Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
A source of conflict between Israel and its neighbors for decades, the Jordan River is now depleted by drought, pollution, and overuse. Could the fight to save it forge a path toward peace?
SHAFQAT ALI The three-day talks between Pakistani and Indian officials on the water dispute ended inconclusively on Tuesday as both sides pledged to continue negotiations.
Afzal Khan in Islamabad India and Pakistan on Sunday began a three-day annual meeting of the Indus Water Treaty Commission (IWTC) in Lahore amid Pakistani complaints of treaty violation by India by blocking flow of water from rivers allocated to Pakistan under the Indus Basin Water Treaty of 1960. Top …
HAFQAT ALI India on Sunday agreed to change the design of a Nimoo Bazgo dam, Pakistani officials said, referring to the ongoing three-day meeting on water between officials from India and Pakistan in Lahore.
Pakistan has sought changes in the design of the Nimmo-Bazgo hydropower project being built by India in Jammu and Kashmir even as the two sides agreed at the three-day annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, which started in Lahore on Sunday, to use telemetry and satellite systems to monitor …
The sharing of the Indus waters stands settled by the Indus Waters Treaty 1960, and the nature of the sharing is such that no disputes can arise on this matter. Questions of the conformity of Indian projects to the provisions of the treaty can indeed arise, but the agreement provides …
SHAFQAT ALI ISLAMABAD Pakistan and Indian officials will hold alks on the water issue from March 28 in Lahore, officials here said. The three-day annual meeting of Indus Water Commissioners of Pakistan and India would begin from March 28 in Lahore, a government official said, adding the Indian delegaion will …
Appreciative of the action taken by Bangladesh against Indian insurgent groups operating from its soil, India has assured Dhaka that it would not take any unilateral decision on its proposed river-interlinking project that might affect the neighbouring country. On the controversial Tipaimukh Dam Project also, New Delhi has conveyed to …
With the Tamil Nadu opposition parties, the AIADMK and the PMK, accusing the ruling DMK of not implementing the Hogenakkal drinking water project, using the Cauvery water, the dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is back in the limelight. Focusing attention on the water scarcity situation in the Pennagaram constituency, …
Pakistan, for reasons of its own, has decided to raise water as a major new issue with India. This is an ominous development, perhaps the most ominous ever in the troubled history of the relations between the two countries. If the Kashmir issue were to be miraculously resolved tomorrow, water …
NEW DELHI, 18 MARCH: As the two-day water talks began here, Bangladesh today hoped to reach an interim agreement on the vexed issue of Teesta river water sharing at the meeting being held after a gap of five years while India insisted on sorting out certain technical issues first.
London: Pakistan is reportedly considering to rope in a Pakistan-born London lawyer, Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, in the event it approaches International Court of Arbitration to arbitrate on India
New Delhi: Less than a month after it agreed to the setting up of an empowered committee headed by former Chief Justice of India A S Anand to go into the safety aspect of Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala, the Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday sought to withdraw its consent for …
With Pakistan raising the river water sharing issue during the Foreign Secretary level talks over a fortnight ago, officials here are trying to get to the bottom of the reason behind Islamabad
Close to the Pandai river that runs along the India-Nepal border lies Bikhnathori. The near-dry river bed is full of pebbles. At some distance shine the Himalayan peaks. This seemingly calm village calls itself orphan. Nepali people across the river call its residents water smugglers. The village in West Champaran …
