IGI airport flooded; nightmare on swamped roads

July 21, 2013

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New Delhi, Jul 21: Incessant rain in the capital on Saturday claimed the life of a five-year-old boy in south Delhi’s Mehrauli area. It also proved to be a nightmare for motorists as massive traffic jams were reported on Saturday from all over of the city.

According to the police, Chirag was returning home from school when he fell into an open drain around 1:30 pm. “People saw the incident and dragged him out of the drain,” a police officer said.

He was admitted to AIIMS?trauma centre, where he was declared brought dead. A case under Section 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered with the Mehrauli police station.

Major arterial roads across the city witnessed bumper-to-bumper traffic due to waterlogging. Vehicles were forced to navigate through the flooded streets. Within an hour of the showers, there was chaos on almost all the arterial roads as traffic signals did not function properly and choked drains flooded the streets.

The rain also flooded the forecourt of the arrival area of IGI airport, causing inconvenience to passengers coming out of Terminal 3.

There was, however, no disruptions in other airport operations, as there was water logging only at the arrival area of the airport, officials said.Flight operations at the airport largely remained unaffected. A Malaysian Airline flight arriving here from Kuala Lumpur was diverted to Ahmedabad.

As the rain reduced visibility at the runway, four flights arriving here were asked to take a go-around.

A spokesperson from Delhi International Airport Limited, which operates and manages the airport, said despite heavy rain at the airport, all passenger facilities remain completely unaffected including the baggage belts.

“All flight operations are fully normal at the moment except one flight which was diverted and four flights had to go around for a few minutes,” he said.

Civic officials said there were reports of trees being uprooted in different colonies, disrupting power supply in some areas. Even metro commuters were affected as the water entered Saket and Malviya Nagar metro stations on the Jahangirpuri-Huda City Centre line. Metro officials restricted movement of commuters from these two stations and trains were not allowed to stop for two-three hours.

“The road outside the Saket metro station was completely submerged. I somehow managed to enter the station. But I remained stuck for half an hour as trains did not stop at the station. The power supply was perhaps disconnected as a precautionary measure. At the station, sale of tokens was stopped and smart cards became ineffective at exit and entry points,” said Sudhesh Lal, an IT professional. Some commuters claimed that they were stuck in different parts as even autorickshaws and radio cabs refused to ply on the flooded streets.

“Trains were was not allowed to stop at Malviya Nagar in the noon as water got collected on the platform and concourse area. Saket metro station was closed in the evening due to water-logging outside the station,” a metro spokesperson said.

Waterlogging was reported from ITO, Laxmi Nagar, Moti Bagh, Kashmere Gate, Minto Road, Munirka, Dwarka, Dhaula Kuan, Mathura Road, Mandi House, Karkardooma, Bhairon Marg, Filmistan, Rani Jhansi Road, Azad Market, Najafgarh Road, Dwarka link road and Najafgarh road among others.

“Dwarka link was submerged in water. I could navigate through the road as I was driving an SUV. I saw two-three compact cars which broke down on the stretch,” said Ashwani Kumar Singh, a resident of Uttam Nagar.

Even as the civic agencies blamed each other for the mess, the Delhi traffic police issued an advisory asking commuters to avoid some badly affected road. “Kindly avoid entire Mathura Road - Purana Quila Road as there is water-logging. Avoid Karkarduma metro station road, apart from ITO (A point,W point), Mandi House and Mathura Road as they are waterlogged,” traffic police posted on its Facebook page.

The national capital on Saturday received 123 mm precipitation, which brought the temperature down in the city by four degrees. The maximum and minimum temperatures hovered between 32 and 25 degrees Celsius.

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Agencies
July 13,2020

New Delhi, Jul 13: Top Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, are in touch with Sachin Pilot and are trying to placate him, a day after the Rajasthan Deputy CM declared open rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, sources said on Monday.

Pilot has claimed that the Ashok Gehlot government is in minority and that he has the support of over 30 MLAs in the 200-member Assembly.

According to sources, top Congress leaders have talked to Pilot and have asked him not to rebel against the chief minister. They also assured him that his grievances would be redressed at the party level.

For latest updates on Rajasthan political crisis, click here

Besides Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, other Congress leaders who are learnt to have spoken with Pilot are Ahmed Patel, former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal.

It was not immediately known what transpired during the discussions.

Sources said the leaders asked Pilot to attend a Congress Legislature Party meeting in Jaipur, but he has not given any assurance.

Pilot, who is in Delhi, has not been taking calls of many party leaders. AICC general secretary in-charge for Rajasthan Avinash Pande has said that Pilot has not been responding to calls and messages have been left with him.

Pilot has raised a banner of revolt against Gehlot after the special operations group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police sent a notice to him for appearing before it in the case involving "horse-trading" of MLAs in the state.

The SOG has registered an FIR in this regard and has also sent notices to the chief minister, chief whip of Congress and some ministers and MLAs.

Meanwhile, Congress has pulled out all the stops to save its government in Rajasthan and CM Gehlot has convened a meeting of the state legislature party.

Pilot, who is also the state Congress president, is miffed with Gehlot and has alleged that he was not being kept in the loop on key decisions.

The Congress Legislature Party meeting began about three hours later than scheduled, with ministers and MLAs flashed victory signs for the cameras.

The Congress said 109 MLAs have already expressed support for Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, rejecting the claim by Deputy Chief Minister and the party’s state unit president Sachin Pilot that the senior leader does not have the majority.

About 100 MLAs had walked into the chief minister’s residence by 12.30 pm, an hour before the meeting actually started.

But some MLAs considered close to Pilot had not arrived till then. 

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News Network
February 29,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 29: Kerala Excise department has organized a Tik-Tok competition as part of its drug addiction-free mission.

The contest will be on the effects of drug addiction on people and society. The winner goes will go home with an I-Pad as a prize.

The competition is being organised as part of the Department's intensive campaign titled "Tomorrow's Kerala, Drug and Addiction-free Kerala".

"Those taking part should post the video from their profile with the hashtag #vimukthikerala. Each contestant can post more than one video. They can challenge friends with #vimukthichallenge. The last date of receiving them is March 5," said the spokesperson of the Excise Department.

The number of likes a video gets, its theme and presentation will be the criteria on which the video will be judged.

"As soon as a video is posted on Tik-Tok, it should also be sent on the WhatsApp number 9072588222," added the spokesperson of the Excise Department.

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June 11,2020

New Delhi, Jun 11: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 8,102 and the number of cases climbed to 2,86,579 in the country after it registered the highest single-day spike of 357 fatalities and 9,996 cases till Thursday 8 AM, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The number of recoveries remained more than the active novel coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day.

The number of active cases stands at 1,37,448 while 1,41,028 people have recovered and one patient has migrated to another country, as per the data.   

"Thus, around 49.21 per cent patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.

Of the 357 new deaths reported till Thursday morning, 149 were in Maharashtra, 79 in Delhi, 34 in Gujarat, 20 in Uttar Pradesh, 19 in Tamil Nadu, 17 in West Bengal, eight in Telangana, seven each in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, four in Rajasthan, three each in Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka, two each in Kerala and Uttarakhand, one each in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh.

Out of the total 8,102 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,438 deaths followed by Gujarat with 1,347 deaths, Delhi with 984, Madhya Pradesh with 427, West Bengal with 432, Tamil Nadu with 326, Uttar Pradesh with 321, Rajasthan with 259 and Telangana with 156 deaths.

The death toll reached 78 in Andhra Pradesh, 69 in Karnataka and 55 in Punjab. Jammu and Kashmir has reported 51 fatalities due to the coronavirus disease, while 52 deaths have been reported from Haryana, 33 from Bihar, 18 from Kerala, 15 from Uttarakhand, nine from Odisha and eight from Jharkhand.

Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have registered six COVID-19 fatalities each, Chandigarh has five while Assam has recorded four deaths so far. Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh have reported one COVID-19 fatality each, according to the ministry's data.

More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the ministry's website stated.

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