Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief minister J Jayalalithaa Friday urged the Centre to immediately constitute Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee “to end the travails and tribulat

Govt has spent about Rs 6,073 cr and would require an estimate of another Rs 7,665 cr to finish the project

A statement signed by eminent lawyers, activists, groups and individuals has been sent to the Prime Minister, vice chairman of the planning commission, the ministry of environment and forests and t

THE state government seems to be spending double the amount it has estimated on irrigation projects for the last three years.

Allaying apprehensions over construction of three dams by China on the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo in China), Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat on Friday said the “run-of-the-river’’ pro

New Delhi: Union agriculture ministry has declared 17 districts of Gujarat consisting 132 talukas as drought-affected.

In a reply to Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, union minister of water resources Harish Ravat stated that the districts include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surendranagar and Vadodara. The minister also stated that, water being a state subject, planning, and execution and funding of water resources projects was within the purview of respective state governments.

The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said.

New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Government moved the Supreme Court on Monday for a direction to the Union Ministry of Water Resources to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Wate

Around 15,000 persons from various organisations, under the umbrella of the Yamuna Rakshak Dal, entered Delhi on Monday morning, as part of a protest padyatra, organised to voice their displeasure

“Govt. non-committal on water release from Hathini Kund barrage”

Even as thousands of “Yamuna Muktikaran Padyatra” activists, including women and children, crossed over into Delhi on Monday after a prolonged stay in neighbouring Faridabad over the weekend, they put the proposed demonstration at Jantar Mantar on hold in view of negotiations with the Central Government through the day to find a mutually-agreed solution to the problem of growing pollution in the river. Another round of meeting between Union Minister of Water Resources Harish Rawat and a delegation of the “Yamuna Muktikaran Yatra” was underway till late in the evening.