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No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 10!1"47 ()*)(* + 0(,$ 1 (,- ./ 2(343 !(343($--343(43$ 63(!!323$( 37!75-@6 2 $7252$36$4 43C5!43D A$$4-5 4(3(%46 2O3!.((3( 4$-!4$! 54 -$!%$4 34$5 A34$2$,!B$A6$$ ?7 - 2-6.< 11& '; ?$ 3 $++ #'( # ( 748' 4469 ! ! # %&' () $ ! * % !! ! !! $( 3637! global warming, Himalayan While climate change glaciers are melting twice as fast make the region vulnerable to ' 3637! he glacier burst which trig- since the start of the 21st cen- earthquake and cloudburst, Tgered Chamoli tragedy tury and have lot over a vertical the environmentalists feel that he Army has deployed 600 leading to the damage to the foot and a half of ice each the government’s unstoppable Tmen, including engineers ' 34$5 Rishi Ganga Project down- 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 frag- has created a potential threat of roads were adding to the envi- flash flood in Uttrakhand on Aing with the number ile mountainous region of water supply for hundreds of ronmental woes. Sunday. Three helicopters and expected to rise after an Uttarakhand, environmental- millions of people in countries BJP leader Uma Bharti has specialised equipment were avalanche caused by glacier ists have said. including India,” said the also expressed concerns over also deployed at the mishap site. breach near Reni village in In fact, a 2019 study pub- researchers in their analysis, the dam construction spree in Two transport planes of Chamoli district resulted in lished in the journal Science spanning 40 years of satellite the “ecologically sensitive” IAF to ferry NDRF troops and sudden rise in the water level Advances revealed that due to observations across India, region around the Dhauli equipment are ready at in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rising temperatures because of China, Nepal and Bhutan. 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 that Rishiganga project site. About villages migrate seasonally. necessary help.” " for HP’s Kullu, Lahaul and The Indian Airforce has the Government issued alerts five kilometres downstream at The CM said, “President On being asked about the + $ ) 3637! Spiti on the Manali-Leh and also kept several aircraft and in all areas along the the NTPC project under con- Ramnath Kovind called me damage assessment and State’s + Manali-Beas Kund axis and helicopters on the standby, Alaknanda and Ganga rivers struction in Tapovan more expressing concern about the requirements, the CM said at 4 + * fter a glacial break in the the Udaipur-Killar-Chamba while the Navy has flown spe- from Chamoli district down to than 100 persons had gone to disaster. Prime Minister present the main focus is on + ATapovan-Reni area of road was sent to the Ministry cialist divers of the Indian Haridwar. work. Scores of the workers Narendra Modi also phoned rescuing people and saving L+,"+-" Uttarakhand’s Chamoli dis- of Home Affairs and National Navy to Uttrakhand. At least, Chief Minister Trivendra were able to move away on me twice, expressing concern lives. The State has all the nec- ! trict, the Defence Disaster Management seven teams of divers will help Singh Rawat, along with senior hearing the shouts of alarm as and assuring all the assistance essary resources for rescue and Geoinformatic Research Authority on Sunday. in locating and rescuing miss- officials, reached the affected the flood progressed. required by Uttarakhand. medical treatment, augmented "! Establishments on Sunday Meanwhile, in a relief for ing people, officials said here area in the afternoon to assess Seven bodies had been Union Home Minister Amit by the Centre in response to the issued a fresh warning of an the area hit by a glacier burst on Sunday. the situation. Talking to medi- recovered till the evening. The Shah also called twice to disaster. When asked about + avalanche in Jammu & in Uttarakhand, the India The three Army helicopters apersons after returning to flood damaged one bridge at enquire about the situation the possible cause of the disas- $ Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Meteorological Department on were carrying out reconnais- Dehradun, the CM said at the Reni and four suspension and assured all help. ter, he said the cause will be !(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 ascertained later by experts as + Sikkim in the next two 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 now the focus is on saving days. 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 lives. L +,"+,/0 The yellow warning issued February 7 and 8. ed people. %% ! ' !! $$54 " $% he Yashodharman Nagar T(YD) police have booked citizen of India. unidentified miscreants who &"&' " + The Covid-19 inoculation set ablaze the garbage in which process for people aged above puppies were found burnt alive; ', - 50 will start in March, he said. accused were booked under “We are not dependent Prevention of Cruelty to !"( ' 3637! only on the two vaccines as the Animals Act country is working on seven A shocking incident came ) he Centre has no immediate more indigenous vaccines. into light in which puppies died *+ " Tplan to make the vaccines Simultaneously, we are also in fire and YD Nagar Police has ( + available in the open market. working on the development of received a complaint in this , - The country has vaccinated more vaccines because India is case and based on the complaint + nearly six million healthcare a huge country and we need a case was registered against *+ " and frontline workers so far. more players and research to unidentified miscreants. “Presently, Covid-19 vac- reach out to everyone,” he said. SHO Jitendra Pathak of # $ cines are being administered on Three of the vaccines are in the the police station told The # an emergency basis, under full trial phase, two are in the pre- Pioneer that the matter is being $%%& $./0 0 observation and in a controlled clinical stage, one is in phase 1 investigated. He said that no ++ manner. If the vaccines are and another in phase 2, he eye witnesses has been found to &1 released in the open market, said. confirm who set the fire, but 2 there won’t be any control over “As on February 7, 2021, they have registered a case * them. The decision will be till 8 am, total of 57.75 lakh against unknown person. This + " taken as the situation (57,75,322) beneficiaries have incident is reported at demands,” Union Health received the Covid-19 vaccine Diamond Colony of the Minister Harsh Vardhan said. under the countrywide vacci- city. 2 345 (' The Minister said the nation exercise. The cumulative A female dog gave birth to 101 -011 +111 country is developing seven vaccination coverage includes puppies in a pile of garbage. 2 + 8&98189 more Covid-19 vaccines and 53,04,546 healthcare workers The puppies were burnt alive ! :;;.<89 also working on further vaccine and 4,70,776 frontline workers,” due to fire in the garbage heap. % ./8:&; development to inoculate every said the Ministry. Continued on Page 3 ! " suffering from heart disease by special bus to Indore for treat- ment. In the first phase, seven children out of the children suf- fering from heart disease iden- tified in a survey by the ' %6$7!4 Women and Child Development Department have hief Minister Shivraj Singh been sent to Indore. Their CChouhan flagged off the operations will cost between Rs vehicles of the three schemes 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh. State gov- during his stay in Gwalior on ernment will bear the expen- Sunday. Four buses under the diture of the treatment of chil- Smart City Scheme, dren. Deendayal-mobile Rasoi vehi- On this occasion, Rajya cle and National Child Safety Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, Programme includes bus tak- MP Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar, ing 7 children to Indore for Energy Minister Pradyuman treatment. Singh Tomar, Panchayat and Chouhan flagged off the Rural Development Minister Deendayal Mobile Rasoi vehi- Mahendra Singh Sisodia, cle providing food to the des- -" - ! ! ." Minister of Micro, Small and titute and helpless people. !-" ! - / ( Medium Enterprises Deendayal Mobile Rasoi vehi- -" ! " Omprakash Sakhlecha, cle will supply food packets at Minister of State for major places in the city from 10 Horticulture,