Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Esther David Once upon a time, Ahmedabad had a river. Sabarmati. The city grew around her and her banks were used for various activities and religious rituals. Today, the scenario has changed. If you are atop the revolving restaurant or driving past one of the bridges, it looks more like …
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today slammed the Centre for showering favours on Andhra Pradesh like Polavaram project and blamed the ruling BJD for failing to protect the State interests. Addressing activists of the BJP Yuva Morcha who staged a dharna near Raj Bhawan protesting Polavaram, senior leaders of the party blamed …
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games organising committee (OC) may have promised to clean-up the Village, but will it be able to to do anything about the massive water accumulation in the low-lying areas surrounding the residential complex? Not likely from the look of things. The Yamuna already touched the 206.48 …
Washington: Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Quran, US researchers reported. Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS Growing urbanisation and industrialisation have led to overexploitation of about 37 per cent of Chennai's groundwater blocks TAPS in the metro still go dry, and the water that flows out could be muddy at times. Yet the scene isn't that nightmarish as it could be 16 …
Amidst escalating tension over construction of mega dams in the upper reaches of Brahmaputra River, an Inter-Ministerial Expert Group (IMEG) after preliminary probe has found that there is no diversion of the water by China, as yet.
The administration and experts alike expressed concern over the prospect of depleted water resources that people of both chennai city and the industries in the rest of tamil nadu would face by year 2026. As Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board reeled out statistics at the Tamil Nadu Water …
The first genetically modified animal aimed at consumers' dinner plates faces an uncertain future following a federal advisory panel on Monday that gave a mixed assessment on whether such food -- a salmon -- is safe to eat. A number of the Food and Drug Administration's panelists raised concerns about …
Dhubri, Sept. 20: Two digital global positioning system (GPS) towers installed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) at Jogighopa river port in Bongaigaon district were swept away by the rising water of the Brahmaputra last week.
A final decision on extending the deadline for installation of rainwater harvesting structures in the City buildings is expected in the Cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday. The amendment to Section 72A of the BWSSB Act in August 2009 mandates installation of RWH structures in all new buildings with a sital …
Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has come out with an Rs 4,668-crore integrated watershed management perspective (IWMP) plan for treatment of 31,12,472 hectare in the state. Highly placed official sources told FE that
President Zillur Rahman on Sunday called for greater diplomatic efforts in seeking cooperation from the Netherlands in managing the country's water sector and also building coastal embankments. The President made the call when newly-appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands M Ali Sarkar called on him at Bangabhaban on Sunday. During …
MUKESH BHARDWAJ Even AS the three proposed dams on the Upper Yamuna basin are yet to see the light of day, Haryana, an upper basin state, has suggested an umbrella organisation to oversee the proposed structures. It was after water released from the Hathnikund and Tajewala barrages in Haryana flooded …
Ravish Tiwari While the severe rainfall deficit in the upper Yamuna basin last year has been handsomely compensated this year, it has come with a rider of its own. The normal rainfall in the basin has brought with it flood threats ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the capital and …
MUKESH BHARDWAJ Even AS the three proposed dams on the Upper Yamuna basin are yet to see the light of day, Haryana, an upper basin state, has suggested an umbrella organisation to oversee the proposed structures. It was after water released from the Hathnikund and Tajewala barrages in Haryana flooded …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court kept its order reserved on a review petition filed by a group of farmers against the high court order giving green signal to Nirma Ltd to put up its cement plant at Mahuva
Poornima Nataraj, Bangalore, Sept 14, DH News Service: 'Recharge wells' seem to be an alien word for many corporators in areas where ground water has depleted to alarming levels. Alternative: A recharge well constructed in Mahadevapura. Although a few private layouts in the new BBMP areas have constructed recharge wells, …
The frayed tempers of BJP leaders of Rajasthan over the alleged denial to their state of its rightful share of river waters by the Punjab government were soothed here today by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal by declaring that no injustice would be done to the neighbouring state. Badal made …
T.S. Sridhar, Principal Secretary reviews development works TIRUNELVELI: All ongoing development projects in the district, including the first phase of the Rs. 369-crore Tamirabharani
