It was further learnt that the increasing saline content has even pervaded into the subsoil and ground water making it extremely salty and harmful for consumption.
June 12, 2020A 12-year-old boy from a remote village of Odisha’s Kendrapara district displayed exemplary courage to save his 26-year-old uncle from claws of death following attack by a furious estuarine crocodile. The survivor Binod Mallick, an inland fisherman from Kandira village, is undergoing treatment at a government run hospital in Rajnagar recalled the harrowing experience and …
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February 22, 2018Heavy rains battered southern districts of Tamil Nadu and state capital Chennai on Thursday night and early Friday morning, forcing the authorities to order the closure of schools and colleges. Life in Kanyakumari was thrown out of gear due to heavy rain and strong winds. Over 1,000 affected people have been put up in camps, …
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December 1, 2017A 30-year-old woman from a village in Gujarat has sought the help External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to bring back the body of her husband, who she claimed has died at a jail in Pakistan. Jivuben Chauhan, a resident of Paldi village in Una tehsil of Gir Somnath district, wrote a letter in this connection …
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July 20, 2017The officials of the fisheries department of Gujarat Government took custody of 220 fishermen who were handed over by Pakistan to Indian agency, late on Monday night, a senior official said. "These fishermen were released from the Landhi jail in Karachi on December 25 as a goodwill gesture and were handed over to the Border Security …
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December 27, 2016Pakistan on Sunday released 220 Indian fishermen, a goodwill gesture which comes amid strain in ties after the recent cross border terror incidents. The 220 fishermen released from Malir jail here were arrested for allegedly entering Pakistan's territorial waters illegally and fishing, jail superintendent Hassan Sehto. The fishermen boarded a train to Lahore, from where …
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December 25, 2016