Belthangady-Moodbidri SH gets inundated; Venur locals, farmers, buses struggle amid rainwater
Venur: More than 15 families have been evacuated as the Belthangady-Moodbidri State Highway is covered in rainwater, forcing the Moodbidri Police, the linemen and the local youngsters to strive till 3 am on Thursday to ensure the people and their cattle reached safer venues. No casualty has been reported so far.
Rainwater is feared to have entered most of the houses near a temple and a mosque in Maruru village situated within the administration limits of Moodbidri Town Municipality limits, causing heavy losses for the people. The buses in the area were seen stranded in the rainwater near the Venur Church. As the rescue teams successfully continued their operation incessantly, the buses successfully reached the bus stand in Venur at 1.30 am on Thursday.
Farmers too are complaining of losses as an excessively high quantity of water from places like Venur, Hosangadi and Angarakari has slowed on the bridges and dams here and further seeped into plantations and fields situated in several areas. Loss of crop has been reported from Kajottu, Mattu Poocherlekki, Derar, Pade Arladka, Thorpu Anektu Peri, Jangar and Kodamani Kodingeri, as rainwater has entered not only house and huts but also the fields in these areas.
A minor bridge near Maladi Sonandur village of Belthangady taluk also collapsed in the rainwater flurry.
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West Asia war: Vessel carrying 20,000 tonnes of LPG reaches Gujarat crossing Strait of Hormuz
Kandla (Gujarat) (PTI): A vessel carrying 20,000 metric tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) arrived at Deendayal Port Authority in Kandla in Gujarat after crossing the Strait of Hormuz amid the West Asia crisis, officials said on Sunday.
The Marshall Islands-flagged MV SYMI started its journey from Qatar and docked at the port in Kandla around 11.30 pm on Saturday after crossing the Strait of Hormuz on May 13, they added.
Since early March, 13 India-flagged vessels, comprising 12 LPG tankers and one crude oil tanker, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway close to the coast of Oman through which roughly one-fifth of the world's energy supplies pass.
It has been severely disrupted by the conflict in West Asia that started on February 28, with the US and Israel launching joint attacks on Iran, triggering retaliatory strikes. It has resulted in one of the worst energy crisis the world has seen in recent decades.
Incidentally, at a special meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) on safeguarding energy and supply flows, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Parvathaneni Harish said targeting commercial shipping, endangering civilian crew and impeding freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is "unacceptable".
On May 13, an India-flagged commercial vessel came under attack off the coast of Oman.
Omani authorities rescued all 14 crew members of the vessel sailing from Somalia, but it was not immediately known who carried out the strike.
