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Express News Service DEHRADUN: Satpal Maharaj, state irrigation minister of Uttarakhand on Tuesday revived the debate about lost nuclear device strengthening the rumors that it may be the reason behind the flashfloods caused due to melting of the glacier. It s a matter of concern about how glaciers are melting in the mountains resulting in such unfortunate events. The plutonium pack which was kept to monitor China’s movement is no longer there. I request the government to investigate this angle too, said the minister. In year 2018 too, Maharaj had said that he had urged the Prime Minister to take action in this regard. ....
Uttarakhand Floods: Rescue Team Recover 12 More Bodies, Death Toll Rises To 50 The officials shared that the recovered bodies are being kept at a temporary mortuary built in the Tapovan area and 154 people are still missing PTI Photo/Arun Sharma Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-14T15:17:12+05:30 Uttarakhand Floods: Rescue Team Recover 12 More Bodies, Death Toll Rises To 50 outlookindia.com 2021-02-14T21:42:58+05:30 Also read The toll in the calamity has now reached 50, while 154 people are still missing, shared officials. The bodies have been kept at a temporary mortuary built in the Tapovan area, they added. Five bodies were recovered from the intake adit tunnel of the NTPC s 520 MW Tapovan-Vishnugad project. These are the first bodies to be recovered from the site where muck-clearing and drilling operations have been underway on a war-footing since last Sunday. ....
Express News Service TAPOVAN: The rescue teams at Tapovan have started widening a hole drilled into an approach tunnel on the way to the possible location of over 37 people trapped inside the tunnel of the NTPC’s hydel project. After drilling the tunnel ground 12 meter deep and 75mm in diameter, the NTPC began widening it to almost one foot which is estimated to take 8 more hours. The NTPC has decided to increased the diameter of the hole to reach the Silt Flushing Tunnel where the men are suspected to be trapped, said Ravinath Raman, commissioner of Garhwal division of Uttarakhand. ....
How are the two related? Scientists said the subsurface vibrations of whatever it is that caused the floods may have ‘broken the sensors’ of fish upstream. “Fish have a lateral line organ (a biological system in aquatic creatures that help them detect movement and pressure changes in water). It’s very sensitive. The slightest disturbance can set it off, sending the fish into a state of shock,” said K Sivakumar, senior scientist at Wildlife Institute of India. “In this case, it’s possible that a sound preceding the flood may have been picked up by the fish. It is also possible an electric wire or some source of power fell into the water and gave them electric shocks. There can be many reasons. This is why we keep saying that dynamite blasting should never be done on a river.” ....
“Fish have a lateral line organ (a biological system in aquatic creatures that help them detect movement and pressure changes in water). Its very sensitive. The slightest disturbance can set it off, sending the fish into a state of shock,” said K Sivakumar, senior scientist at Wildlife Institute of India. ....