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Baltimore city garbage and recycling crews may suspend service Wednesday after a worker died in sweltering heat earlier this summer.[Get the latest weathercast from FOX45 News]The Baltimore Department of Health issued a red extreme heat alert Wednesday, with temperatures in Baltimore expected to rise from 77 degrees at 6 a.m. to 96 degrees at noon and to 101 degrees around 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The heat index, which measures how hot the air is and how uncomfortable people may feel based on temperature and humidity, is expected to hit 106.”To protect our sanitation workers, crews will…
from CFACT David Wojik Maine just got a very strange offshore wind lease from the Federal Reserve. They call it a research lease, not a commercial development lease. It has some mysterious features worth pondering. There could even be a multi-billion dollar ruse here. After briefly explaining the mystery, we finally consider this. First, the lease is for a so-called “research array” of 144-megawatt turbines. Well, 144 megawatts is huge for research. The South Fork Wind Farm (fixed, not floating) that is already operating is a 12-turbine, 132-MW commercial facility, so the array will be larger than a commercial facility.…
Last updated: August 27, 2024 11:34 pm ISTSrinivasan is a 1992 batch officer of the Bihar cadre of the Indian Police Service (IPS). (Image credit: Facebook/University of Hyderabad)The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Srinivasan as Director General of the Nuclear Suppliers Group from the date of joining the post to August 31, 2027 (i.e. the date of his pension), the order said.Senior IPS officer B Srinivasan was on Tuesday appointed director general of the country's anti-terrorism force, the National Security Guard (NSG), according to a Personnel Ministry order.Srinivasan is a 1992 batch officer of the…
After receiving the complaint, the police accompanied the old woman to the village and resolved the issue by talking to her sons. (representative picture)The old woman said that her son no longer took care of her because of some family disputes in the past few days, and even bit her to eat.An 85-year-old woman on Monday lodged a police complaint against her sons in Telangana's Karimnagar, claiming that they abandoned her and failed to provide her with food.According to the sub-inspector, the woman, Narsavva, a resident of Alugunuru village in Karimnagar district, came to the police station along with some…
On Tuesday, heavy rains continued to hit parts of Gujarat, killing at least 7 people. More than 15,000 people were evacuated in various areas and more than 300 people were rescued. The government launched a large-scale rescue operation.Although the intensity of rains on Tuesday weakened from the previous day and mainly affected areas in Saurashtra district, the government launched a massive rescue operation and shifted thousands of people to shelters.Six Army columns have been deployed for rescue operations – one each in Devbhoomi Dwarka, Anand, Vadodara, Kheda, Morbi and Rajkot districts – while 14 NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) platoons…
After an unusually quiet few weeks for what was long expected to be a wild Atlantic hurricane season, things are starting to change. The last named system in the Atlantic, Hurricane Ernesto, became extratropical as it moved rapidly east of Newfoundland on August 20, and it is unlikely that we will have the next named storm before Labor Day weekend. However, long-range models are increasingly confident that the deep tropical Atlantic will soon produce a system worth tracking, and there is good reason to believe that a busy September and/or October is just around the corner. In the Tropical Weather…
Last updated: August 28, 2024 12:03 am ISTThe train will run for the first time from Borivali on August 29. (Representative image)Railways has issued notification regarding running of a train every two weeks between Bandra Terminus and Madgoan, GoaThe Railway Board has approved the operation of fortnightly trains to Goa and Maharashtra's Konkan region from Bandra Terminus station of Western Railway (WR), officials said on Tuesday.They said the train will depart from Borivali, the main station on the Western Line, on August 29 instead of Bandra Terminus.Currently, all trains from Mumbai to Konkan and Goa run from the Central Railway…
Last updated: August 28, 2024 12:08 am ISTAbout 85 motorists were fined for disobeying police orders. (Photo: Representative/PTI)Police maintain vigilance at key locations to ease trafficThe Mumbai traffic police collected over Rs 1 crore in fines through electronic ticket checking on Janmashtami for violating traffic rules, a police officer said on Tuesday.Police maintained vigils at key locations as part of efforts to ease traffic. The fines include riding a bicycle without a helmet, traveling with a three-seater, and driving in a restricted area.2,791 cyclists, including riders and pillion riders, were fined Rs 21 lakh for riding without helmets. 993 people…
An elderly man holds an Indian flag as water cannon fired by Kolkata police. (Photo: X/@amitmalviya)An old man dressed in saffron and holding a tricolor flag went viral on social media after he was seen facing Kolkata police's water cannon aloneAn elderly man braved water cannon to protest against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government over the alleged rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor on Tuesday, holding the tricolor in his hand, which went viral on social media. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) termed his courage as a “defiant spirit”, the TMC questioned the man's presence at the…
Last updated: August 27, 2024 10:44 pm ISTAfter being notified, veterinarians carefully inspected and found that the front half of the cheetah's body, including its head, was in the water. (Representative/data picture)Pawan, a male cheetah, was found lying motionless near the edge of a swollen nullah in the bush around 10.30 am on Tuesday.Namibian cheetah Pawan died in the wild on Tuesday at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an official said.KNP's latest cheetah death was reported weeks after the death on August 5 of Gamini, a 5-month-old African cheetah cub.The male cheetah, Pawan, was found lying motionless near the…