World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Mansoravar in Mehsana may soon get a facelift
Mehsana in Gujarat may soon get its Mansarovar with a "kar seva" to desilt and clean the 'talav' near Bahucharaji temple on in full swing. Cleaning the Mansarovar lake base is part of the massive
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Hydrogen fuel could widen ozone hole
A hydrogen economy could create bigger, longerlasting ozone holes over the poles, a new study claims. If hydrogen catches on as a non polluting fuel for energy production, leaks from its production
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Assam: water, tourism & a new capital
In Assam surface water has been seen as a problem of flooding and not as a resource for ground water and production of fish and associated activities. Yet, a 1976 World Bank report described, the
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Emerging paradigms in environmental conservation and management
<p>Concepts of environmental conservation and management are directly linked to the practice of development. Development has been seen as not only an instrument to increase production, but also to remove poverty. But anti-poverty schemes in India have not been sustainable and are conditioned by the kind of finance available for their implementation.</p>
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Mysore ryots desperate for rain
The hopes of farmers of Mysore district in Karnataka have been shattered again with the failure of pre-monsoon rainfall for the third consecutive year in the district. Though pre-monsoon showers that
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Nitish launches Rail Neer
The Union railway minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, said that Rail Neer
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Seminar to prepare ground water policy
The Madhya Pradesh state is soon going to have its own ground water conservation policy based on the views of experts in the field. For this, public health and engineering department (PHED) is
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HPCL job for EIL
Engineers India Limited (EIL) has been awarded Green Fuel and Emission Control Project of HPCL's Mumbai refinery. The project has been envisaged to maximise distillate yield and upgrade quality to
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Taps dry, villagers in the pits for water
While Chief Minister Narendra Modi was launching an online system for redressing grievances in Gandhinagar in Gujarat, the women of Nani Katechi, hardly 80 km away, were attending to their most
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Preservation of water resources urged
Speakers at a seminar in Karachi (Pakistan) stressed the need to preserve water resources and conserve fertility of soil. Environment experts said that wetlands faced a variety of threats, primary