Heavy rains in catchment areas of dams around Pune increase water stock

Heavy rains in the catchment areas of four dams around Pune, which provide water to the city, increased the storage in these reservoirs.

Current Affairs: Heavy rains in the catchment areas of four dams around Pune, which provide water to the city, increased the storage in these reservoirs.

According to the irrigation department, the cumulative water storage of four dams- Temghar, Varasgaon and Panshet and Khadakwasla- stood 45.1 per cent as on Wednesday evening. A senior official from the department said thatthe Khadakwasla reservoir is filled 61 per cent and the water level may reach to 100 per cent by Thursday due to incessant rains.

Water will be released from Thursday from Khadakwasla, he said. A senior IMD official said that the water storage in the dams is likely to increase as good rainfall is expected in the catchment areas in the next few days. Moderate rainfall with isolated heavy spells are expected in Pune district, while isolated heavy to very heavy showers are expected in the ghat (hilly) areas, the official said..

2 minors among 6 dead as car plunges into canal in Greater Noida due to fog

According to the police, there was one more car accompanying the Ertiga and all the occupants were residents of Sambhal district who were on their way to Delhi.

Six people, including two minors, were killed when their car skidded off the road and fell into a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida, apparently due to fog, police said on Monday. Five other occupants of the vehicle sustained injuries in the incident that took place around 11.30 pm on Sunday, they said.”Altogether 11 people were on board the Maruti Ertiga. The car fell into the Kherli canal in Dankaur area. All 11 were taken to a hospital, where doctors declared six of them dead, while the remaining five are undergoing treatment,” a police spokesperson said.

Prima facie, the accident appeared to have taken place due to low visibility caused by fog, the official added. According to the police, there was one more car accompanying the Ertiga and all the occupants were residents of Sambhal district who were on their way to Delhi. The deceased have been identified as Mahesh (35), Kishan Lal (50), Neeresh (17), Ram Khiladi (75), Mallu (12) and Netrapal (40), they said.

Lion Air crash: Indonesia directs inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes

Indonesia has directed all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft belonging to commercial airlines in the country to undergo an inspection in the wake of the tragedy involving Lion Air flight 610 that killed all 189 people on board.

Captain Avirianto, an Indonesian Transportation Ministry official, told CNN that Lion Air is currently in possession of 11 of one of Boeing’s most advanced airplanes. National airline Garuda Indonesia has one Boeing 737 Max 8 aricraft.

“We have inspected Garuda last night while Lion is still in progress,” Avirianto stated. He further said that the three of Lion Air‘s airplanes will undergo inspection by the end of Tuesday, while the other eight will be inspected soon.

Daniel Putut Adi Kuncoro, the managing director of Lion Air group, also confirmed the ongoing inspection of the aircraft in their fleet, saying, “We are waiting for their results. We will follow what the regulator tells us to do.”

Meanwhile, drones and sonar technology has been deployed the Java Sea to search for the remains of the downed plane which| BS |crashed on Monday, with the aircraft’s fuselage and flight data recorder yet to be retrieved. The search operations were spread over a 400 nautical mile area on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that 24 body bags have been transferred from the crash site for post-mortem evaluations, adding that DNA samples from as many as 132 family members of the passengers of the ill-fated flight have been taken to verify identities.

According to the region’s national search and rescue agency Basarnas, the aircraft disappeared from radar just 13 minutes after takeoff. The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

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