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
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Maize replaces paddy as main crop in Shikaripur taluk
Green paddy tracts and constant rain are familiar scenes at Malnad, specially during the months of Shravana. But, not so this time. The paddy tracts are almost non-existent, while the tanks and lakes
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Parched fields, withered crops greet Central team in N Karnataka villages
Parched fields, withered crops and dry lakes greeted the four-member Central team and three villages in Saudatti and Ramdurg talukas of Karnataka with the farmers narrating the prevailing conditions
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Flooding of Mala may soon be a thing of past
The age-old problem of flooding at Mala, the heritage emerald of Panjim, may finally find a solution at long last, through a revitalization plan of Mala Lake which also promises to make it a tourist
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Ganesha gives lakes a miss this year in Mumbai
This Ganesh Chaturthi, Thane locals have come up with a novel alternatie to immerse Ganesha idols in a lake to prevent water pollution. Instead, the Ganesha idols are immersed in pools of rainwater
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Clinical waste piles up in Salt Lake
The Salt Lake civic body is grappling with mounds of medical waste alongside other garbage. High chances of contamination have forced the municipality to contemplate sterner steps. The municipality
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Kumarakom shows the way
Kumarakom, part of the greater Kuttanad region, is located in the western part of Kottayam district adjoining Vembanad Lake. The name Kumarakom is derived from the words "kuminja" and "akam", which