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. …
The Urban Development Authority (UDA) will complete the relocation of 320 families out of the 1,000 families identified to be relocated to facilitate the Beira Lake restoration project by October this year providing them houses in Dematagoda, Beira Lake Restoration Project Manager Renuka Wickramasinghe told the Daily News. The Beira …
Pune Ten years ago, the College of Military Engineering (CME) began creating four man-made lakes on their 2,600-acre campus. Today these lakes have become a natural ecosystem for a variety of birds. Reed beds in the upper lakes organically filter and cleanse domestic sewage; the CME has also earmarked zones …
The loss environment is the main reason for the depletion of groundwater in the district, noted Taluk Panchayat President K R Reddy. He was speaking after inaugurating
JORHAT, Sept 8: The Majuli Suraksha Sammanay Manch submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh through Jorhat MP Bijoy Krishna Handique, seeking Central Government
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: With hardly a month to go for the onset of the northeast monsoon, a check of the rainwater harvesting structures is imperative to reap benefit of the showers. Rainwater experts in the city said Chennai
The Wild Life Department has come to the rescue of drought stricken wild animals in the Sanctuaries, especially Yala and Kumana by pumping water from the Menik Ganga and using bowsers to fill man made water ponds in the Park, Director of Wild Life H. D. Ratnayake said yesterday. He …
Most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are facing extreme or high risk of food shortages, according to a Food Security Risk Index ranking of 148 nations. Pakistan, ranked 11th on the index, is at
The World Bank (WB) has included for the first time Tarbela Fourth Extension Hydropower project worth $300 million in its lists of proposed projects and project concept note at WB
Sri Lanka's marine ecosystem will be affected due to sea level rise around its coastal zone due to melting of the Himalayas. Therefore, the problem related to Himalaya is a regional phenomenon, Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawake said. The Minister was expressing his views during bi-lateral discussions with Nepali Prime …
The United Nations should set up a war chest to help process the billions of dollars poor countries will be paid to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union has proposed. The facility would sit separately from an existing "Adaptation Fund," which aims to soften the impact of climate …
Deliberate Flooding By North Caused Havoc: Seoul Seoul: South Korea pressed North Korea on Monday to explain a deadly surge in a river that flows across their border from the North that killed three South Koreans and left three others missing. The level of the Imjin River suddenly doubled on …
New Delhi: In what is bound to become a carefully watched case in Delhi, the high court has asked the authorities to give reasons why it should not stop all development and construction activity in the Ridge area. The court
Bangalore: Karnataka is releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu in accordance with the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. The Minister for Water Resources, Basavaraj Bommai, said here on Monday that the Karnataka government was releasing adequate water to Tamil Nadu as all the Cauvery basin reservoirs
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that Karnataka has been releasing Cauvery river water this kharif season as per the final award of the Cauvery River Water Dispute Tribunal. Speaking to reporters, he said the KRS reservoir has recorded 26,863 cusecs inflow, while the outflow is 14,994 cusecs. …
Rehabilitation programme for the poor fishermen in the Halda river areas has been stalled for the last two years in absence of a comprehensive policy guideline on modus operandi of utilising the money sanctioned for it, said District Fisheries Officer Serajuddin yesterday. Serajuddin, also director of the project titled 'Restoration …
North Korea unleashed walls of water from one or more of its dams on Sunday, sending a flash flood roaring through the heavily armed border with South Korea and sweeping away six South Koreans, officials in Seoul said. The six South Koreans, who are still missing, include an 8-year-old boy. …
KOCHI: The groundwater Department is upbeat as the rain water harvesting programme introduced in the State four years ago has started yielding positive results with the groundwater level in several parts of the district showing signs of improvement. In Ernakulam district, the department had bored 62 observatory wells in the …
Mumbai Continuous rainfall over the last few days has raised the levels of the six lakes that supply water to Mumbai, with three of them inching closer to their full supply level. Modak Sagar, Tansa and Upper Vaitarna are just inches short of overflowing. Modak Sagar Lake has touched 161.83 …
