NEEPCO blamed for flash floods
Ajit Patowary

A new era will dawn in a part of the Hambantota district with the completion of the Kekiri Obada and Weheragala reservoir projects.
On completion of this project 5,000 farmer families will be benefitted and 5,611 hectares could be irrigated.

Business Standard / New Delhi October 27, 2008, 0:01 IST

Hundreds of growers of Tandojam, Detha, Usman Shah, Tando Qaiser and adjoining areas staged a protest demonstration on Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas road in Tandojam on Wednesday. As a result, the road remained blocked for vehicular traffic for more than two hours.

BALANGIR: Politics over the proposed second dam project over the Mahanadi at Manibhadra in the district is hotting up with politicians of various hues joining the bandwagon to oppose the project.

Interestingly, no politico is sure about the impact of the project on the district.

Three hundred and fourteen small dams will be constructed over a period of four years in the country under National Programme for Small Dams. The initiative will provide two million acre feet (MAF) of additional water to irrigate additional over four hundred thousand acres of land.

Bhopal: To ensure that residents of State capital get uninterrupted water supply till July 2009, Municipal Corporation has started the work of bringing water from Kerva Dam to Upper Lake on war footing. Work of connecting pipeline will be completed by Sunday night.

Oct. 18: Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said the Pakistan government will never compromise on its share of water from India under the Indus Water Treaty.

"We are' aware of the problem and Pakistan will not compromise on the water issue," Mr Qureshi said while addressing a press conference here.

Kadapa Oct. 16: Works relating to several irrigation projects are going on at a snail