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GORAKHUR: Rivers in “The Basawanpur ring embankment got damaged due to overflow at 3am on Thursday and due to this, 20 houses of Basawanpur and Bharouvalia villages became affected,” executive engineer, flood block, Vipin Kumar said. Rapti is flowing at 77.21m which is only 0.33m below the highest level recorded in 1998. Rohin started receding as on Wednesday evening it was flowing at 84.72 meters which is 0.25m below than a day before. Jal Shakti minister Dr Mahendra Singh is camping in Gorakhpur since Tuesday and on Wednesday evening during meeting with officials, he gave instructions to provide essential medicines especially for patients of chronic ailments in flood affected areas and also said employees and doctors of villages which are safe should provide services in flood affected areas. He also said swimming and bathing in flood water in flood affected areas like Tarkulani regulator and Khorabar area, should be strictly prohibited and potable water, food packets and clothes should be provided to flood affected people as per requirements. The minister asked the officials for continuous watching of embankments especially where seepage is occurring and also gave instructions for safety of embankments.

Gorakhpur, India – Javaid Akhter, 71, has lived all his life in his 100-year-old ancestral house built by his grandfather. The house is located just a few metres away from a famous Hindu temple in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Akhter, a retired engineer with the Indian railways, says Gorakhpur district officials, including the police, visited his house recently and took measurements of the surrounding land. The next day, he was asked to sign a “consent letter”, which said the residents living on the southeastern side of the Gorakhnath temple had given their “consent to transfer or hand over (their) lands and houses to the government” for the “safety of the temple premises”. “We have no issues and as of our consent, we have our signatures as followed,” reads the letter, with the names and signatures of residents concerned. Nearly a dozen families, all from the minority Muslim community living in the vicinity of the temple, were asked to sign the consent letter, with the signatories alleging they have been asked to vacate their houses. Akhter told Al Jazeera that he saw a few families had already signed the letter. “The officials told us that if we do not sign the letter, they have other ways to get our signatures as well. We were pressured,” he said. Incidentally, Uttar Pradesh’s right-wing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is the “mahant” or chief priest of the Gorakhnath temple. Before he became the chief minister in 2017, Adityanath, a saffron-clad hardline leader f...

Image Source : PTI. Commuters wade through the waterlogged Gorakhpur-Deoriya national highway after heavy rain. Rapti and Rohan rivers continued to flow above the danger mark, inundating several parts of the Gorakhpur city where Uttar Pradesh Jal Shakti Minister Mahendra Singh is camping to monitor the situation. The Rapti river is flowing at 77.27 meters, 2.3 meters above the danger level of 74.98 meters, an official statement on the flood situation in the district said on Thursday. The Rohan river, which has started receding since Wednesday, too is flowing at 84.44 meters, 2 meters above the danger mark of 82.44 meters, it added. The Gorakhpur city areas which have been inundated include Illahibagh, Basharatpur, Badgo, Chiluatal, Chilmapur and Bahrampur among others. Many villages in the Gorakhpur district too have been flooded by the two rivers. Jal Shakti minister Singh has been camping in Gorakhpur since Tuesday. Image Source : PTI. Flooded Indane LPG Bottling Plant in Gorakhpur. On late Wednesday night, he held a meeting with senior officials and directed them to provide essential medicines, especially for patients with chronic ailments, in flood-affected areas. He also said that employees and doctors of villages which have not been deluged should provide services in flood-hit areas also. He also said swimming and bathing in flood water in deluged areas like Tarkulani and Khorabar areas, should be strictly prohibited and potable water, food packets and clothes should...

Gorakhpur: In Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar district, a case has come to the fore of embarrassing humanity with the sensitivity and conscientiousness of an ambulance worker. Where two teenagers died in a road accident on Tuesday night. At the same time, 16-year-old Arjun, a resident of Ledua village, was injured. It is alleged that the ambulance worker left the injured Arjun amidst a pile of garbage at Nedula intersection in Sant Kabir Nagar and ran away. Injured Arjun kept suffering there all night. Patient’s family alleges negligence The family members admitted the injured to the hospital. MP Praveen Nishad, MLA Ankur Raj Tiwari and Anil Kumar Tripathi reached Sant Kabir Nagar district hospital to know about the condition of the injured. When he came to know about the inhumanity of the ambulance personnel, he got angry. Not only this, the family members of the patient also alleged negligence in the treatment of the patient. After which the MP, alleging anarchy in the district hospital, sought answers from the CMS regarding the lack of proper treatment of the patients. CMS resigned When the CMS did not respond, the MP said that the hospital is not able to handle you. After which, considering the complaint of the MP as misbehaviour, the CMS resigned on Wednesday. On the other hand, in this matter, Praveen Nishad, MP of Sant Kabir Nagar district, told that everyone will have to answer towards the public. When an answer was sought from the CMS about the inhuman act done b...

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On Tuesday night, three youths on a motorcycle, who were coming from Dudhara town were hit by an unidentified vehicle. Two died on the spot while the third, Arjun, was sent in an ambulance to the government hospital for treatment. However, he was found on the roadside by locals on Wednesday morning. Around 50 boats from Bhopal?s Water Sports Academy reach Gorakhpur for the national rowing championship as part of Khelo India University Games. The event will see 417 students from 24 universities playing around 30 matches. The championship will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on May 27. During Janata Darbar on the second day of his visit at Digvijayanath auditorium in Gorakhnath temple, the chief minister took applications and listened to problems of around 400 visitors, assuring help. Yogi said that government welfare schemes should reach the poor and entitled people and said if there was problem at any level, it should be resolved with coordination. Both leaders discussed the development vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the similarity of the cultures of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. During the 50-minute meeting, Shukla offered a cap of Himachal Pradesh and a woollen shawl to the chief minister. Later, he shared about the meeting on Twitter. UP Board's headquarters and regional offices in Prayagraj, Meerut, Varanasi, Bareilly, and Gorakhpur will reopen on Monday, allowing students to report any anomalies or problems in their high school and i...

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Gorakhpur, India – Javaid Akhter, 71, has lived all his life in his 100-year-old ancestral house built by his grandfather. The house is located just a few metres away from a famous Hindu temple in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Akhter, a retired engineer with the Indian railways, says Gorakhpur district officials, including the police, visited his house recently and took measurements of the surrounding land. The next day, he was asked to sign a “consent letter”, which said the residents living on the southeastern side of the Gorakhnath temple had given their “consent to transfer or hand over (their) lands and houses to the government” for the “safety of the temple premises”. “We have no issues and as of our consent, we have our signatures as followed,” reads the letter, with the names and signatures of residents concerned. Nearly a dozen families, all from the minority Muslim community living in the vicinity of the temple, were asked to sign the consent letter, with the signatories alleging they have been asked to vacate their houses. Akhter told Al Jazeera that he saw a few families had already signed the letter. “The officials told us that if we do not sign the letter, they have other ways to get our signatures as well. We were pressured,” he said. Incidentally, Uttar Pradesh’s right-wing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is the “mahant” or chief priest of the Gorakhnath temple. Before he became the chief minister in 2017, Adityanath, a saffron-clad hardline leader f...

GORAKHUR: Rivers in “The Basawanpur ring embankment got damaged due to overflow at 3am on Thursday and due to this, 20 houses of Basawanpur and Bharouvalia villages became affected,” executive engineer, flood block, Vipin Kumar said. Rapti is flowing at 77.21m which is only 0.33m below the highest level recorded in 1998. Rohin started receding as on Wednesday evening it was flowing at 84.72 meters which is 0.25m below than a day before. Jal Shakti minister Dr Mahendra Singh is camping in Gorakhpur since Tuesday and on Wednesday evening during meeting with officials, he gave instructions to provide essential medicines especially for patients of chronic ailments in flood affected areas and also said employees and doctors of villages which are safe should provide services in flood affected areas. He also said swimming and bathing in flood water in flood affected areas like Tarkulani regulator and Khorabar area, should be strictly prohibited and potable water, food packets and clothes should be provided to flood affected people as per requirements. The minister asked the officials for continuous watching of embankments especially where seepage is occurring and also gave instructions for safety of embankments.

Gorakhpur: In Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar district, a case has come to the fore of embarrassing humanity with the sensitivity and conscientiousness of an ambulance worker. Where two teenagers died in a road accident on Tuesday night. At the same time, 16-year-old Arjun, a resident of Ledua village, was injured. It is alleged that the ambulance worker left the injured Arjun amidst a pile of garbage at Nedula intersection in Sant Kabir Nagar and ran away. Injured Arjun kept suffering there all night. Patient’s family alleges negligence The family members admitted the injured to the hospital. MP Praveen Nishad, MLA Ankur Raj Tiwari and Anil Kumar Tripathi reached Sant Kabir Nagar district hospital to know about the condition of the injured. When he came to know about the inhumanity of the ambulance personnel, he got angry. Not only this, the family members of the patient also alleged negligence in the treatment of the patient. After which the MP, alleging anarchy in the district hospital, sought answers from the CMS regarding the lack of proper treatment of the patients. CMS resigned When the CMS did not respond, the MP said that the hospital is not able to handle you. After which, considering the complaint of the MP as misbehaviour, the CMS resigned on Wednesday. On the other hand, in this matter, Praveen Nishad, MP of Sant Kabir Nagar district, told that everyone will have to answer towards the public. When an answer was sought from the CMS about the inhuman act done b...