at war” is itself significant, said a senior EU official ahead of the meeting.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen | Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
Indeed, a large gathering of senior EU leaders and commissioners are expected to make the trek to Kyiv this week for meetings with EU officials.
Progress is expected in certain areas — for example, an agreement on a visa-free regime for industrial goods; the suspension of customs duties on Ukrainian exports for another year; movement on Ukraine joining an EU payment scheme easing bank transfers in euros; and integrating Ukraine into the EU’s free mobile roaming area.
Also on the summit’s agenda will be Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace plan, the reconstruction challenge facing Ukraine, and food security issues, with the EU set to announce a new €25 million humanitarian aid package to address Russian mining in the country.
Another EU official said that the summit sends “a strong signal that we support a country that is a victim of aggression and we underline the right of Ukraine to have a just peace at the end of this war. Ukraine has been attacked, Ukraine has a right to self-defense which they’re exercising … and only this can be a basis for a just peace.”
Reform path
The document also stresses the need for “comprehensive and consistent implementation of judicial reforms” in line with the Venice Commission’s advice, citing, in particular, the need to reform Ukraine’s Constitutional Court.
Though Ukraine recently announced changes to the court, particularly on how judges are appointed, the Venice Commission — a prominent advisory body featuring constitutional law specialists — still has concerns about the powers and composition of the body that selects the court’s candidates.
Shmyhal told POLITICO this week that Ukraine will address these questions. Kyiv has been keen to signal it is clamping down on corruption amid concerns in Washington and Brussels.
“We are holding consultations with the European Commission to see that all issued conclusions may be incorporated into the text,” he said.
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Hamirpur: The number of people taken ill after allegedly consuming contaminated water in a dozen villages of Nadaun sub-division in Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur district rose to 535 on Sunday.
People from a dozen villages, including Banh, Jandgi Gujran, Jandali Rajputan, Panyala, Pathiyalu, Niyati, Rangas Chowki Haar, Thain and Sankar have been affected by the outbreak of water-borne diseases.
Rajeev Kumar, the head of Rangas panchayat, had earlier in the day said the number of people taken ill crossed 300.
Some patients have been referred to hospitals in Hamirpur.
Two to three people in every household have taken ill after consuming contaminated water provided by the Jal Shakti department, he added.
It is believed that the high amount of bacteria in the water is causing the illness, Kumar said. He attributed it to contamination of the pit from which the water is supplied.
Villagers said the water was supplied without being filtered from an under-construction tank, causing the outbreak.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who is also the MLA from Naudan, has directed the district administration and the Health department to take proper care of the patients and ensure no shortage of medicines and other items.
He has also sought a complete report from state- and district-level agencies.
Health department teams have reached the affected villages to provide treatment to the people under the direct supervision of Chief Medical Officer (Hamirpur) Dr RK Agnihotri.
Officials from the Jal Shakti department have swung into action. It has stopped water supply to the affected villages and sent samples for testing.
Bottled water is being distributed among the people after supply was stopped, said a junior engineer in the department.
Deputy Commissioner Debasweta Banik said essential medicines, ORS packets, chlorine tablets and other materials were delivered to the villages through doctors, health and Asha workers.
