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Tamil Nadu Government, Darjeeling Tea, IMD Issues Yellow Alert

5 January 2022

  • IMD Issues Yellow Alert In These States

    The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rains and snowfall in various states, including J&K and Himachal Pradesh, during the next several days. The weather service in Himachal Pradesh issued a yellow signal for heavy rainfall for the next 48 hours on Tuesday. Yesterday, Surender Paul, IMD (head), Himachal Pradesh, informed ANI, "Shimla, Chamba, Lahaul Spiti, Kullu, Shimla, Sirmaur, and Mandi have all been issued with a 48-hour yellow alert. There's a good chance that these districts will also get a lot of snow."

  • Darjeeling Tea Output Sinks To Low Record in 2021

    Darjeeling tea production, one of the world's most popular tea varietals, fell to 6.5 million kg in 2021, the lowest level on record and less than half of the 13 million kg produced two decades before. Climate change, garden closures, excessive absenteeism among tea workers, lost export markets in 2017 owing to agitation in the hills, and a lack of effort to promote Darjeeling tea in the home market have all contributed to the decline. Planters believe that unless the government comes up with a recovery package, Darjeeling tea, the Indian tea industry's flag bearer, may fade away like the teas from Himachal Pradesh's Palampur.

  • Tamil Nadu Government Announces Full Lockdown & Night Curfew

    Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian declared on Wednesday that the state will be put under lockdown on Sunday because to rising infection rates caused by the Omicron strain of Covid-19. To combat the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the Tamil Nadu government has also announced a night curfew, which will begin on Thursday. For the 'Pongal' harvest celebration and related cultural acts, the state has postponed all government and private events. In his maiden address to the state Nadu Assembly, Governor RN Ravi stated that the Tamil Nadu administration is fully equipped to deal with Covid's Omicron form and the issues it offers.

     

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