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. …
A development programme to utilise the waters of the Kalu Ganga to the optimum level for the benefit of people living around its banks is to be implemented shortly by the Government. Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka directed irrigation officials to draw up a plan to facilitate this and submit a …
The Indian Government will file an affidavit in the Supreme Court today asking for work to progress on Sethusamudaram project. The Government is also planning to submit that ASI survey is not important. The government's turnaround will come as a major boost to DMK. DMK has been pushing for the …
The Union government is likely to go ahead with the contentious Sethusamudram Project. Sources disclose that the government will defend the project when the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday and will reply to petitions demanding that the Ram Sethu or the Adam's Bridge be declared as a national …
Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain …
West Asian, North African Countries Turning To Expensive Schemes For Maintaining Food Supply Andrew Martin Cairo: Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant …
Govrnor sets March 09 deadline for Srinagar sewerage project SRINAGAR, July 21: Governor, N N Vohra, today set a deadline of March 2009 for completion of the mega Drainage and Sewerage Project for the Srinagar City and called for establishing a Task Force to ensure round the clock work on …
Washing his hands off the devastating floods, Union Minister for Water Resources (MoWR) Prof Saifuddin Soz has clarified that his Ministry cannot control floods but normally comeS into the picture only before and after the onset of the monsoon season. Briefing newsmen about the achievements of his Ministry, Prof Soz …
DH News Service, Kolar Gold Fields: A proposal of Rs 24 crore has been submitted to the government for desilting Bethamangala lake, stated MLA Y Sampangi in KGF. The work aims to solve the drinking water problem of KGF people. Sampangi was speaking after launching the borewell works at Parandahalli …
V Krithiga Tirunelveli ANOTHER intra-river linking project in the State is expected to take off shortly as the State Government has released Rs 50 crore for the first phase of the project. The project involves linking the Tamirabarani, Nambiyar and Karumaeniyar rivers in Tirunelveli district to divert floodwater to the …
Pakistani agriculture is facing numerous challenges that are hampering agricultural productivity and it is the mission of agricultural scientists to find ways to increase agriculture production in the country, said Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Minister for Agriculture Punjab. Addressing agriculture scientists, farmers, and trainers at a training workshop held at …
NWFP Senior Minister Rahimdad Khan said here on Friday that provincial government was working on a broad-based strategy to take full advantage of water resources of Chitral for benefits of people. Talking to journalists after offering fateha for the departed soul of IUCN NWFP Head, Shazada Shujaur Rehman who died …
There is an acute shortage of water in the country. A good portion of water usage can be saved if water tap is controlled at different level of output. Normally full tap is kept on while washing hands or face etc. People do not have tendency to keep tap on …
The State Assembly today passed the Guwahati Water Bodies (Preservation and Conservation) Bill, 2008, which aims at saving the city from flash flood by preserving, protecting, conserving, regulating and maintaining Sarusola, Borsola, Silsako and Deepor Beels of the Guwahati metropolitan development area. The legislation seeks to develop these wetlands as …
NEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh made some progress during the Foreign Secretary-level talks here on Thursday on the water issue that has often vitiated public opinion on both sides of the border. They also discussed the Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (BIPA) that could be a precursor to normal economic ties …
Vasant Kunj residents have raised their voices against the government's "apathy" in constructing a flyover near a natural water body, Neela Hauz. The residents fear the flyover would render the water body dry. The residents want to monitor the construction of the flyover so as to save it. Connecting the …
"Punjab is one of those six states in the country which feels it is not necessary to enact legislation on control and development of groundwater resources,' said union water resources minister Saifuddin Soz. The other five states are Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Mnipur and Arunachal Pradesh. Incidentally, in neighbouring Haryana and …
K. Manikandan Poor roads, illegal water connections, delayed projects hinder growth SHADOW OF WATERBODY: Many waterbodies in Pallavaram Municipality are in dire need of rejuvenation. A case in point is the Ramasamy Kulam near Pallavaram Railway Station. TAMBARAM: Pallavaram Municipality presents a unique, contrary picture of massive development works in …
Bangalore: The government is planning to constitute a task force, which will be entrusted with the protection and conservation of around 150 lakes in the limits of BBMP, Bangalore Urban and Rural districts, Excise Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu said on Wednesday. Presently these lakes come under the jurisdiction of Lake …
Surinsar, July 16 The ambitious plans of developing Surinsar Lake has not only run into rough weather but also the fresh water body has been shrinking alarmingly, thanks to a standoff between the Tourism and the Wildlife Department. After the directorate of tourism had spent Rs 1 crore in the …
