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. …
Soon, dried-up lake in Ghata village will give way to Sec 58 a residential colony in Gurgaon. Work has already started Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN What was once a sprawling waterbody will now be a concrete jungle. Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is developing a lake in Ghata village
Though the situation is far better than last year, inadequate and erratic rainfall in the month of June has meant that water level in most of the reservoirs in the country is slightly below the average level expected around this time of the year. Of the 81 important reservoirs monitored …
Less than a week before the Supreme Court fixes a date for conducting regular hearing on the Presidential reference on the legality of the controversial Punjab Termination of Agreement Act, 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to hold a crucial meeting with Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal …
Agartala, July 6: Leading environmental advocacy and lobbying group ARPAN today submitted a 16-point charter of recommendations to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Governor Dr DY Patil demanding immediate implementation for environmental sustainability. The recommendations included developing a master plan for Agartala city, considering traffic flow and pollution control …
SHILLONG, July 6: State Minister of Soil and Water Conservation Prof RC Laloo today said that in the current trend of inter-agencies and integrated approaches to development, convergence and interchange of information assumed significance. Speaking at the function for the release of the annual report of the Soil and Water …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has announced a probe into all kinds of permission given so far for bauxite mining, setting up of alumina factory and allocation of wetlands in Srikakulam for setting up three thermal power projects. He promised to withdraw all permissions …
KOLKATA, 5 JULY: The Rail India Technical & Economic Services (Rites), a Union government undertaking, will sign an MoU with Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) and KMC on 9 July for beautification of the Hooghly river front, said Miss Mamata Banerjee, railway minister. KoPT will set up a new port at …
Five case studies from India provide insights and lessons learned on possible responses to climate change in semi-arid rural areas in the states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. They draw experience from the Vulnerability Assessment and Enhancing Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change (V&A;) pilot programme, implemented 2005-2009 with support from …
China has told India it will only carry out 'run-of-the-river' projects on the Brahmaputra that will not affect the flow of water, says Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. "There is intimation from China that it will only carry out run-of-the-river projects, which would not affect the flow of water …
In Shiromani Akali Dal wants receiving states to pay royalty for water n Haryana retaliated by asking Punjab to pay royalty for water not supplied to it n In India there is no system of pricing river-water though n Two 'water experts' back the SAD demand Jangveer Singh Water has …
While the Supreme Court is looking into the Constitutional and legal aspects of the water dispute between Punjab and Haryana, it is a tricky political issue that has not been sorted out for over 35 years now and which requires a high degree of statesmanship to solve, writes Nirmal Sandhu …
BALAGARH, 4 JULY: Hundreds of people in the Balagarh block of Hooghly, whose villages are close to the river Hooghly, have been having sleepless nights ever since the river started eroding its embankments. Mr Khudiram Das (70), a resident of Sundarpur village in Somra I gram panchayat, said they have …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday. In a written reply to the House, Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran said that water levels in the observation well at the Pudussery grama panchayat office showed a …
Noida: Lioness Club today organised a seminar to spread awareness about water harvesting and the need to replenish water. Dr H.S.Kaprarwan, a member of a Nobel Peace Prize winner team of 2007, and Aditya Batra from Centre for Science and Environment were the eminent speakers .
Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal wrote a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday regarding the release of water to Chandigarh from the Phase V and VI of Kajauli. This comes as a fallout of the recent decision of the Punjab …
After Coca-Cola, another soft drink major, Pepsi, has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala, which has alleged its plant in Palakkad district is extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants. The plant at Pudussery was found to have been depleting the …
M Sarita Varma Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has flexed its muscles at Coke and Pepsi at one go. Within 24 hours of deciding to set up a tribunal to fine Rs 196 crore as environmental damages from Coca Cola, LDF government has indicated that Pepsico factory in Kanjikode too, is guilty …
Rain Is A Much-Awaited Boon And A Runoff Tragedy Rain is the modern-day tragedy in our cities: we desperately wait for the monsoons and when it rains, we weep because roads are flooded, life is disrupted. Mumbai, just a few months ago, was so thirsty for the monsoons that it …
Mumbai: The Union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh is at it again. After taking on his cabinet colleagues from the mines, coal, power and surface transport ministries, the no-nonsense minister is now talking tough to the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, both of whom are …
mumbai the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) told the court on Thursday that the expert committee appointed to suggest ways to make Mithi river encroachment-free, has gone
