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Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said emergency crews are nearing the final stages of restoring full water use after a massive feeder main break that has impacted the city’s waterlines for almost one month.

Hurricane is brewing! The US National Hurricane Center in its forecast predicted that Tropical Storm Beryl was expected to strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane. It is likely to hit Barbados late Sunday.

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Uttar Pradesh government has suspended six officials of civic agencies for gross negligence following road cave-ins and waterlogging at several sections of the newly-built Ram Path in Ayodhya. About 15 bylanes and streets along the Ram Path were flooded after rain on June 23 and June 25. Even homes along the road went under water. Portions of the 14-kilometre road stretch also caved in at more than a dozen places. The suspended officials are Dhruv Aggarwal (executive engineer), Anuj Deshwal (assistant engineer) and Prabhat Pandey (junior engineer) of the Public Works Department (PWD) and Anand Kumar Dubey (executive engineer), Rajendra Kumar Yadav (assistant engineer) and Mohammad Shahid (junior engineer) of the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam.

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labourer was recovered early Saturday from under the debris of a wall that collapsed at a construction site in the Vasant Vihar area here amid heavy rain, officials said. Two more labourers are feared trapped beneath the rubble, they said. The incident occurred on Friday and it was reported to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) around 5:30 am. The deceased has been identified as Santosh Kumar Yadav, 19, the Delhi Fire Services officials said and added that his body was recovered around 6.10 am on Saturday.

The bond bulls and Bank of Canada policy doves were on the receiving end of a splash of water this past week. The consumer price index doubled consensus expectations in May, coming in at 0.6 per cent (not seasonally adjusted). That, in turn, pushed the year-over-year trend back up to 2.9 per cent from 2.7 per cent in April (consensus here was looking for further deceleration to 2.6 per cent).

Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-founder and former CEO of US based OceanGate, plans to lead an expedition to Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas, a site known for its extreme depth and often referred to as the 'portal to hell.' Söhnlein, who left OceanGate to start Blue Marble Exploration, will be joined by scientist Kenny Broad and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski. The team aims to explore this virtually untouched underwater cavern despite its complex challenges. Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is described as having a unique «vase» shape with a narrow surface opening that leads to a much wider chamber below. This characteristic, along with the sinkhole's extreme depth, presents significant hurdles, including unexpected currents and thermal layers which could complicate underwater operations. “To date, Dean’s Blue Hole has been virtually unexplored,” the company stated on its website. “Venturing into uncharted waters, our team will have to ‘expect the unexpected.’” At 664 feet deep, Dean’s Blue Hole is one of the world’s deepest ocean sinkholes and was formed approximately 15,000 years ago. Little is known about the site due to its depth, a factor that heightens both interest and risk for Söhnlein's team. Handling the intense pressure at the sinkhole's floor, estimated at almost 300 pounds per square inch—about 20 times the pressure found at the surface—poses a critical challenge. Additionally, the majority of the sinkhole remains in complete darkness due to its narrow opening.

rainfall in the capital on Friday, the roof of Terminal 1 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport collapsed, resulting in one fatality and six injuries. This incident has sparked a blame game between the Modi government and the opposition. Political Accusations Amid Tragedy Following the collapse, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge blamed «corruption and criminal negligence» during the Modi government's tenure for the infrastructure failure.

Kochi: The Udupi Cochin Shipyard Limited (UCSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), has bagged a Rs 1,100 crore-worth international order for eight 6300 TDW dry cargo vessels. CSL said it has won an international order from Wilson ASA, Norway, for the design and construction of four 6,300 TDW dry cargo vessels. «An agreement has also been entered into for an additional four vessels of the same type, which will be formally contracted within September 19, 2024,» a CSL release said. CSL said the new order was a continuation of the contract awarded in June 2023 for the design and construction of six 3800 TDW dry cargo vessels, which are now at advanced levels of construction at the yard at Udupi in Karnataka.

Delhi and the National Capital Region experienced continuous rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning on Friday. The heavy rain led to traffic snarls and roadblocks. An under-construction wall collapsed in the Vasant Vihar area entrapping a few workers underneath, ANI reported.

A part of a fabric canopy on the premises of the Dumna airport in Jabalpur collapsed on Thursday due to the accumulation of water amid heavy rains and crushed a car parked below.

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Delhi, who endured one of the worst heatwaves in history earlier this month, now face severe water-logging with record-breaking rainfall in just 24 hours, surpassing the city's average for the entire month of June. The torrential downpour caused a fatal airport roof collapse, disrupted flights, closed a metro station, blocked underpasses, and led to massive traffic jams, turning the city's relief from the heat into chaos. WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Friday launched a scathing attack against the Centre over the crumbling infrastructure in various parts of the country following the rainfall. He highlighted that Ayodhya, which the Bharatiya Janata Party hails for its development, could not withstand even the first rainfall. «We all saw that water started coming out of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya just after the first rain. The water entered the Garbhagriha, which displeased the temple's main priest. We have seen the condition of the Atal Setu Bridge. The Jabalpur terminal collapsed. The Bundelkhand Expressway was destroyed. The entire Ayodhya, which the Centre hailed for development, got waterlogged after the first rain. The Delhi Airport Terminal 1 roof collapse incident is extremely shameful, as it was inaugurated by PM Modi on March 10. Corruption follows the BJP.», Singh said.

electricity demand in the last 12 months, with peak demand rising by an average of 711 megawatts (MW) on the hottest and most humid days, according to a new analysis published on Friday. The report by the independent think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said Delhi's peak power demand rose by an average of 506 MW on cold and dry days but only by 188 MW on days when the temperature and humidity were moderate. The analysis used wet-bulb temperature (WBT) as a yardstick. The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the lowest temperature to which a person or object can be cooled solely by the evaporation of water. «On moderate days (17.5 degrees Celsius WBT), Delhi's peak demand grew by a modest 188 megawatts (MW), but on the hottest and most humid days (using 32.5 degrees Celsius WBT as a criterion), the annual increase was 3.8 times higher at 711 MW,» the report said.

Wheat yields plummeted last year to 1 ton per hectare (2.5 acres), his smallest harvest ever, as the worst drought period in three decades envelops the North African nation. The 25-foot-deep well on Sadiri’s plot dried up, and he can’t afford to dig any deeper. So now he’s trying barley, a more resilient crop. Sadiri is among 1.2 million grain farmers suffering the brunt of climate change in Morocco, where the frequency of droughts has quintupled this century. The impact will ripple far beyond its borders: The country stands to bring in record volumes of wheat — at a time when major shippers like France and Russia are suffering harvest setbacks of their own — and less of its fruit and vegetables will line store shelves in Europe, the US and the rest of Africa.

Delhi and NCR (National Capital Region) received incessant rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning beginning in the early hours of Friday. On Thursday, parts of Delhi received spells of heavy rainfall, bringing much-needed respite from the sweltering heat. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted the weather for the next seven days in Delhi, predicting generally cloudy skies and varying intensities of rain accompanied by gusty winds.

Upon receiving the information, around three fire tenders rushed to the spot. «Around 5.30 am, we received a call regarding a roof collapse at Terminal-1 of Delhi airport. Three fire engines have been rushed to the spot,» says an official from Delhi Fire Services.

situation on Boeing's Starliner brings back the memory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) “successful failure" mission that stunned everyone 54 years ago.Marred by an explosion on a spacecraft, three astronauts were left "swinging around the moon", over 2,05,000 miles away from Earth. The year was 1970, the mission was Apollo 13 and the US' third attempt to land on the Moon, near the crater Fra Mauro, had turned into a survival challenge for the crew.‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’ – the phrase that has now become famous was radioed from Apollo 13 to Mission Control upon a catastrophic explosion that dramatically changed the mission.