+ , 9( ": + ": + : 30!3"45 -"..-/ 3-0#*4 %"-012 2(343 !(343($--343(43$ 63(!!323$( 37!75-86 2 $7252$36$4 43?5!43@ =$$4-5 4(3(%46 2O3!.((3( 4$-!4$! 54 -$!%$4 34$5 =34$2$,!>$=6$$ ;7 - 1-2.< 33& '< ;$ 3 $++ # # ( # ( 546' 4 & ' ) ,-. /0 * 1 $( 3637! global warming, Himalayan While climate change glaciers are melting twice as make the region vulnerable to ' 3637! he glacier burst which trig- fast since the start of the 21st earthquake and cloudburst, Tgered Chamoli tragedy century and have lot over a the environmentalists feel that he Army has deployed 600 leading to the damage to the vertical foot and a half of ice the government’s unstoppable Tmen, including engineers ' 34$5 Rishi Ganga Project down- each year. construction of hydel power and medical teams, as part of stream was waiting to happen “This melting of glaciers plants and other activities like the rescue efforts in Chamoli t least 125 people are miss- in the hydel plants dotted has created a potential threat roads were adding to the envi- flash flood in Uttrakhand on Aing with the number fragile mountainous region of of water supply for hundreds ronmental woes. Sunday. Three helicopters and expected to rise after an Uttarakhand, environmental- of millions of people in coun- BJP leader Uma Bharti specialised equipment were avalanche caused by glacier ists have said. tries including India,” said the has also expressed concerns also deployed at the mishap site. breach near Reni village in In fact, a 2019 study pub- researchers in their analysis, over the dam construction Two transport planes of Chamoli district resulted in lished in the journal Science spanning 40 years of satellite spree in the “ecologically sen- IAF to ferry NDRF troops and sudden rise in the water level Advances revealed that due to observations across India, sitive” region around the equipment are ready at in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rising temperatures because of China, Nepal and Bhutan. Dhauli Ganga river’s upstream. Hindon. Also 40 marine com- rivers on Sunday morning. mandos will be flown from The Rishiganga hydro Mumbai. power project and NTPC’s $ Special teams of scientists dam on Dhauliganga were also of the Defence Research and damaged in the disaster. 5 "! Development Organisation According to official sources, ! "#$ 5 !"#$% (DRDO) were airlifted to mon- the avalanche took place at + itoring avalanches and floods. about 10 am and soon after Rishiganga project site. About villages migrate seasonally. necessary help.” On being " The Indian Airforce has that the Government issued five kilometres downstream The CM said, “President asked about the damage assess- + $ ) 3637! the Manali-Leh and Manali- also kept several aircraft and alerts in all areas along the at the NTPC project under Ramnath Kovind called me ment and State’s requirements, + Beas Kund axis and the helicopters on the standby, Alaknanda and Ganga rivers construction in Tapovan more expressing concern about the the CM said at present the 4 + * fter a glacial break in the Udaipur-Killar-Chamba road while the Navy has flown spe- from Chamoli district down to than 100 persons had gone to disaster. main focus is on rescuing peo- + ATapovan-Reni area of was sent to the Ministry of cialist divers of the Indian Haridwar. work. Scores of the workers Prime Minister Narendra ple and saving lives. L+,"+-" Uttarakhand’s Chamoli dis- Home Affairs and National Navy to Uttrakhand. Chief Minister Trivendra were able to move away on Modi also phoned me twice, The State has all the nec- ! trict, the Defence Disaster Management At least, seven teams of Singh Rawat, along with senior hearing the shouts of alarm as expressing concern and assur- essary resources for rescue Geoinformatic Research Authority on Sunday. divers will help in locating officials, reached the affected the flood progressed. ing all the assistance required and medical treatment, aug- "! Establishments on Sunday Meanwhile, in a relief for the and rescuing missing people, area in the afternoon to assess Seven bodies had been by Uttarakhand. Union Home mented by the Centre in issued a fresh warning of an area hit by a glacier burst in officials said here on Sunday. the situation. Talking to medi- recovered till the evening. The Minister Amit Shah also called response to the disaster. When + avalanche in Jammu & Uttarakhand, India The three Army helicopters apersons after returning to flood damaged one bridge at twice to enquire about the sit- asked about the possible cause $ Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Meteorological Department on were carrying out reconnais- Dehradun, the CM said at the Reni and four suspension uation and assured all help. of the disaster, he said the cause !(2 "! + Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Sunday said no adverse weath- sance missions to assist the res- time when the disaster struck bridges. The road link to 17 vil- “Chief Ministers of Uttar will be ascertained later by + Sikkim in the next two days. er is expected over Chamoli, cue teams on ground to reach about 35 persons and two lages has been severed though Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat experts as now the focus is on The yellow warning issued for Tapovan and Joshimath on the exact spot to rescue strand- policemen were at the residents in seven out of these also called us and assured all saving lives. L +,"+,/0 HP’s Kullu, Lahaul and Spiti on February 7 and 8. ed people. Q R P "#$% & '% Q)R on ‘Heritage Bye-Laws for SJTMC entered into an agree- Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri, ment with the ASI on August R Odisha’. SJTA Chief 22, 1979. This agreement !! Administrator Krishan Kumar restricts and codifies duties " ! ' -$48!$4! ! wrote to the NMA, “Shree and responsibilities of ASI vis- $% Jagannath is the Aradhya a-vis Shree Mandira. The bare sserting that the agitation Devata of Odias and millions regarding of agreement indi- cine development to inoculate Aagainst the Centre’s farm of Hindus across India and the cates that importance of Shree State Government has acquired &"&' " 2 every citizen of India. The laws is a people’s movement ' 252$36$4 world. He is worshipped as Jagannath Temple as one of the lands and properties for Covid-19 inoculation process that will not fail, Bharatiya Brahmadaru at his Mula Pitha Dhams for Hindus all over the strengthening safety and secu- .3 % for people aged above 50 will Kisan Union leader Rakesh he proposed bylaws framed at Puri. The divinity and wor- world was given due consider- rity of the centuries-old shrine start in March, he said.“We are Tikait on Sunday said there will Tby the National ship of Shree Jagannath as the ation when management com- under the project of Shree !"( ' 3637! not dependent only on the two be no “ghar wapsi” till protest- Monuments Authority (NMA) Lord of Universe is as timeless mittee agreed to involve ASI in Jagannath Heritage Corridor vaccines as the country is ing farmers’ demands are met. prohibiting construction works and as infinite as the cosmos certain conservation works of (SJHC). ) he Centre has no immedi- working on seven more indige- Tikait lauded the role of around the Jagannath Temple itself. It is in this background ancient built structures,” the “This project (SJHC) will *+ " Tate plan to make the vac- nous vaccines. Simultaneously, “khap panchayats” (caste coun- in Puri have drawn sharp reac- of faith, religion and spiritual- SJTA chief’s letter stated. also provide pilgrims with facil- ( + cines available in the open we are also working on the cils) and their leaders in sup- tions from all quarters in ity for millions of Hindus that He wrote that a large num- ities such as drinking water, toi- , - market. The country has vac- development of more vaccines porting the farmers’ stir. Odisha. Puri BJD Lok Sabha any intervention by the author- ber of habitations (sahis), lets, cloak rooms and Queue + cinated nearly six million because India is a huge coun- Addressing a “Kisan member Pinaki Misra termed ities is to be looked at.” which are more than a millen- Management System. These *+ " healthcare and frontline work- try and we need more players Mahapanchayat” near here, it a ‘conspiracy’ by the Centre He said temple and all the nium, exist around the properties have been acquired ers so far. and research to reach out to Tikait said the Government to stop the ongoing beautifica- properties belonging to Lord Shreemandir. These habita- by State Government through # $ “Presently, Covid-19 vac- everyone,” he said. Three of the should rollback the contentious tion projects of the Jagannath Jagannath in land records stand tions are mainly of servitors’ negotiations and most of the # cines are being administered vaccines are in the trial phase, farm laws, frame a new legis- Temple as well as in the name of Shree Jagannath families, who have been ren- people have come forward to on an emergency basis, under two are in the pre-clinical lation to assure the continua- Bhubaneswar’s Lingaraj Mahaprabhu. To manage the dering services to Lords since contribute their lands and full observation and in a con- stage, one is in phase 1 and tion of the minimum support Temple. Taking to Twitter, he temple affairs, the servitors time immemorial. With impo- properties for the purpose of trolled manner. If the vac- another in phase 2, he said. price (MSP) for crops and said the notification on bylaws and all the properties of the sition of restrictions, they are this project. cines are released in the open “As on February 7, 2021, release the farmers arrested for the Puri temple proposing Lords, a Shree Jagannath likely to be severely adversely Any regulation which has market, there won’t be any con- till 8 am, total of 57.75 lakh recently.