Friday, June 28, 2024

Only a little bit left.

"A roof at Delhi airport has collapsed after heavy rain, killing one person and injuring eight others. Videos online show huge pillars supporting the roof smashing into cars parked along the airport's Terminal 1." "The incident was criticised on social media, with many users pointing out that the terminal has undergone massive renovation at the cost of billions of rupees and had been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March - a month before recent general election began." BBC. "Soon after the grand inauguration ceremony was held in Ayodhya, head priest Acharya Satyendra Das...said the Ram Mandir's roof started leaking after the city witnessed heavy rainfall adding there is no proper way to drain it." ET. On 23 January 2024, PM Modi...threw open a magnificent new Ram Temple in Ayodhya," and, "Modi presided over the ceremony dedicated to the 51-inch black stone idol of the five-year-old God, or Ram Lalla" in front of "8,000-odd guests comprising top industrialists, sportspersons, politicians, film stars, writers, journalists and ascetics." HT. The four Shankaracharyas from Uttarakhand, Odisha, Karnataka and Gujarat refused to attend the ceremony. Mint. "Five people died in rain related incidents in Delhi," including "Two children drowned in a rainwater pool in New Usmanpur area," and "a man in his late 20s drowned in rainwater accumulated in an underpass in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area." BS. "In a video on social media, Ramgopal Yadav is seen carried by his staff to his car as rainwater entered his house." BS. Mr Yadav is a member of the Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party who was twice expelled from the party but taken back quickly on both occasions. wikipedia. "Delhi recorded 228.1 mm of rainfall in a 24-hour period between 8.30 am on Thursday (27 June) and Friday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, stating 148.5mm out of this came in just a three-hour window between 2.30 am and 5.30 am." "This is likely to be the wettest single-day spell of rain for June in the capital since 1936, when Delhi recorded 235.5mm, IMD data showed." HT. Is it really? In July 2018, "Passengers aboard a DTC bus had a narrow escape as the bus got submerged under the Minto Bridge on Friday, following heavy rains across the capital, an officer from Delhi fire services said." TOI. Perhaps, it is not the rain. "Ahead of the monsoon, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had made tall claims on the city's preparedness for the rains. On June 18, Mayor Shelly Oberoi said the MCD had successfully desilted 92% of drains deeper than four feet and 85% complete for the shallower ones." TNIE. That is, 8% and 15% left. Not much. Reassuring, indeed. 

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