Environment

MANILA, Mar 11 (NNN-PNA) – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology today raised the alert level over Mount Kanlaon volcano in the central Philippines, saying the volcano has “entered a period of unrest.”

The institute said, it declared alter level 1, saying that, the volcano on Negros Oriental province, in the country’s Visayas region, “is at an abnormal condition and has entered a period of unrest.”

JAKARTA, Mar 11 (NNN-ANTARA) – Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.8 and 4.9, jolted western part of Indonesia province on Tuesday, leaving scores of people wounded and several houses destroyed, officials said.

The latest quake struck at 9:06 p.m. Jakarta time (1406 GMT) (last night), with the epicentre at 88 km southeast of Enggano Island, in Bengkulu province, and the depth at 48 km under the seabed, said Prio Budi, an official at the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.

KIGALI, March 7 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 53 people were killed and 84 others injured in different parts of Rwanda due to disasters triggered by heavy rains since January this year, Ministry of Emergency Management said.

The ministry said in its disaster update that 858 houses, 196 hectares of crops, 23 roads, 17 bridges and eight churches, among others, were destroyed.

The update cited lightning, floods and rainstorms as the major causes of deaths.

KANPUR: The much-awaited rain occurred on Thursday morning. But the day was brighter and sunnier with the sun rays. Though the met department in forecast predicted of paltry sunny weather on a very particular day.  

The shower remained the talk among the ladies as they did not expect of the early morning downpours on Thursday. One lady teacher talking to a housewife said, don't you know it rained early in the morning. In reply to the disclosure, she expressed her complete surprise at the sudden rains. It was shocking to her without a doubt.

Washington, Feb 25 (PTI) Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday slammed President Donald Trump for selling weapons to India, saying that the US should instead partner with New Delhi to fight climate change to save the planet.

Sanders, who has won the Nevada and New Hampshire primaries and tied in Iowa, made the comments after Trump, who is on a two-day visit to India, on Monday announced that the US will sign defence trade deals worth USD 3 billion with India.

SYDNEY, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Despite record-breaking rainfall on Australia’s east coast in recent weeks, politicians warn that for most of New South Wales (NSW) state, severe drought conditions are far from over.

LONDON, Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Storm Dennis killed at least five in the country since Saturday, and there is further wet and windy weather to come this week, Britain’s national weather service, the Met Office warned.

Body of a 55-year-old women, who was swept away in Worcestershire, was found Monday. One body was found in a south Wales river, while another was found dead in Scotland mountain track. The other two were found dead in Kent on Sunday, The Times newspaper reported.

Kanpur:  As tanneries' owners were served with a notice to keep its units closed from February 19 till further notice, the good news in regard to the Ganga river remains quite optimistic. The testing has apparently demonstrated an increase of oxygen level into the river water thereby making it suitable for a ritual dip or sip.

Declaring the samples taken by a team of experts at different spots straight between Ghat and Jajmau bridge, the regional pollution control board officials have said that river water quality was improved amply.

LONDON, Feb 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man died after falling into a river on Sunday as Storm Dennis swept across Britain with the army drafted in to help deal with heavy flooding and high winds.

The man fell into the River Tawe, in south Wales, police said.

The storm also battered much of France, with some 60,000 people suffering power cuts in the northwest of the country.

JACKSON, Feb 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mississippi urged thousands of people in the Pearl River flood plain to evacuate as the river reached its highest level in 37 years near the state capital and was not expected to recede for days.

Governor Tate Reeves had declared a state of emergency on Saturday as managers of the Ross Barnett Reservoir just upstream from the state capital of Jackson warned they had to start releasing more water into the Pearl River because it had reached capacity.