IMD is yet to issue an official statement on this year's monsoon arrival date, as it is awaiting the onset of rainfall over Kerala first. South-west monsoon normally sets in over Kerala around June 1. However, this year, the Monsoon is likely to arrive in Kerala by June 4 with a model error of four days., Mumbai News, Times Now
Almost two years after it had drifted during Cyclone Nisarg and run aground off Maharashtra s Ratnagiri, damaged commercial oil tanker M.T. Basra Star has finally been recommended to get clearance from the Environment Ministry for .
Escaping storm, villagers land up in railway tunnel for shelter again
Escaping storm, villagers land up in railway tunnel for shelter again
BySupriya DedgaonkarSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: May 19, 2021, 06:00 IST
IT’S THE SAME A YEAR AFTER ANOTHER CYCLONE
Cyclone Tauktae claims homes of families in Umbarvira once more; they are eking out a miserable life for last 2 days in damp, dirty cave.
Govt promises compensation
Cyclone Tauktae has proved to be a disappointing déjà vu for several poverty-struck families residing in the tiny Umbarvira hamlet, located at some distance from Khalapur. Just like last year, when
Cyclone Nisarga had struck, this time round as well, several of their houses have been washed away, and they have once again moved into an abandoned railway tunnel in the area, eking out a miserable existence.
Scavengers: Infinity war
At one point of time in 1990s, there were 2,000 vultures in
Raigad district alone but their number has now come down to 350.
The forest department and Mahad-based conservation
NGO Seescap (Society of Ecoendangered Species Conservation and Protection) will be undertaking the first-ever census of vultures in India.
At one point, Mumbai had many vultures, and most of them were restricted to
Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the
Tower of Silence, where the Parsis perform the last rites of their dead.
Over a period of time due to increasing urbanisation, the vultures left Mumbai. The decline in the population of vultures in Maharashtra and many other parts of the country has been blamed on the