Tauktae to likely intensify further in 18-24 hours: PMD
Pakistan
Sun, May 16, 2021
Cyclone Tauktae is likely to intensify further during the next 18-24 hours, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said in its latest advisory on Saturday night.
In an advisory posted on its website, PMD said that Tauktae may transform into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) during next 18-24 hours.
It is expected to move further in the northwest direction and reach Indian Gujarat by the afternoon/evening of May 18.
It said the cyclonic storm has tracked northwestward at a speed of 18km and at 2100 PST it lay centered near latitude 14.5N and longitude 72.8E, at a distance of about 1,310km south-southeast of Karachi.
Cyclone Tauktae likely to intensify further in next 18-24 hours: Met dept
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Saturday May 15, 2021
Infrared satellite imagery released by the Pakistan Meteorological Department, showing the storm at 2040 PST, May 15, 2021. PMD
Tauktae may transform into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm in the next 18-24 hours, PMD warns.
Says the cyclone is expected to move further in the northwest direction and reach Indian Gujarat by the afternoon/evening of May 18.
Gusty winds and moderate to heavy rainfall and likely in Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, Tharparker, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Sanghar districts between May 17 and 20.
Similar conditions likely in Karachi, Hyderabad, Jamshoro and Shaeed- Banzirabad, between May 18 and 20.
SBCA razes controversial plaza
PHOTO: REUTERS
HYDERABAD:
The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) has started the demolition of a building in Latifabad s Unit 6 as it deviated from the approved construction plan.
The demolition team, led by an assistant director, began action from Sunday, in compliance with the Sindh High Court s May 5 order. These petitions are disposed of with strict directions to SBCA to demolish the building, reads the order. The building s construction was challenged by local residents who claimed that cracks had begun to appear in the walls of their houses due to deep digging for the commercial plaza.
In September, 2016, the development control director combined two built-up plots, measuring 300 square yards each, and converted the plots status to commercial. Locals maintained that the builder purchased the two bungalows and, in order to alleviate their concerns, told them that he would use them for his residence.
SHC seeks Hyderabad s map, survey records from 1943 to 1946
Constitutes core committee to deal with complaints against demolition operations
Sindh High Court building. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HYDERABAD:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has sought Hyderabad s map and the records of city surveys carried out between 1943 and 1946 to verify dubious claims pertaining to old constructions, said to be encroachments, on state land.
The Hyderabad circuit bench, comprising Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and Justice Muhammad Saleem Jessar, sought the records in an anti-encroachment case and also constituted a core committee headed by Hyderabad deputy commissioner Fuad Ghaffar Soomro to deal with complaints against the anti-encroachment operation.
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The Sindh government has devolved the Sindh Building Control Authority, splitting it into six regional offices. This is the third major change to the department since its creation in 1979. The SBCAâs main job is to give construction permits in cities where breakneck urbanization is taking place. The Sindh cabinet approved the proposal April 27 and thinking along these lines at CM House became evident in October 2020. The chief minister said, according to a handout, that they were doing this because the SBCA had a âheavy workloadâ. Now the SBCA would work as a policy-making organization under a director-general. There would be regional or