Every sector is being expedited in the northeast to open up numerous opportunities of Growth for the people.
The Central minister said that ASSAM RIFLES has an unparalleled heritage of gallantry since 1835 and holds a distinction of having been bestowed the most number of gallantry Awards.
Over 500 embankment breaches by the ravaging annualfloodswere recorded inAssamin the past one decade (2013-2022), according toAssam State Disaster Management Authority(ASDMA). The state saw the highest breaches in 2015 when 283 breaches were recorded.
According to data provided by the ASDMA, a total of 40 breaches were recorded last year and consequently over 88 lakh Population across all the existing 35 districts (before the re-merged four districts with their parent districts in December last year) in the state.
According to the study, parts of the State are yet to achieve the recommended daily drinking water target of 40 liter per capita per day (LPCD). While about 17 districts in the State have issues with saline groundwater, in many districts, the concentration of fluoride, nitrate, iron and chromium (hexavalent) are found to be above the permissible limits. Besides, there is huge wastage of water in the domestic sector. Due to a lack of adequate and metering, around 54% of unaccounted water losses were observed within the system.
The availability of water by the year 2051 was assessed, and the result shows that the surface water availability from its own drainage boundary remains more or less fixed but the inflow of surface water from neighbouring States will be reduced from 37.556 billion cubic metres (BCM) to 25.272 BCM.
The study indicated that by the year 2051 the total water requirement may go up to 85 BCM from the present requirement of 55 BCM, and the State may face a severe water scarcity situation in 2051.
The has initiated preliminary measures to construct aTidelpark inTrichywith senior bureaucrats inspecting potential sites in the city along with officials of Trichy corporation and District Administration. Tidel is a joint venture ofTamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation(Tidco) and Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot).
The park will give an Infrastructure boost to generate EMPLOYMENT opportunities in IT andInformation Technology Enabled Services(ITES) sectors.
In a major initiative to promote electric vehicles, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (Bpcl), a Maharatna company, on Friday announced the launch of 19 EV fast-charging corridors on 15 major highways inKerala, Karnataka and Nadu.
Among the 19 corridors, which connect important religious and tourist destinations with major cities, three are in Kerala.
An exclusive survey-cum-opinion poll conducted by CVoter in Karnataka ahead of the May 10 assembly reveals that as many as 57 per cent of the respondents are angry with the State Government and want to change it.
As per the survey, just about 17 per cent of the potential voters say that they are not angry with the government and do not want to change it. There are other ominous signals for theBJPgovernment led by chief minister Basavraj Bommai. Almost 47 per cent of the respondents rate the performance of the chief minister as ‘poor’.
In addition, Corruption has emerged as a major issue among the voters in the state after Unemployment and Infrastructure. In assembly elections in states ruled by the BJP, the last time corruption had become a major issue was in Jharkhand in 2019, where the BJP had lost. Barring that, incumbent BJP governments in states have not faced such levels of anger among a majority of the voters who want to change the government.
The (NGT) has ordered Telangana not to proceed withSitamma Sagarmulti-purpose Irrigation project on riverGodavariin Bhadradri-Kothagudem district without obtaining environmental clearance (EC).
Tellam Naresh of Bhadradri-Kothagudem andBura Laxminarayanaof Mulugu filed an application before the NGT Southern Bench alleging that the Sitamma Sagar multi-purpose project at Ammagaripalli village ofAswapurammandal, Bhadradri-Kothagudem district had commenced work without the EC. They alleged it was a violation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006.
NaduTransport MinisterSS Sivasankar announced that motorists need not apply for commercial badges to drive taxis, autos, minivans, and other Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs).
This means that those who have ordinary licences (non-transport or own-use) will soon be eligible to drive these commercial vehicles. The move is aimed at addressing drivers’ shortage and avoiding crowds atRegional Transport Offices(RTOs).
In order to reduce crowds at RTOs further, ministerSivasankartold the assembly on Wednesday that motorists can avail 42 different motor vehicle document-related Services online. This includes making changes in driving licences, issue of duplicate licenses, and registration of vehicles. The public can either apply for these contactless services from their homes, net centres or through dealers in case of vehicle registrations.
Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) has bagged a Rs 6,200 crore contract to build seven Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (NGOPV) for theIndian Navy. The contract is part of a Rs 9,781 crore order for 11NGOPVsthat theministry of defencefinalised.
Deliveries of the NGOPVs will start in September 2026, and once inducted into the INDIAN NAVY, the warships will be used for anti-piracy operations, search and rescue, maritime patrolling, and surveillance.
Fish catch inMaharashtrarose for the first time since 2017, increasing by around 38% from 1.23 lakh tonnes in 2021 to 1.7 lakh tonnes in 2022, according to Central Marine Research Institute (CMFRI) data.
Despite the increase, the state’s catch was half of the 3.8 lakh tonne landings seen in 2017. Raigad led in the state, contributing 28% of all catch, followed by Mumbai city with 26% and Ratnagiri with 23%. While the catch of all the species rose, except for Indian mackerel which fell slightly, the landings of Indian oil sardine saw the biggest jump -going from 44 tonnes in 2021 to 23,000 tonnes in 2022.
Oil sardine’s catch rises 188% in country, shrimp doubles in Maharashtra
The state’s fish catch increased by 38% to 1.7 lakh tonnes in 2022 with the Indian oil sardine seeing the biggest jump, data from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) shows.
This increase was likely due to Population dynamics -more eggs might have hatched around the same time -as well as conducive environmental conditions, said CMFRI’s Ramkumar. CMFRI scientists had forecast the bump in sardine catch, as the fishery tends to fluctuate with the La Nina/El Nino cycles (2022 was a La Nina year).
Maharashtra also saw big increases in penaeid prawns or shrimp, which doubled from almost 9,000 tonnes to about 18,000 tonnes, as well as ribbon fish, whose catch increased from 4,600 to over 10,000 tonnes.
Fish catch in the state fell dramatically in 2018 and 2019 due to bad weather that kept boats ashore on many days-including a surprising amount of cyclonic activity in the Arabian Sea-as well as overfishing.
In fact, 2019 saw the state get its lowest fish catch since 1974-though that number then fell further in the pandemic-affected years of 2020 and 2021.
Maharashtra contributed 5% of the all India catch of 3.5 million tonnes. The bulk of the catch (around 72%) was by mechanised purse seine boats, followed by multi-day trawl nets and mechanised dol nets.
Only Odisha and Gujarat saw a decline in catch last year. West Bengal saw the biggest increase in catch of around 38.4%-just a little higher increase than Maharashtra-while Puducherry saw a 30% increase in catch and Tamil Nadu 28%.