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. …
Punjab and the Centre appear to be headed for a fresh confrontation over the issue of inter-state water sharing. Nearly 62 years after the Independence, Punjab has decided to take the Centre head on and demand a royalty on water to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore for the water …
USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 …
MUMBAI: The state government is gearing up for a cloud-seeding experiment in Marathwada, the region that houses the constituencies of Congress stalwarts chief minister Ashok Chavan (Mudkhed) and former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh (Latur). Marathwada has received only 15 per cent of its usual rainfall till date, senior state government …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The state capital which is the highest per capita water consumer among 20 major cities of the country will now have to conserve rain water. The government, in the new master plan which is being prepared for Gandhinagar, has decided that it will be mandatory …
Senior Provincial Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed said on Friday the province was facing a 40 per cent irrigation water shortage. Mr Riaz, flanked by Punjab Labour Minister Muhammad Ashraf Sohna, told a press conference at the Circuit House that Pakistan had lodged protest with India over the shortage of water …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will hear in the first week of October a fresh application filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a direction to the Centre to scrap the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan …
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said provision of potable water to the masses is the priority of the government and solid measures are being taken for this purpose. He was addressing a meeting held to discuss issues related to water supply in rural areas at the Chief Minister's …
JANATA Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking scrapping of the controversial Sethusamudram project, claiming that a government expert body has doubted its feasibility.
Sharadha Narayanan | ENS THAMBIVUDAYAAN , a Tamil film based on the Cauvery issue and its effects on farmers in Thanjavur delta, has received a Censor Board Certificate after removing the word Cauvery throughout the film. Directed by debutant Rajaamahes, the film now has been given a UA Certificate, and …
Sessions to be held at the centre at Ayanavaram till October-end Status check: With northeast monsoon a few weeks away, it is time again to check RWH structures to continue to reap benefits from them. A view of the Metrowater
The India-China dispute over Arunachal Pradesh and ADB development plan is not over yet. While the country partnership strategy for India was cleared by ADB board on June 15, after an unprecedented locking of horns between India and China, the latter has not yet given up its resolute opposition to …
Tirupur: Following a Government Order, the Minister for Highways and Minor Ports, M. P. Saminathan, released water from Amaravathy Dam for irrigation on Tuesday. About 1,900 cusecs of water was released through five gates into Amaravathy Main Canal and Amaravathy River after the dam received abundant inflow from the catchment …
Over 40 percent of Britain's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main greenhouse gas causing climate change, come from the energy we use at home and in traveling. As politicians gear up for more climate change talks later this month in New York, changing people's attitudes toward energy consumption could be …
Geothermal startup AltaRock Energy Inc on Wednesday said it has suspended its demonstration project in California due to geologic anomalies. The company, whose investors include Google Inc's philanthropic arm, Google.org, and top Silicon Valley venture capital firms Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said that despite the setback, …
Ravish Tiwari With only one month of the monsoon remaining, the water levels in 81 crucial reservoirs are about 27 per cent below the average of the past ten years
The Arkavathy River Conservation Forum is taking out a four-day padayatra from Nandi hills to Thippagondanahalli covering 101 kms from September 3, to create awareness among people on the need for reviving the dried up Arkavathy river. BJP Yelahanka MLA S R Vishwanath, who has taken the lead in this …
