Many more shocking revelations have been made in this report, which shows how pollution is killing people by entering their bodies like slow poison. It has also been told in this report that the worst level of pollution is in the cities of North India.

Pollution causes the death of 90 lakh people every year

In this report of Lancet, data has been taken from a report of Global Burden of Disease, in which it has been told that about 9 million people are dying every year due to pollution but the worst condition is in India. .

1 million premature deaths every year in India

Every year about one million people die in India due to pollution, but the highest death occurred in the year 2019 when pollution became the reason for the death of 23 lakh people. Although the death rate due to household pollution such as burning fuel in the house or the pollution present in the water consumed in the house has decreased in the last few years, however, industrial pollution and stubble burning have increased many toxins and chemicals in the air, which increases the pollution in the air gigantly.

This study also revealed that more than 90% of the people who died due to pollution lived in low-income or middle-income countries. India is at the top of these countries where 23 lakh people died and at number two is China where about 21 lakh people died.

It has also been told in this report that the death due to pollution also had an effect on GDP. The report also mentions pollution-reducing measures by the government, including the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, in which gas is provided as fuel to the poor and women in villages.

Pollution is increasing the most in North India

Regarding the increasing pollution in India, a US research group also said in its study that pollution is very high in many cities of North India and about 480 million (480 million) people living in these cities face the world’s worst pollution level. Huh.

Pollution reached alarming levels in Delhi

In September last year, the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago had also said in a report that if Delhi’s pollution comes up to the WHO guidelines, then the life of people living here can increase by 10 years.

India has an average of 70.3 µg/m air pollutant which represents the highest pollution in the world. According to WHO guidelines, the concentration of particles in the air, i.e. pollutants, should be only 10 µg/m.

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The hurricane has caused devastation across Louisiana, which made landfall late on Sunday morning at Port Fourchon, exactly 16 years since Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic hurricane had killed over 1,800 on the Gulf coast in 2005.

According to authorities, this catastrophic hurricane has hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm with 150 mile-per-hour winds, and torrential downpours.

President Joe Biden has declared the event a major disaster and ordered federal aid to help recovery efforts.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said Ida could be the state’s worst direct hit by a hurricane since the 1850s and promised a swift action to rescue people.

Desperate for rescue, locals posted their addresses and locations, directing rescue teams to their attics or rooftops.

Officials assured to intensify the rescue operation as the weather broke and the sun rose.

The torrential rains mostly moved into Mississippi on Monday as the storm slowly moved north.

Officials have predicted that Ida is likely to move over central and northeastern Mississippi, and move across the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday.

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The Geological department sought forest clearance from the forest department to commence the survey from Bathinda, where the contaminated water is stated to be the prime cause of cancer.

The Geological department was to start the survey by drilling the area from last week, however, it was delayed as forest department objected to the process citing that it did not acquire mandatory clearance from the department, said a senior government officer.

In a letter wrote to forest department by Geological department on Tuesday sought clearance for 70m drilling for geo-environment project in Koreana village in Bathinda.

“The work would involve 70-80m drilling at each location in Punjab and no trees shall be cut down and soil will not be exposed to erosion due to this process,” the letter read.

On the request of the state Geological Programming Board to determine the cause of Uranium, Selenium and Arsenic contaminations in ground waters of Punjab, Haryana. Many cancer cases are being reported from the area. The work has tremendous societal impact and will facilitate the local population. The report of this two-year investigation will be handed over to Punjab government, the letter added.

“The very high values of Uranium and Selenium above permissible limit for human consumption have been found in the Bathinda district and drilling was initiated at Koreana village here but Punjab forest department officials stopped the process citing the forest clearance,” GS Tiwari, Deputy Director General  of Geological survey of India said in the letter.

Various studies in recent period have indicated Punjab is facing a crisis situation due to high levels of uranium, arsenic and selenium in underground water table of Punjab. The situation is especially grim in Malwa belt of Punjab including Bathinda, Ludhiana, Ferozepur, Roop Nagar and Fatehgarh sahib districts, which have high selenium contents in groundwater. Selenium Acceptable Limit (AL) for groundwater is fixed at 0.01 mg/l (ppm) by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), repots indicate.

Following this, the government decided to examine the exact cause of rising contamination in the drinking water and a two year survey from 2020-22 has been initiated in the Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Himachal  Pradesh states by the Central government.

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ITBP Deputy Commandant Dharmender Thakur said that the wreckage of the HRTC bus had been spotted and the NDRF is trying to reach the spot. 50 others are feared buried under the debris and operation is underway.

“It has been frightening and difficult moments for the administration as mountains are still sliding. We have made different teams including one on top, between and bottom to carry out the operation and inform others if in case of a slide,” Thakur said.

It is a dreadful time for families of those feared trapped in the debris, every passing hour is full of anxiety uncertainty about the safety of their loved ones. Therefore, relatives have also started rushing to the spot.

The tragedy struck around 12.30 pm. Several vehicles, including an HRTC bus, a truck and some other vehicles were hit by the landslide. The bus was on its way from Reckong Peo in Kinnaur to Shimla.

Meanwhile, as many as 253 people have lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the state and the highest number of casualties was reported from Shimla 38 followed by Kinnaur 30 this year.

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Himachal Pradesh: As many as 13 bodies have been recovered including a child and five women,  so far and 13 injured have been rescued under the debris during the ongoing rescue operation after a massive landslide trapped on Wednesday near Nigulsari in Kinnaur area here.

ITBP Deputy Commandant Dharmender Thakur said that the wreckage of the HRTC bus had been spotted and the NDRF is trying to reach the spot. 50 others are feared buried under the debris and operation is underway.

“It has been frightening and difficult moments for the administration as mountains are still sliding. We have made different teams including one on top, between and bottom to carry out the operation and inform others if in case of a slide,” Thakur said.

Meanwhile, it is a dreadful time for families of those feared trapped in the debris, every passing hour is full of anxiety uncertainty about the safety of their loved ones. Therefore, relatives have also started rushing to the spot.

The tragedy struck around 12.30 pm. Several vehicles, including an HRTC bus, a truck and some other vehicles were hit by the landslide. The bus was on its way from Reckong Peo in Kinnaur to Shimla.

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In the incident, an HRTC bus, a truck and some other vehicles were reportedly hit by the landslide.
The driver of the bus was reportedly thrown out of the vehicle due to the impact of the slide. The driver is in a state of shock and is undergoing treatment at a local hospital, authorities said.
Following the information, the Kinnaur DC and SP are on their way to the landslide spot, which is about 70 km from district headquarters Reckong Peo.
Shocking videos of the horrendous incident went viral on social media. The teams of Army, ITBP, police and Home Guard officials are enrolled in the rescue operation but it is yet to ascertain that how many number of vehicles were trapped in the slide and causalities were yet to be ascertained.
As per the information, there were around 25 passengers in the bus. The rescue operation has also been hampered as shooting stones are still rolling down the hill, said, Local MLA Jagat Singh Negi said adding one person has been rescued.
Meanwhile, the bus was on its way from Rampur to Nichhar when the tragedy struck.
The SP confirmed that the landslide had occurred and
On July 25, nine persons were killed and three others injured after heavy boulders fell on a tempo traveller carrying 11 persons near Batseri on the Sangla-Chitkul road. Nine persons were killed and two injured.

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New Delhi: In yet another instance of the adverse impact of climate change, the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel revealed that the Indian Ocean is warming at a higher rate than other oceans and India will witness increased heatwaves and flooding.
Scientists said that these will be the irreversible effects of climate change and India would hit hard by heatwaves in the coming years.
Recently, stating ‘Code red for humanity’, UN sounds clarion call over humans ‘irreversible’ impact on climate.
The authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”, said the warming of the ocean will lead to a rise in sea levels, which will contribute to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-level areas.
“For a country like India, some of the increase in heat waves is masked by aerosol emissions, and reducing that is important for air quality. We will also see an increase in the heatwaves, heavy rainfall events, and the further melting of glaciers, which will impact a country like India, more compound events from sea-level rise, which could mean flooding when tropical cyclones hit. These are some of the impacts which will not go away,” Friederike Otto, one of the authors of the report, said.
Another author, Swapna Panickal, who is a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said about 50 per cent of the sea level rise is due to thermal expansion.
She said if large-scale reductions are not made in the greenhouse gas emissions, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees Celsius will be beyond reach.

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y.:  Cemtrex Inc. a world leading industrial and manufacturing solutions company, announced today that India’s willingness to ratify the Paris Climate Accord, as indicated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to U.S. President Obama during his recent visit to the White House, further strengthens the Company’s prospects of opening up worldwide markets for its VAMOX Greenhouse gas reduction technology. In April of this year the Chinese government strengthened its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the Chinese premier’s visit to the White House. The Company believes that these concrete efforts by India and China are potential catalysts for increased global demand for its existing methane (greenhouse gas) reduction technology, VAMOX. Cemtrex is one of only two companies in the world with the technology to supply this market.

So far, at least three dozen countries have said they will ratify the deal, and India’s participation will push the world over the threshold to ratification. “I think we are better-positioned than we ever have been to reach the goal of 55% of emissions and 55 countries by the end of this year, and I think this statement should provide significant additional momentum toward this global push,” said Brian Deese, Obama’s senior energy and climate adviser.

Cemtrex Chairman and CEO, Saagar Govil , commented, “We are delighted to see the world’s largest players working together towards improved climate control regulation and excited that VAMOX can play an important role in sustainability.”

Cemtrex is one of only two companies in the world with critical greenhouse gas reduction technology.

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