SDRF rescues 15 people struck in flood in Bhandara

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July 14, 2022

Amid the ongoing rains tormenting various regions, the water of rivers overflowing, and roads waterlogged in the state of Maharashtra, the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) team rescued 15 people in Bhandara, informed the officials on Thursday.

The people were stuck in a temple due to a flood-like situation. “15 people were rescued by the SDRF team in Tumsar in the Bhandara district, today.

They were stuck in a temple due to a flood-like situation there,” said SDRF officials. Earlier, as the downpour continued and heavy rainfall pounded Mumbai and surrounding areas, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescued 10 workers of a private company from Palghar.

These workers were trapped in the river near Bahadoli village and were engaged in an infrastructure company.

“On receiving requisition from Tehsildar- Palghar, that 10 workers of GR infrastructure are trapped in Vaitarna river near village Bahadoli, Manor, NDRF team at Palghar moved for a rescue operation. The same team which was engaged in search and rescue at vasai collapsed site reached the incident site at 1900 hrs on 13/7/22.

NDRF kept constant vigil throughout the night and applied prudence in using all available resources to rescue trapped persons,” said NDRF officials. With arduous efforts, NDRF successfully rescued all 10 trapped workers from the site. Earlier on Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took note of the situation and said that he had directed the officials to keep emergency services on alert.

“I have directed the district officials to keep emergency services on alert, to ensure that no untoward incident occurs and assistance reaches the affected people in time,” said Shinde. The Regional Meteorological Center of Mumbai on Wednesday predicted that moderate to heavy rain is likely to occur in the city and suburbs for the next 24 hours.

“Moderate to heavy rain in city and suburbs. Possibility of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places. Occasional gusty winds reaching 45-55 kmph very likely,” the Regional Meteorological Center of Mumbai said.

11 people rescued after residential structure collapses in Pune

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July 14, 2022

Eleven people were rescued from three houses after an adjoining residential structure collapsed in Pune city on Thursday morning, fire brigade officials said. No one was injured in the incident, they said.

A wall of a ‘wada’, which did not have any occupants, crashed on an adjoining house in Kondhwa Budruk area, they said. Wada is an old cluster of houses with many rooms. Pune has been witnessing heavy rains since the last few days.

“The wada was lying vacant. One of its walls collapsed on an adjacent house and five people living there got trapped,” a fire brigade official said.

Another six people residing in two other houses in the vicinity also got stuck as their access is through the wada, he said.

The fire brigade personnel later evacuated 11 people, five from the house on which the wall collapsed and six from the other two houses, he said.
No one was injured, he added.

The surge in the Godavari is affecting Andhra Pradesh

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July 14, 2022

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On Thursday morning the flood started flowing at Sir Cotton Barrage at Andhra Pradesh which rose to 15.52 lakh cusecs. The flood was flowing at Rajamahendravaram in Andhra Pradesh. It is expected an increase by the evening which would cross 17 lakh cusecs in the Bhadrachalam which is the neighbour of Telangana state.

As per the report mentioned to PTI, the Special Chief Secretary (Revenue- Disaster management) G Sai Prasad stated “ The third warning signal would be issued at the Barrage by Thursday evening”.

The Water Resources Principal Secretary Shashi Bhushan Kumar has started monitoring the situation at the state disaster control room. Apart from that, they have also set up teams of NDRF and SDRF to control the situation of the flood. The Godavari surge would increased due to areas will be flooded in Andhra Pradesh.

In a report quoted to PTI Secretary G Sai Prasad said “seven teams of NDRF and four of SDRF have been positioned in Alluri Sitarama Raju, Konaseema, West and East Godavari districts and Eluru district for rescue and relief operations”.

There are several relief camps been setup in Alluri Sitarama Raju, Konaseema, and Eluru districts in which most people have space to live in those camps. Most of the road communications were closed to all the island villages.

Due to the flood in the low-lying areas people have become more vigilant and have started for necessary precautions and most of the officials have become alert in a statement mentioned to PTI officials stated “”People living in low-lying areas and other vulnerable places should remain vigilant as the flood is increasing. The official machinery has been put on alert to meet any eventuality,” State Disaster Management Authority Managing Director B R Ambedkar”

In Mizoram 105 people tested positive in COVID- 19 cases

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July 14, 2022

Mizoram’s COVID-19 tally rose to 2,30,229 on Thursday as 105 more people tested positive for the infection, 37 less than the previous day, a health official said “The single-day positivity rate dipped to 16.75 percent from 25.59 percent on the previous day as 627 samples were tested for COVID-19. The northeastern state’s coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 706 as no fresh fatality was recorded in the last 24 hours.

he said. Aizawl district registered the highest number of new cases at 84, followed by 11 in Saitual and six in Khawzawl. Mizoram now has 964 active cases, while 2,28,559 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 12 in the last 24 hours. The discharge rate was 99.27 percent. The state has thus far tested over 19.42 lakh samples for COVID-19.

50-year-old woman injured after a portion of the house collapsed

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July 14, 2022

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Due to heavy rain in the Thane district, a portion of a house collapsed and injured a 50-year-old woman on Thursday morning, civic officials said.

According to Thane Municipal corporation regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant, the incident happens around 5:30 am at Rashid Compound of Mumbra township.

He added, Part of her house wall crashed, fell and injured her. Local firefighters and RDMC rushed for rescue work.

She received injuries and was taken to the local hospital and admitted. Since last week heavy rain lashing the Thane district from the State capital

First monkeypox case suspected in Kerala, UAE traveller report send for test

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July 14, 2022

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A suspected case of monkeypox, the first in India, has been reported from Kerala, the state health minister said on Thursday.

A traveller who arrived in Kerala three days ago from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hospitalised after he displayed symptoms of monkeypox.

Samples from the traveller have been sent for testing to the National Institute of Virology in Pune, health minister Veena George said today adding that the case can be confirmed only after the results of the test are obtained.

According to World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe.

Monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, or with material contaminated with the virus. It is usually a self-limited disease with symptoms lasting from two to four weeks, WHO said.

Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding.

The clinical presentation of monkeypox resembles that of smallpox, a related orthopoxvirus infection which was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. It typically presents clinically with fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes and may lead to a range of medical complications.

Human monkeypox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a 9-month-old boy in a region where smallpox had been eliminated in 1968.

Since then, most cases have been reported from rural, rainforest regions of the Congo Basin, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and human cases have increasingly been reported from across central and west Africa, according to WHO.

In 2003, the first monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa was in the United States of America and was linked to contact with infected pet prairie dogs. These pets had been housed with Gambian pouched rats and dormice that had been imported into the country from Ghana.

This outbreak led to over 70 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. Monkeypox has also been reported in travellers from Nigeria to Israel in September 2018, to the United Kingdom in September 2018, December 2019, May 2021 and May 2022, to Singapore in May 2019, and to the United States of America in July and November 2021.

In May 2022, multiple cases of monkeypox were identified in several non-endemic countries.

Maha Congress party stated economic situation of India is related to Srilanka’s past

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July 13, 2022

The Maharashtra Congress on Wednesday claimed that the current economic situation in India is similar to what it was in Sri Lanka three years ago and if corrective steps are not taken by the Centre in time it may become explosive. The Congress accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government of not resolving the serious problems faced by the people and instead raking up religious and communal issues, and also alleged that the Modi dispensation was painting a wrong picture that inflation is under control.

“While inflation is on the rise, the BJP government is misleading the people by presenting a false picture before the country,” Congress’s state unit chief spokesman Atul Londhe said in a statement. The prices of essential commodities have skyrocketed in the last four-five years. In a city like Nagpur, an LPG gas cylinder, which would once cost Rs 410, has gone up to Rs 1,100; the price edible oil has gone up from Rs 70 to Rs 200 a litre, of CNG from Rs 36 to Rs 90 per kg, he said. The prices of petrol and diesel have crossed the Rs 100-mark a long ago. Vegetables are also turning costlier. Inflation is on the rise and the common man is being burdened under it, Londhe added.

The situation in India is similar to what it was in the crisis-hit Sri Lanka three years ago and if steps are not taken in time considering the gravity, it will not take long for the situation in the country to become explosive, he claimed. “But the government is playing with the numbers to paint a wrong picture that inflation is under control. Attempts are being made to show that inflation has come down by reducing some food grain figures. The government can show a false picture by playing with numbers, but in reality the situation is very different,” he said.

Today, India’s debt has risen to 92 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The government will have to repay a debt of USD 267 billion by next month. The government is not allowing these facts to come out in the public domain, he added. “The government is bringing religious issues to the fore to divert attention from the real and pressing issues. But it will cost us dearly. The Congress party is protesting against the Centre’s wrong policies and the government should address the basic issues of the people in a timely manner, otherwise serious consequences will have to be faced,” Londhe said. Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, is under the grip of an unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine, fuel and other essentials.

A cop hangs himself in Uttar Pradesh due to Depression

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July 13, 2022

In Uttar Pradesh a cop hangs himself in his residence at Subhash Nagar area. The incident was reported at Bareilly on Wednesday as he was going through depression. The deceased cop was identified Constable Virendra Pratap Singh who was posted traffic police in Moradabad.

As per the report, the police is still investigating the case of death and according to SSP Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj said to PTI “ Constable Virendra Pratap Singh, posted in the traffic police in Moradabad, hanged himself with his shirt in his house late on Tuesday night”.

In a report mentioned to PTI the SSP stated “Singh had a long-running dispute with his wife because of which he was in depression” and he also quoted to his family.

It is also said before this incident the Virendra Pratap Singh was drinking alcohol and the SSP also stated to PTI “That Singh’s wife has been living with her parents for almost last two years”.

The police also stated that the case has been registered and they have also filed an FIR and the police officer SSP has also stated as quoted to PTI “The post mortem of the body has been done”.

ED conducts raids at eight locations in 4 cities in the MCX fraud case

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July 13, 2022

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it carried out searches at eight locations in Sikkim, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai in the Sikkim MCX Fraud case.

The locations include various premises of Limited Liability Partners (LLPs) in Sikkim, which were controlled by brokers trading in MCX and NSE in Kolkata and Delhi.

A total amount of Rs 4.65 crore was frozen from the bank accounts of brokers that corresponded to the undue gain availed by such brokers by illegally availing Stamp Duty Exemption.

Further, the premises of various stockbrokers in Delhi and Mumbai, where many fake Sikkim-based traders were registered, were also searched.

Incriminating evidence relating to such traders was recovered. ED initiated a money-laundering investigation on the basis of the First Information Report registered on May 17 by the Sikkim Vigilance Police Station against unknown persons and companies based on a complaint filed by one resident of Gangtok, Sikkim.

It has been alleged in the FIR that the disproportionate data in MCX trading from Sikkim is highly doubtful and some Limited Liability Partners (LLP) companies and private individuals and traders from other states of India are doing high-frequency MCX trading either using the identity of Sikkim residents or using co-location of Sikkim illegitimately for taking undue advantage of the Income Tax and Stamp Duty exemption given to the people of Sikkim.

A man was killed by a group of Locals in Delhi due to an argument

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July 13, 2022

In a quarrel with some locals 23-year-old man was been killed by a group of locals in northeast Delhi at new Usmanpur. The incident took place on Monday after which the unconscious man was brought to the hospital where doctors declared him dead.

The police while investigating on this matter on Wednesday stated to PTI “ A man was killed by a group of locals in northeast Delhi’s New Usmanpur area following the heated argument”.

The 23-year-old man has been identified as Ashu and the police have also stated when they reported that the man had injuries on his head and legs, and was also found unconscious at the gate of a temple in Brahanpuri around 4 pm on Monday. The police took the man to the hospital where doctors declared him dead.

As per the report quoted to PTI A Senior Police officer has stated “A case has been registered under sections of Indian Penal Code 302 (murder), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender) and 34 (Common intention)”.

In a report police officer also mentioned to PTI “Preliminary inquiry has revealed that on June 9, Ashu had a quarrel with some locals during which he allegedly injured one of them with a sharp object. A case was registered at the New Usmanpur police station in this matter

A group of locals attacked Ashu the deceased again on the same day when he was unconscious and they fled from that area but these details were captured in the CCTV footage where the accused had been identified and police are about to nab them.