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. …
He promises to raise the problem during Cabinet meetings neglect: Continuing flow of effluents into water bodies has prompted Minister for Public Works and Law Durai Murugan to suggest invocation of National Security Act or Goondas Act against those responsible for it.
KARUR: Stringent criminal penal action will be taken against those found discharging polluting substances into the river systems and water sources in the State, according to PWD Minister Durai Murugan. Addressing the media here on Wednesday after reviewing the progress of barrage construction across the Cauvery at Kattalai in Karur …
ARTI SAHULIYAR Ranchi, June 9: If a city-based NGO has its way, the capital will soon get a rain centre to act as an information hub on water conservation and its benefits. Rohini Science Club is planning to set up the centre in association with the Centre for Environment and …
The alternative to development under corporate globalisation is participatory ecological democracy, feels ASEEM SHRIVASTAVA I s development merely an economic issue, as virtually everyone among the elite tends to assume? It is very easy for those of us whose interests are well served by the growth process in India to …
Even as the Madras Engineer Group (MEG) began its search for the body of six-year-old Abhishek, a whole lot of people including BBMP and local residents along Hennur Main Road heaved a big sigh of relief on Tuesday. The reason being Hennur Lake, which is deep with weeds and has …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has instructed to prepare a detailed action plan of water recharging for overexploited areas in the state. The Chief Minister has also instructed to identify water recharging areas through Geographical Information System (GIS) on the pattern of Rajasthan. Chouhan was reviewing the activities of Public …
There is a strong nexus among overutilization of groundwater, subsidized power utility, marketing, minimum support price and procurement policies. Improving competitiveness of water-guzzling crops in the groundwater surplus eastern India and less water-requiring commodities in overexploited northwest and south India through technology, marketing, incentives and disincentive interventions could rationalize the …
As the monsoon retreats and the flood waters recede, the flood bank and bed of the River Dikrong in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh becomes a humming ground of the human activities. Temporary labour tents or huts, crusher machines, movement of trucks and other vehicles all along the length and breadth become …
The State Government has decided to have two percolation tanks for each borewells sunk by the government across the State. The government took this decision in order to conserve water and recharge the borewells. The decision was taken at the meeting of officers of Department of Rural Development and Panchayat …
Jamshedpur, June 7: For Sudha Mahto, a resident of Sarjamda panchayat in Jamshedpur block, summers mean aching limbs and a painful back, thanks to the daily trips of around 10km in search of drinking water. Sudha is not alone. Women of most other families from Sarjamda, Haludboni, Parsudih, Karandih and …
THRISSUR: A Comprehensive study on the linkage between ecosystem services and human livelihood depending upon the Thrissur kole wetlands by the research unit for Livelihood and Natural Resources of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad was launched, with an inception workshop organised by the district administration and …
The gram Sabha meeting of Chandor village Panchayat on Sunday adopted a resolution calling upon the authorities to take up desilting of the Chandor lake and make optimum utilization of the water resources for agriculture production. At a meeting held on Sunday, the villagers strongly demanded immediate work of desilting …
Talks between Pakistan and India on the controversial Kishanganga Hydro Power Project have broken down, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah as saying on Friday. Talking to media in Islamabad on his return from India, Shah said the issue of the Kishanganga project came …
Per capita water availability in Sri Lanka indicates that the country is well endowed with water resources and there is no water scarcity. However there is substantial temporal and spatial scarcity of water supply. Reservation and rehabilitation of small-scale abandoned tanks scattered in the Northern Province will be essential to …
BHUBANESWAR: Centre has provided Rs 17 lakh in the first phase for integrated development and conservation of Ansupa, the largest sweet water lake in the State. The measures for the preservation of the lake were discussed at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy at the …
Green Voice, an organisation working for environment, demanded steps to free the rivers, including Buriganga, Turag, Shitalakkhya and Balu, from encroachers and making them pollution-free. They placed the demand at a human chain formed in front of the National Press Club in the city yesterday. They also demanded steps to …
KUMBAKONAM: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre is very much committed to implementing the Sethusamudram Project which will contribute substantially to country
The severely degraded river systems will be reverted to their past grandeur whatever the cost, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, declared on Friday. She pledged assistance of her administration to multidimensional researches into modes of combating environmental disasters. In the same breath, the prime minister urged Bangladeshis to prepare to …
K. Manikandan ILLEGAL ACTION: Extraction of water from farm-wells has a bearing on the groundwater level in the neighbourhood. A tanker lorry being filled with water in IIT Colony, Narayanapuram, in Pallikaranai.
