Container cargo traffic at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) recorded a 65.38 per cent growth in May at 4,54,385 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) over 2,74,755 TEUs in the same month last year. Also, the rail operations at the port handled 86,452 TEUs of inland container depot (ICD) traffic, from 551 rakes during the previous month, clocking a rail-coefficient of 19.03 per cent, JNPT said in a statement. The port has witnessed a steady surge in cargo handling despite the various challenges faced during the past few months, it said, adding in May 2021, the port implemented a host of measures to make the business efficient, economical and opportune for the EXIM community.
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Oil rig personnel rescued by the Indian Navy in Mumbai on May 18 (Indian Navy/AP)
The gloomy portent to India’s worst-ever offshore disaster was a series of satellite images. On May 15, meteorologists in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Delhi didn’t have the slightest doubt what the INSAT-3D imagery was showing them. The menacing low-pressure vortex they saw heading north just off India’s west coast was an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’, likely one of the biggest cyclones to hit the west coast in decades. The IMD alert that day sounded the warning as the cyclone had begun barrelling towards Gujarat, right over the vital oil fields of Mumbai High operated by the petroleum ministry PSU, the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC).
Former Civil Servants Slam Modi Govt for Mishandling Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic
In an open letter to the prime minister, the signatories have urged Modi to take immediate steps including free universal vaccination for all, ramp up testing, and stop expenditures on Central Vista.
Family members of COVID-19 patients wait to fill their empty cylinders with medical oxygen outside an oxygen filling centre, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, in Lucknow, Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: A group of senior retired civil servants including a former Union cabinet secretary, former national security adviser and former Union secretaries for health, agriculture, external affairs, social justice, coal, IT and other ministries have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing displeasure at the seemingly “casual attitude” of the central government to the magnitude of the COVID-19 situation and its impli