EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Weather Watch Elephantine conflict swells in the east Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Bengal, Odisha and Assam account for about half the fatalities in man­elephant conflict, data show Shiv Sahay Singh building up the knowledge Ambala bus stand Kolkata base on elephant ecology”. renamed after Sushma Three States in the eastern Among the reasons for un­ AMBALA The Ambala city bus stand and northeastern parts of natural deaths of elephants, was renamed after late the country — West Bengal, electrocution is at the top of External Affairs Minister and Odisha and Assam — account the list, accounting for 68% BJP veteran Sushma Swaraj for about half of both human of elephant deaths in the on Saturday. She was born in and elephant deaths in the country. Assam accounted Ambala Cantonment and was overall human­elephant con­ for 66 electrocution deaths, elected as MLA twice from flict in the country, accord­ followed by Odisha with 57 there. State Transport ing to the latest data provid­ deaths and Bengal with 39 fa­ Minister Mool Chand Sharma ed by the Ministry of talities. said the bus stand had been Environment, Forest and Cli­ The second most com­ constructed at a cost of ₹18 mate Change. mon cause for unnatural crore. PTI Over the past five years, deaths of elephants is train Wuhan evacuees likely from 2014­15 to 2018­19, 2,361 accidents. Between 2014­15 Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) to be released soon human deaths were record­ to 2018­19, 77 deaths were Forecast for Sunday: Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning NEW DELHI ed in elephant attacks across due to train accidents. very likely at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh. Isolated to A total of 406 people, who the country, of which 1,132 ral deaths of elephants response to a question by had recorded 5,719 ele­ The data assumes signifi­ scattered rainfall activity likely over parts of northeast India dur­ were housed at a quarantine (48%) fatalities were from (mainly due to poaching, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Ma­ phants, Odisha 1,976 and cance when India is moving these three States, as per the train accidents, electrocu­ joj Kumar Jha. West Bengal 642. to include Asian Elephants in ing next five days. facility of the Indo­Tibetan city rain max min city rain max min Border Police after being data tabled in the Rajya Sab­ tion and poisoning), the Interestingly, these three the list of species that merit Agartala................—....28.0....15.0 Kozhikode....................—....35.0....25.0 brought back from China due ha. West Bengal had the country recorded 510 deaths States are home to just about Elephants electrocuted heightened conservation at Ahmedabad...........—....31.0....14.0 Kurnool .......................—....35.0....19.0 to the COVID­19 outbreak highest number of human in the same period (2014­15 31% of the total population of Raman Sukumar, an ele­ the 13th Conference of Par­ Aizawl...................—....18.0......9.0 Lucknow......................—....25.0....10.0 Allahabad..............—....28.0....10.0 Madurai.......................—....36.0....22.0 there, may be released next casualties: 403, followed by to 2018­19). Of these, 259 all elephants in India. The phant expert and ecologist ties on the Conservation of Bengaluru .............—....32.0....18.0 Mangaluru ...................—....34.0....24.0 week if their final samples Odisha with 397, Jharkhand (53%) occurred in these last synchronised elephant from the Indian Institute of Migratory Species of Wild Bhopal ..................—....28.0....12.0 Mumbai .......................—....33.0....21.0 turn out to be negative, said with 349, and Assam with three States alone. The fi­ survey in the country in 2017 Science, Bengaluru, said that Animals scheduled to be Bhubaneswar.........—....35.0....17.0 Mysuru ........................—....32.0....20.0 a senior Home Ministry Chandigarh ...........—....24.0....13.0 New Delhi ...................—....26.0....11.0 332 deaths. gures were tabled in the Ra­ had given a figure of 27,312 these States had been a “ne­ held at Gandhinagar later Chennai ................—....34.0....21.0 Patna ..........................—....26.0....13.0 official on Saturday. The When it comes to unnatu­ jya Sabha on February 10, in elephants, of which Assam glected region in terms of this month. Coimbatore ...........—....35.0....21.0 Port Blair.....................—....30.0....21.0 reports are expected to be Dehradun..............—....27.0......9.0 Puducherry ..................—....32.0....21.0 received by Monday. PTI Gangtok................—....12.0......7.0 Pune............................—....32.0....15.0 Goa.......................—....34.0....22.0 Raipur .........................—....31.0....17.0 Guwahati ..............—....26.0....12.0 Ranchi.........................—....28.0....13.0 Rebels attack former Hubballi................—....33.0....21.0 Shillong.......................—....15.0......6.0 MPP chief’s house 4­year­old raped by FCI agrees to procure Hyderabad ............—....33.0....17.0 Shimla.........................—....21.0......8.0 Imphal ..................—....23.0......8.0 Srinagar.......................—....13.0......2.0 IMPHAL Jaipur ...................—....27.0....12.0 Thiruvananthapuram.........—....33.0....25.0 Oinam Jogindro, former Kochi ....................—....33.0....25.0 Tiruchi.........................—....35.0....21.0 president of the Manipur Kohima .................—....16.0......7.0 Vijayawada ..................—....35.0....19.0 People’s Party (MPP) and his school bus driver paddy from Puducherry Kolkata .................—....30.0....17.0 Visakhapatnam .............—....31.0....22.0 family members escaped (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) unhurt on Saturday as She was on her way back home suspected rebels lobbed a The move will benefit about 25,000 farmers Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday hand grenade at his house at SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT registered at Panchkula’s CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE CHANDIGARH * Wangoi in Imphal West women police station. RAJESH B. NAIR 2019­20. Ahmedabad..... 52 .74 31 ..130 .118 .... PUDUCHERRY Bengaluru ....... ..9 .81 23 ..171 .....— ....* In observation made at 4.00 district, said police sources. The Haryana police have re­ “The incident happened Power Minister R. Kama­ * p.m., Siliguri, West Bengal Chennai .......... ..— .31 37 ..146 .....— .... recorded an overall air Bomb experts took the gistered a case of an alleged in the school bus when the In a major relief to around lakannan, who also holds Delhi .............. 34 .69 32 ..246 .212 ....* quality index (AQI) score of explosive away for a rape of a four­year­old girl child was returning from the 25,000 farmers, the Food the Agriculture portfolio, Hyderabad ...... 33 .83 32 ..204 .....— ....* 342 indicating a severe level Kolkata........... 50 128 16 ..223 .246 ....* of pollution. In contrast, controlled blast in a field. by the driver in the school school as per the complaint. Corporation of India has said on Saturday that around * Maihar, Madhya Pradesh Lucknow......... ..7 .39 .— ..255 .....— .... recorded a healthy AQI score bus while she was on her On Friday, after returning agreed to procure paddy 20,000 farmers in Pudu­ Mumbai .......... 14 .70 49 ..142 .176 ....* of 57. Woman slips while trying way back from the school in from her school, the victim from Puducherry and Karai­ cherry and another 4,600 Pune............... 84 .40 82 ..120 .101 ....* Visakhapatnam 10 .68 51 ..148 .135 ....* to board train, saved Himachal Pradesh’s Baddi narrated to her aunt that the kal regions shortly. farmers in Karaikal would BHUBANESWAR town. driver had sexually assault­ In a communication to benefit from the move. Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) An RPF constable, Subrat The police said she stu­ ed her on the bus,” said the Chairman and Managing On an average per year, Kumar Maharana, saved the SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, died at a private school in Panchkula ACP Noopur Director of FCI and Secre­ farmers produce around making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air life of a passenger Nibedita Baddi and lived with her Bishnoi. tary, Department of Food, Farmers in Puducherry 99,000 metric tonnes of particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues Sahoo, who slipped while and monuments. trying to board the Puri­ maternal aunt at Madawala “So far the accused has Civil Supplies and Consumer produce around 99,000 paddy in the Union Territo­ tonnes of paddy per year. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to