BHOPAL: Expressing concern over repeated droughts in Bundelkhand region, the two-day convention organised by water man Rajendra Singh in Khajuraho urged the Centre to "reconsider" the controvertial ken-Betwa river linking project. In the times of the climate change and global warming, the convention said, when the rivers are threatened and …
Sunita Narain profiles the man who never took half steps to development and transformed a drought-hit village into a prosperous one back in the 1980s Anna Hazare The first time I met Anna Hazare was in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was travelling in search of answers to how …
LUCKNOW: In an effort aimed at giving an additional dose of strength to the anti-corruption campaign run by India Against Corruption, social activists have called upon people to switch off lights for 10 minutes in the evening on April 9 in Lucknow. Since, dusk sets in late nowadays, the slot …
NEW DELHI: The government has rejected the demand of Anna Hazare to issue an official notification to constitute the draft committee for Lokpal Bill and also rejected the proposal for an outsider to lead the new committee of government and civil society. The protesters announced that Kapil Sibal had conveyed …
Two Right to Information activists in the city have launched an indefinite hunger strike here, marking the first formal support from Tamil Nadu for anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. Hazare (72) who is on a fast-unto-death in Delhi demanding the enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill. C Selvaraj and V Gopalakrishnan …
The civil society represented by NGOs is cashing in on this newfound people power with Anna Hazare as the politicians try to gauge in which direction the wind is blowing. As support swells across the nation to the anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who is seeking tough new anti-graft laws and …
Writes to Manmohan: Tell me a single meeting you called and we did not come. We believe in dialogue and engagement Bolstered by growing support from citizens, who are turning up in large numbers at Jantar Mantar here, anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare, on the second day of his fast, stuck …
Veteran social activist and Gandhian Anna Hazare has written an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In the letter dated April 6, 2011, Hazare has raised many questions and sought the Prime Minister's reply.
Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and present Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (activist) have together drafted a strong anti-corruption law called Jan Lokpal Bill which requires that investigations into any case should be completed within a year and the trial should get …
Pune Social activist Anna Hazare has asked the Lavasa Corporation to give an undertaking to the chief minister stating that water supply to Pune city will not be hurt in the long run by its hill city project, where water from the Varasgaon dam is being diverted. Hazare, here to …
Watershed development is an important component of rural development and natural resource management strategies in many countries. A watershed is a special kind of common pool resource: an area defined by hydrological linkages where optimal management requires coordinated use of natural resources by all users. Management is difficult because watershed …
India is endowed with annual average rainfall of nearly 1,200 mm but a very small proportion of it is managed effectively. The various estimates on potential for rainwater harvesting suggest vast opportunities for mitigating the shortages. However, the socio-administrative measures in vogue do not encourage participation by the beneficiaries. There …
