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Centre to deploy additional forces in Punjab
ahead of Ops BLUE STAR ANNIVERSARY
New Delhi : The Centre will
deploy additional forces in Punjab
ahead of the Operation Blue Star
anniversary in June.
The move came after Punjab
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann
met Union Home Minister Amit
Shah on Thursday afternoon at
North Block and demanded
deployment of additional paramilitary
forces in the state ahead of the
38th anniversary of the Operation
Blue Star on June 6 - when Indian
Army and other security forces
stormed the Golden Temple in
1984 to root out Khalistani terrorists.
According to Ministry officials,
20 para-military force companies
will be sent - 10 for Amritsar city
and around and rest for other sensitive
parts of the state.
The proscribed Sikh For Justice has again announced to hold a 'Khalistan Referendum' on June 6 and the intelligence agencies have
Key climate change
indicators break records
in 2021: UN report
Geneva : Four key climate
change indicators, including
greenhouse gas concentrations,
sea level rise, ocean heat and
ocean acidification, set new
records in 2021, a report from
the World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO) said.
According to the WMO State
of the Global Climate in 2021
report on Wednesday, the past
seven years have been the
warmest seven years on record,
with 2021 being "only" one of
the seven warmest because of a
La Nina event at the start and
end of the year, which had a
temporary cooling effect but did
not reverse the overall trend of
rising temperatures.
The average global temperature
in 2021 was about 1.11
degrees Celsius above the preindustrial
level, the report
added.
That's based on the 2015 Paris
Agreement in which countries
set long-term goals to substantially
reduce global greenhouse
gas emissions to limit the global
temperature increase in this century
to two degrees Celsius
while pursuing efforts to limit
the increase even further to 1.5
degrees Celsius, Xinhua news
agency reported.
The WMO report said greenhouse
gas concentrations
reached a new global high in
2020 and continued to increase
in 2021 and early 2022, as ocean
heat was record high and ocean
acidification intensifying, which
threatens organisms and ecosystem
services, and hence food
security, tourism and coastal
protection. Global mean sea
level also reached a new record
high in 2021, at a rate of more
than double that between 1993
and 2002, mainly due to the
accelerated loss of ice mass from
the ice sheets. Extreme meteorological
hazards such as exceptional
heatwaves, flooding,
drought and hurricane raged
across the globe, affecting
ecosystems and displaced millions
of population. The WMO
also warned that the compounded
effects of conflict, extreme
weather events and economic
shocks, further exacerbated by
the Covid-19 pandemic, undermined
global food security.
also sounded the alert for Punjab
and neighbouring states.
Following the input from the
Intel agencies, the Punjab government
has sounded a general alert in
the state and asked the security
forces to be on high alert.
"There has been a regular input
that some miscreants are trying to
create troubles in Punjab. So I
request the Home Minister to sanction
additional forces," Mann said
after meeting Shah.
Officials in the Ministry said
that 10 companies have already
been sanctioned to Punjab after the
meeting and additional 10 companies
will be sanctioned at earliest.
Mann also said that the Home
Minister has assured him that the
Centre will help the state in all
security-related issues.