Ganpati immersions spell doom for Kankaria lake
Though devotees bid a farewell to Ganpati and prayed for an early come back, very few in the civic administration are in a festive mood. Scores of Ganpati immersions in the Kankaria lake, Gujarat,
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Stop construction in green belt: HC
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed that work on two buildings in the green belt beside the famed Dal Lake should be immediately stopped. The division bench of the high court comprising Justice
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Prempura ghat for Ganesh immersions preferred
A symposium was organised by Surabhi School for deaf and dumb students to make them aware about the threat of pollution of Upper Lake, Madhya Pradesh because of immersions of Ganesh idols. The
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A dangerous life on water's edge
Bangladesh is one of the poorest, most squalid, most corrupt, and most densely populated countries on earth. All the Slum Dwellers are forced to use the lake as a collective latrine. They use the
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Naveen seeks report on killing of migratory birds
The gruesome trade in which thousands of migratory birds are poached in Orissa's Chilka lake for human consumption has come to light following allegations that the meat of the winged visitors was
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Disaster to be caused due to the falling of mountains in lake: Bahuguna
Renowned environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, said in the Supreme Court that the falling of the hills and mountains in the Tehri lake will result in the rise in water level in the rivers at a pace of
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Repair of tanks under drought relief works
Home and Minor Irrigation Minister Mallikarjuna Kharge today directed the immediate implementation of work on the rejuvenation and repair of at least two or three lakes in each taluk under the
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Canada to the rescue of Salk Lake sewage lines?
Salk Lake municipality is turning to the West for cleansing its clogged sewage lines. To this end it is negotiating with a Canadian firm and an agreement may be linked soon. One of the two
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'Kerosene lake' poses threat
Kazakh ecologists have warned of what they call a looming environmental catastrophe as an underground lake of kerosene seeps toward the Irtysh river, which runs through Siberia and feeds into the
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BET for better civic projects
Noise pollution, solid waste management, cleansing of lakes, traffic management, the city corporation's byelaws
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Hungary says no worry, wandering frogs will return
A zoologist assured worrying Hungarians that the usual spring mass migration of frogs in the northwest Ferto Lake region was cancelled due to weather factors rather than mass massacres by vehicles in
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Environmentalists and the court
There is a tendency to occupy all the empty places in the city with the result that no vacant plot, park or playground - or even a lake - is spared by lan grabbers. In the past the Bangladesh
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Lakes for Blackbucks
In order to save the endangered blackbucks of Rajasthan, from drought, lakes have been developed for them, and are also being provided with
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Tripura tortoises face extinction
The large number of tortoises which have attracted tourists and pilgrims for the last three centuries in the Kalyan Sagar lake, adjacent to the historic Tripuraswari temple in south Tripura district
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US monkeypox cases rise to 48
A search for the source of monkeypox - a smallpox-like illness not seen before in the Americas - stretched from the Great Lakes to Texas this week as the number of suspected and confirmed cases rose
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Differences among Orissa legislators lead to clashes
Serious differences are reported to have cropped up among legislators over the draft Bill for regulating fishing in the Chilika lake here. This has resulted in strife in this area with violent
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Dyke blown up to release water
China on Sunday used explosives to blow up a dyke of Tangdue lake in east China's flood-hit Anhui province to release gushing flood waters which have displaced some 17,000
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KMC, KIT lock horns
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Improvement Trust have locked horms over the disposal of garbage from Rabindra Sarovar, in the sourthern part of the city. As a result, the national lake
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Govt decision puts them in deep waters
Arattupuzha - Thrikkunnapuzha area in Kerala is a narrow strip of land between the Kayamkulam lake and the Arabian sea. This sleepy village of fishermen and coir workers is always under the threat of
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Conservator of forest told to monitor work
While directing the Conservator of Forests to monitor and co-ordinate the work of de-weeding of Carambolim lake, the Panjim bench of the Bombay High Court has also asked the Konkan Railway