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. …
ERODE: The Tamizhaga Vivasyigal Sangam has asked the Forest Department to create adequate water sources for wild animals in reserve forests in the district. With jungles in the district hit by drought, wild animals stray into human habitations and enter fields in search of water. This results in crops getting …
Koracharahatti has Ayyanakere and Madagadakere, two largest lakes in the district, on its either sides but yet it was facing drought till about one-year-ago. Bore wells would go dry, leaving people in dire strait, forcing them to trek miles to get water. Tired of this regular routine, some farmers decided …
Members of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly had written to environment minister Jairam Ramesh asking him to reduce the wetland areas around the Kolleru Lake Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh. Mr Ramesh, whose own nomination for the Rajya Sabha was from Andhra Pradesh in August, personal ly visited Kolleru on Febru- ary …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to install tube wells in every block of the State to deal with the shortage of drinking water in rural areas in during the summer. A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik …
With an aim to supply water to the parched paddy fields of Pakur, the district administration has urged the state government to revive the Torai reservoir project that has been lying incomplete since 1998. Pakur deputy commissioner Manish Ranjan, in a letter to the chief secretary recently, requested him to …
ASKS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE IRRIGATION IN CONCURRENT LIST INTERLINKING of rivers is one of the key policies that would help the government strengthen the country, voiced the party president Nitin Gadkari here on Monday. "Bring BJP to power, and this project will be on the priority list, which will …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has devised an action plan worth Rs.32 crore for revival of rivers of the length of 1,400 km in the Hadoti region by constructing large check-dams for conservation of rain waters. The construction of a check-dam at Haripura Manjhi on the Kalisindh river route has already …
Water is essential for every activity and must be protected writes MATHIAS BOSCO LAWRENCE Life, on Earth, would be impossible without water. History bears testimony to the fact that human civilizations have had their origins around sources of water. And despite mankind
April 8: At a time when the state is reeling under a shortage of drinking water, the government has issued an order allowing Coca-Cola company to draw 2,150 cusecs of water per day from the Western main canal of the Krishna river. The company will draw water from the Guntur …
Chhattisgarh's key rivers, the Kelo, Kurkut, Shabri, Kharun, Sheonath and Maand, have all been handed over to private companies With Chhattis April 8: With Chhattisgarh
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by …
"The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be Green by rainwater harvesting-democracies." Looking to the summer ahead Many MP cities …
The civic authorities on Wednesday started demolishing encroachments on Bikramgarh Jheel, off South City, that has shrunk from 100 to 20 bighas following rampant landfill by a section of realtors.
The High Court on Tuesday ordered notices to the Chief Secretary, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, Bangalore Development Authority, Lake Development Authority, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and DCF of Bangalore South for inaction in rejuvenating 144 lakes within BBMP limits. The petitioner, S Vasudev, …
Bill To Be Tabled In Next Assembly Session New Delhi: Using grounwater without any care in the world? Your happiness may be short-lived. After much resistance from the opposition, the Sheila Dikshit government is determined to push the groundwater Bill that will make extraction of the precious resource chargeable. Speaking …
Hazaribagh, April 5: First, the bad news: the water level of Charwa dam is fast receding. Now, the ugly news: the reservoir may be able to sustain life only till month-end. Originally built over 100 acres in 1954, the reservoir catered to barely 30,000 people in Katkamsandi, 5km from Hazaribagh …
NDA working chairman L K Advani has again pitched strongly for inter-linking of rivers in the country, something that was projected as a flagship programme during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government
London: The technology Nasa has used on Mars to find underground ice can be replicated to search hidden water sources in deserts on Earth, scientists at the US space agency have said, claiming this could also help prevent the world from conflicts over war. The Nasa technology, dubbed Marsis, consisted …
