The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
New Delhi: The Yamuna continued to rise steadily in the city, touching 206.48m by 9pm on Tuesday. The Central Water Commission (CWC) now expects the water to reach its highest point on Wednesday morning by when it should rise another metre to about 207.30m. CWC had to revise its earlier …
New Delhi: As the water level in Yamuna yet again started rising, Monday saw the irrigation and flood department issue warnings and make announcements to evacuate in jhuggi clusters along the river fringes and in low-lying areas. With nearly 7.5 lakh cusecs water discharged from Hathanikund Barrage on Monday, Delhi …
Breach May Check Rising Water Level But Flooding Around Games Village Worries Govt New Delhi: Early on Monday morning, Hathnikund released the highest amount of water that it has released in the past 100 years. For three hours at a stretch, the barrage saw 7,44,507 cusecs water passing through its …
Ravish Tiwari While the severe rainfall deficit in the upper Yamuna basin last year has been handsomely compensated this year, it has come with a rider of its own. The normal rainfall in the basin has brought with it flood threats ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the capital and …
With the decline in the rainfall activities over the NE region during the past about one week, the Brahmaputra is receding almost all over the State indicating an improvement in the overall flood situation in the State. As per the evening flood bulletin of the Central Water Commission (CWC), it …
The overall flood situation in the Upper Assam districts has shown signs of slight improvement, while the situation in the Middle and Lower Assam districts of Morigaon and Dhubri is seemed to be grave. The mighty Brahmaputra still continues to flow above the danger level (DL) throughout the State even …
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it. The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 10, 2010, 1:21 IST India is set to witness a historic rise in power generation this year, with the current heavy rainfall continuing its upward trajectory and feeding the country
Barrage Releases Over 6L Cusecs New Delhi: If heavy rain threw Commonwealth Games work out of gear, there is worse to come. Starting Friday, the capital could witness its worst flood in 22 years, with the 6 lakh cusecs of water released by the Hathnikund barrage on September 8 reaching …
Continuing its protest over the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram power project on the Godavari river in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Orissa government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the Centre
Dennis Marcus Mathew ALAPPUZHA: The Rs.1,840 crore-Kuttanad Package, said to be among the largest financial packages sanctioned to a single region, was launched by Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan at the Mankombu Mini Civil Station here on Sunday. The package to ensure overall development of the region and its people …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday suggested that the Central Water Commission explore the possibility of resolving the Palar water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh through negotiations. A Bench of Justice Mukundakam Sharma and Justice Anil R. Dave was hearing a suit filed by Tamil …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Centre has justified in the Supreme Court the grant of clearance for the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh, and said protection against submergence would be ensured. In its response to the suit filed by Orissa seeking suspension of work on the Polavaram Indira Sagar Project, …
Contrary to the common perception, the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has no role to play in construction of small hydro power projects but comes into the picture only in case of construction of big dams, Minister of State for Water Resources, Vincent H Pala, clarified. Talking to this newspaper, …
New Delhi: In a minor but temporary relief, the level of Yamuna in the capital is likely to go down slightly by noon on Thursday. After the Okhla Barrage had started releasing more water since Wednesday afternoon, the level stabilised at 205.95m through the day. However, the bad news is …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh reiterated today that the final approval for diversion of forest land for Polavaram (Indira Sagar) project is subject to compliance of several conditions by the Andhra Pradesh Government and the user agency concerned. In a letter to Chief Minister …
T. RamakrishnanCHENNAI: The Monitoring Committee of the Cauvery River Authority will meet in New Delhi on August 24 against the backdrop of rising deficit in receipt of Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu.The present storage position of reservoirs in the Cauvery basin is one of the items on the agenda of …
