Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Till a few years ago, women of Bisha Bedi village in Rajasthan’s Barmer district hardly slept at night. Throbbing pain in the neck and the back kept them awake till early morning. It was caused by fetching water over long distances. “We used to wake up at four in the …
JAISALMER: Young people have started looking old due to the increasing fluoride content in water in many villages of Jaisalmer and Barmer districts. This is serious as problem of hunchback and bone related diseases are on rise. Besides, people avoid marrying someone from these villages. Dozens of families in Balu …
Rainfall variability and associated remote sensing indices for vegetation are central to the development of early warning systems for epidemic malaria in arid regions. The considerable change in land-use practices resulting from increasing irrigation in recent decades raises important questions on concomitant change in malaria dynamics and its coupling to …
JAISALMER: Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are collecting thousand years old water samples which have not been recharged, from many parts of the district. The samples are being collected for a study on temperature changes. According to sources, with the help of noble gas present in the …
JAIPUR: The state government has identified 20 districts as focus districts to provide quality medical facilities for reducing infant mortality rate in the state. Most of the focus districts are situated in western Rajasthan including Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur. The other districts are Pali, Sirohi, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Pratapnagar, Banswara, Chittorgarh, …
JAIPUR: The Desert National Park (DNP), one of the largest sanctuaries of the country spread over the twin districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer may get newer territories. A high-powered committee constituted by the ministry of Environment and Forest for the rationalisation' of the park is seriously contemplating on it. According …
JAIPUR: The state government on Thursday claimed that the Supreme Court has allowed it to construct a bridge across the Chambal River near village Makhida in Bundi district. The village, situated along the national highway number-1, falls in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary. The government also claimed the apex court …
Down To Earth finds out how once-parched and barren district of Rajasthan, Barmer now sees development all around, thanks to the flood and rains. A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006.
Once-parched and barren Barmer is turning over a new leaf. About five years ago, Poona Ram, 45, shifted from this desert district of Rajasthan to Gujarat in search of work. He was unable to support his family at a place that could not give him employment. But Poona Ram returned. …
Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday assured adequate funding from the Centre to end water scarcity in Rajasthan, particularly in the border districts including Jaisalmer and Barmer. Ahluwalia along with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot was on a daylong visit to the water project sites …
JAIPUR: The provisional data of Census 2011 for the state shows the districts of Churu and Barmer with negative growth in literacy. While Churu's literacy rate has fallen from 67.59% to 67.46%, Barmer reported a much higher drop from 58.99% to 57.49%. Director, Census Operations, Rajasthan Shubra Singh pointed out …
A major gas pipeline project in Gujarat is almost on the verge of getting derailed due to opposition from Jamnagar Congress MP Vikram Madaan. The Mangala Development Pipeline project is the longest continuously heated and insulated pipeline in the world. Work on 590 kms of pipeline has been completed from …
Jaipur: The EU Ambassador to India, Daniele Smadja on Tuesday visited Malion ki Dhani in Barmer to launch a project on water co-financed by the EU. The visit was also the occasion to celebrate International Women
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said that Cairn never disputed cost recovery of royalty on crude oil production from the Barmer field before August 16, 2010, when Vedanta Resources announced buying of a majority stake in Cairn India. A senior ONGC executive told Business Standard that his company …
Prior permission needed, it maintains; decision by the end of December. Murli Deora For the first time after the announcement of the Cairn-Vedanta deal on August 16, the government today admitted to differences with Cairn over whether the deal required approval under the production sharing contract for the Barmer oil …
Malaria cases continue to rise in the western districts of the state. The number of cases recorded in three western districts was around 11,000 till last week, half of the total cases of 22,000 reported so far in the state. "This year the number of cases reported in the state …
Team from Delhi tours western Rajasthan to check the spread of diseases DNA correspondent After a sudden spurt of malaria reported from western Rajasthan for the past few weeks, teams of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) visited the area to take stock of the situation. According to officials, …
Jaipur: Malaria has registered a steep rise in the western districts of the state. The districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer registered more than a thousand cases last week. In fact, the disease has registered a strong emergence in the Pokhran area of Jaisalmer where two children reportedly died of malaria.
