5-year health plan with focus on babies
The government is drawing up a five-year health plan with focus on strengthening rural health care and bringing down the death rate of newborns and their mothers. Mamata Banerjee, who holds the health
The government is drawing up a five-year health plan with focus on strengthening rural health care and bringing down the death rate of newborns and their mothers. Mamata Banerjee, who holds the health
V. Balasubramanian, Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, at a press conference in Bangalore on July 4. IT was clear to V. Balasubramanian, the Chairman of the Task
Operation Kolleru Lake launched by the Andhra Pradesh Government to protect the freshwater body and its bountiful flora and fauna, seems to have paid off, with grey pelicans (Pelecanus philippensis)
<p> CHENNAI: The residents of Avadi Municipality will soon be receiving drinking water to quench their thirst and a sewerage network to dispose off the waste water by November 2011, according to Metro Water Managing Director Dr K Gopal. The water supply and underground sewerage scheme worth `261.89 crore which includes building eight overhead tanks, seven underground tanks, distribution of mainline for a length of 328 km and a pumping main for a length of 19 km will benefit 3.4 lakh people, said Gopal on Thursday.</p>
Scientists in Nepal call them the "tsunamis from the sky". Nearly 50 glacial lakes, high in the Himalayas, could soon burst their banks, according to leading mountain experts, sending millions of
<p> Andhra Pradesh has experienced a well explosion. In the last three decades, the number of wells in the state has gone up by four times — from eight lakh to 24 lakh. And, hold your breath, the well population in AP is increasing at the rate of 50,000 a year! What’s really worrying is that scientific steps are not being taken to ensure that the quantity of water drawn from the ground is replenished by rainwater.</p>
Chilka lake, the largest brackish lagoon in Asia, is stinking this season with at least 82 migratory birds falling prey to mysterious diseases in the last 18 days. This incident has sent shock waves
Lakes in the Himalayas are filling so rapidly because of rising temperatures that they could burst their banks within a decade, sending walls of water crashing down into valleys, the United Nations
More than 40 lakes high in the Himalayas, formed from rapidly melting glaciers, are expected to burst their banks in the next five years, sending millions of gallons of water and rock cascading on to
The second-, third-generation survivors continue to suffer the effects of the toxic leak Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy this week held a sit-in at the city’s Lower Lake to mark the incident’s 19th anniversary.NGO Chingari provides the second- and third-generation children with special education and therapy. These children, who suffer ailments such as cerebral palsy, impairments of speech and hearing, epilepsy, heart diseases and others, were accompanied at the protest by parents and grandparents who survived the poisonous gas leak from Union Carbide factory here in 1984.
Engineers involved in the East-West Metro project would rather miss the 2012 deadline than mess with the drainage pipes, electricity lines and telecom cables criss-crossing Salt Lake. Sources in the Calcutta Metro Railway Corporation, which is overseeing the project, blamed the unavailability of maps of underground utilities for the delay in starting construction.
With a successful drive against encroachments in Porur lake, government officials have claimed a rare success of demolising illegal structures from one of the largest water bodies near Chennai. And
The twin cities of Secunderabad and Hyderabad have converted the historic Hussain Sagar lake into a convenient effluent site
DENKANIKOTTAI: Wild elephants destroyed crops near Kelamangalam on Thursday night and later roamed around Kottha lake area. Forest Department officials after much effort succeeded in sending them to the nearby Pavanatham forest on Friday evening. Eyewitnesses said that about four elephants from the forest entered the fields in Jakkeri in Kelamangalam and ate the crops.
The Central Government had published the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 vide notification number G.S.R. 951(E), dated the e December, 2010 to regulate various activities within the
The Appellate Court in Pkhara has imposed a ban on discharging sewage of the Pokhara Sub-Metropolis into Phewa Lake. The court ordered the municipality to immediately stop discharging the sewage into
Over five lakh winged foreign visitors have made the picturesque Kashmir valley their abode this winter, as plunging temperatures and freezing lakes in their native lands have compelled them to visit
Advocate Commissioner K. Venkatramani, appointed by the Madras High Court, visited Pammal and inspected the Tirupananthaal Lake following representations from civic groups about the discharge of
Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or real estate a choice that has to be made. The <font class='UCASE'>Centre for Science and Environment</font>
The death toll among ducks that landed on a toxic waste pond at Syncrude Canada Ltd's oil sands operation last spring was 1,606, more than three times higher than previously made public, Syncrude's chief executive said on Tuesday.