Sheltered from the heavy rain in memory meadow

KARACHI: A day after the torrential showers lashed Karachi, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Thursday forecast that the port city is expected to receive around 150 millimeters of rainfall during the next four to five days under the influence of the fourth monsoon spell. In its daily report, the Met Office forecast heavy rains in the port city today, adding that this rain spell is expected to continue until August 14. “Monsoon currents from Bay of Bengal are penetrating in upper and lower parts of the country. A westerly wave is also present in upper and western parts of the country,” said the PMD. The weather department warned that heavy rains may generate urban flooding in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad and Mirpurkhas from August 11 to 13. Flash flooding is expected in Qilla Saifullah, Loralai, Barkhan, Kohlu, Mosa Khel, Sherani, Sibbi, Bolan, Kalat, Khuzdar, Lasbella, Awaran, Turbat, Panjgur, Pasni, Jiwani, Kohat, Swabi, Nowshera, Mardan, … [Read more...] about Karachi weather update: City expected to receive 150mm of rainfall in next 4-5 days

Official plans to reduce the amount of raw sewage that is dumped in rivers and lakes across the country have been delayed by the Government, it has emerged. Ministers were due to publish a strategy outlining how they would tackle what they call the “unacceptable” levels of sewage discharge by next month. But the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has quietly shelved this until a future date, saying the plan will now be published “in due course”. An investigation by The Telegraph earlier this year found that water companies are releasing raw sewage into rivers more than 1,000 times a day despite being told to do so only when there is heavy rainfall. Raw sewage was discharged into rivers and coastal areas for more than 3.1 million hours on more than 400,000 occasions throughout 2020, according to data from the Environment Agency. Jim McMahon, the shadow environment secretary, accused water companies of “ routinely dumping raw sewage in our rivers , … [Read more...] about Plan to reduce sewage in rivers is shelved by the Government

The leaden skies over LSU’s football practice fields occasionally made good on their threat to dump rain on the Tigers’ Thursday morning workouts. But even rain couldn’t dampen the intense curiosity about the proceedings. This was, to my ever more crowded recollection, the first time the media was allowed to watch a non-Spring Game practice at LSU since at least Gerry DiNardo was coach in the 1990s. There was much to see. Who won the grappling matches between the offensive and defensive lines? How were the running backs at hitting holes and catching passes out of the backfield? Is the tight end position, one new coach Brian Kelly likes to count on heavily, going to be an asset or a liability? How were the defensive backs and linebackers? And what about that drill that had the punt returners shagging balls with another football already in hand? Eventually though, whether you wanted them to or not, your eyeballs were dragged magnetically back to the … [Read more...] about Scott Rabalais: The picture is incomplete, but Jayden Daniels is leader in LSU’s QB race

Published 16 December 2013 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A 23-year-old Indian student was fatally gang-raped inside a bus in the capital, Delhi last December. The attack caused international outrage and prompted India to introduce stringent anti-rape laws. A court sentenced her attackers to death this September. The BBC's Soutik Biswas met the family of the victim to find out how life had changed for them after her death. Her father had returned home tetchy and tired after a gruelling 16-hour working day at Delhi's international airport on the night of 16 December 2012. He received a call from a breathless policeman an hour before midnight that his daughter had met with an accident and had been taken to hospital. An hour later, doctors told him she had been gang raped on a moving bus by a group of men. Two weeks later, she died in a hospital in Singapore . Wake up … [Read more...] about How life has changed for Delhi rape victim’s family

It is day 51 of the war in Ukraine, as Russian forces are expected to begin a new big offensive in the east of the country after their retreat from the Kyiv region and other parts of the country revealed growing evidence of human rights atrocities. Despite Moscow's blanket denials, horrific discoveries of civilian murders, torture and other barbaric acts continue coming to light, with Ukrainian authorities claiming tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Mariupol alone. Kyiv forces continue to prepare for the renewed assault, while Western nations keep tightening sanctions against Moscow and NATO and condemnations of Vladimir Putin's actions continue to grow. Follow Friday's events as they unfold in our blog below, or watch TV coverage in the video player above. 04.15.2022 06:45 Friday's key points: Ukraine braces for renewed Russian attacks, after Russia vows to step up strikes in response to what it calls Ukrainian 'terrorist' attacks. A … [Read more...] about Kyiv expecting the worst, as Russia vows to step up strikes

AN entrepreneur who started selling sweets from her spare room has turned the enterprise into a £1m global confectionary business. Laura Scott, 25, from Plymouth , Devon, started the Conscious Candy Company, which sells vegan pick n' mix style sweets, in 2018. She spotted a gap in the market for vegan sweets and began selling selection bags of bulk-bought treats, often on her lunch break from her job in graphic design. In 2019 she was able to officially launch her business, selling out on her first day of trading. This convinced her that she could go full time with her passion project. During the lockdown, business boomed and Laura was shipping her sugary goods all over the world, including fan favourites like cola bottles and fizzy strawberries. She has customers as far afield as the US and Japan. Domestically, Conscious Candy also provides a waffle delivery service in Plymouth on UberEats. READ MORE MONEY NEWS PURE GREED How … [Read more...] about I started selling pick ‘n’ mix sweets from my spare room 4 years ago – now my business is worth £1MILLION

A green-fingered man has stored thousands of litres of rainwater , to protect his 25-year-old exotic garden from the looming drought. Mike Clifford, 61, has spent decades turning the plot behind his suburban bungalow into a tropical jungle full of rare plants. Despite being only 65ft long and 35ft wide, the garden is packed with extraordinary species native to South and Central America, Africa, and China. Many of his plants have bloomed months earlier than expected due to the record-breaking heat. But others, which are used to warm and moist climates, are at risk of dying due to the shortage of rain. Parts of the UK have been hit by water shortages ahead of a Met Office amber warning for extreme heat coming into force this week, while Thames Water on Tuesday announced it would bring in a temporary hosepipe ban. Mike Clifford's jungle garden ( Image: Max Willcock/BNPS) The ban was likely to affect parts of London, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, … [Read more...] about Man with tropical jungle in garden stores GALLONS of rainwater in face of drought

MASSIVE chunks of charred metal thought to be from a crashed rocket belonging to China have been found on land mere metres from people's homes. The out-of-control Chinese booster rocket came hurtling back to Earth on Saturday, and now suspected pieces are turning up across Southeast Asia. People have found unconfirmed debris in Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sawarak, Malaysia . Miraculously, there have been no reports of casualties or property damage. But experts say it came so close to villages, that had it fallen a few hundred metres either way it "could have been a different story". Unverified images suspected to be that of the rocket have started appearing on local media and social networks. Read more about space SUN BLAST Explosion behind Sun throws solar flares into space that may be seen from Earth SPACE HOUSE Inside futuristic space home that could squish inside Elon Musk's Starship It comes … [Read more...] about Scorched ‘out of control’ Chinese rocket debris found on LAND – and it could happen again