Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Following heavy rains in the last two days, the Surendranagar district is facing floods. A number of villages in the district have been marooned and more than 4,000 villagers have been evacuated to safer places. Meanwhile, the Government machinery has been carrying out relief and rescue operations in the affected …
NEW DELHI: Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Wednesday criticised the Bihar government for failing to plug the breach in the Kosi river that caused devastating floods in the State earlier this month. Briefing reporters on the achievements of his Ministry in the past four and half years, …
NEW DELHI: The Department of Social Work at Delhi University which has been actively involved in relief operations in some of the flood-ravaged districts of Bihar has now come up with a long-term volunteer-based intervention. The Department has launched its long-term relief and rehabilitation project,
A Planning Commission panel set up by PM Manmohan Singh has said Rs 25,000-30,000 crore would be needed to rehabilitate those affected by the Kosi floods and urged the government to seek the assistance of multilateral funding agencies. The plan panel
Weeks after tragedy, they were still trying to make up their minds: S.C. Jha Needed: Rs.25,000 crore-Rs.30,000 crore package for rehabilitation, reconstruction World Bank, IMF assistance sought NEW DELHI: The Special Task Force on Bihar in the Planning Commission criticised the lack of coordination between the Centre and Bihar government …
The water in his ground floor house has already covered his chairs and dining table. So Vikash Ranjan Sinha, a grocery shop owner in Madhepura, moved up to the first floor with his octogenarian parents, wife and three children, including an infant. They have been there for the past week- …
Once again the army shows how much can be done against the odds, whatever the emergency WHERE there were no roads, they found a way. When the boats sprang leaks, they found innovative ways to plug them. When people needed succour, they were the first to arrive. This is the …
IN the tsunami of December 2004, people heard a strange, deep rumbling before columns of the sea came in. In 2008, the people of north Bihar had no such warning. The river was silent and swift, rising from a deceptive two feet to nearly eight feet in a matter of …
THE Kosi is often called Bihar's "river of sorrow" as it has a* I propensity to create displacement and despair for millions I regularly. But what if the misery and devastation was more a result of human folly rather than the river's fury? The floods this year have inundated 16 …
Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) has initiated a long-term relief and rehabilitation project, University for Development Action and Integrated Learning, for the flood-hit people in Bihar. The project is expected to be on for the next six to 12 months. The project has twofold objectives
- How to turn the river of sorrow into a river of hope N.K. Singh The author is a Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Every new report about the devastation caused by the river Kosi only heightens our anxiety
>> The Bihar government will set up a community radio station, the first for farmers in the state. Decks have been cleared for setting up the community radio station following clearance by the central government and approval of funding for it. Bihar
Planning Commission designs Rs 27,000 crore package for Bihar bihar can become the next agriculture hub if the Planning Commission has its way. A special cell for Bihar set up in the Planning Commission is considering extending Rs 27,000 crore to boost the state
Centre and state trade blame over floods The swollen Kosi river breached its banks in upstream Nepal and brought grief to north Bihar. By government count, 90 people died in the floods, but unofficial reports put the toll at more than 1,000. More than three lakh people were marooned. Even …
Did the Kosi really change its course this time? Ask the Nepali citizens near Kushaha - where the river breached the embankment - and they would say 'yes', as the Kosi barrage near Hanumannagar (Nepal) was not opened this year for the natural (read man-made) outflow of the swelling river. …
The fishes are gasping, not out of the water this time. Rather in the water itself! The womb of the mythological Virgin River (popularly known as Kosi Maiya) is proving to a graveyard for children this time. It is not at all a flood, rather it is a catastrophe or …
NEW DELHI Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a Rs 8,922 crores financial package to restructure the areas devastated by the recent floods in Bihar. Earlier, the PM had sanctioned Rs 1,000 crores for the flood relief in the state.
BY AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI As it dithers to take any action against irrigation minister Vijendra Prasad Yadav, the NDA government in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar has appointed a judicial commission to probe the breach in Kosi embankment, which resulted in unprecedented floods in the state. Former chief justice …
