Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of North East Eco Development Society Vs The State of Assam & Others dated 17/03/2025. In response to the direction given by the HC on December 18, 2024, an affidavit was filed on behalf of the government of Assam, Department of …
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has taken up a project to lay a mastic asphalt coat on all motorable roads in the city proper before Puja. According to civic engineers, laying bitumen on the surface is the cheapest way to metal a road. Bituminous roads are good in dry weather. …
A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.
Nashik: Atleast 225 mcft water from the Nandurmadhmeshwar dam near here was flown away after a hole developed in it, official sources said today. The 100-year-old dam, which was renovated by the state government last year, developed a hole yesterday resulting in water-logging in nearby fields, causing threat of water …
There was a time when desert in India was synonymous with the Thar in Rajasthan. But the sands have flown across—unchecked and uncontained—and taken over parts of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as they advance by half a kilometre every year. There would soon be more contenders on …
The Airports Authority of India will undertake a Rs 30-crore project to solve the waterlogging problem at the city airport. The project is based on the recommendations of Jadavpur University
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since …
Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture. Badly affected by soil salinity and waterlogging, agriculture here means a single crop in a year and that too only in soil having low salt deposits. This isn
In the present study, efforts have been made to identify and map areas affected by various soil degradation processes in Hanumangarh district of western Rajasthan. Soil degradation processes were identified by using IRS-1B satellite image of the year 1998, SOI topsheets, ground truth verification and soil studies.
This paper by CGWB on effective management of available ground water resources calls for an integrated approach, combining both supply side and demand side measures. Says that urgent action is needed to augment the ground water in the water stressed areas. However, focus on development activities must be balanced by …
Invitation To Dengue As 86 Cases & Three Deaths Reported In Gurgaon Gurgaon: The spread of dengue continues unabated in the Millennium City. With 86 cases and three deaths reported so far this season, more and more questions are being asked about the pathetic infrastructure and poor sanitation conditions behind …
Asha P. Nair Rain would have been an entirely different experience, if not for the water-logging and overflowing that drowns the city each time there is a downpour. But, there is hope. After a long gap of 15 years, the Amayizhinjan canal, which has turned into a dump-pit of the …
The root cause for the floods is choking and blocking of natural drains and `infrastructure development'. A typical example is the monstrosity called MRTS that has killed Buckingham canal as a flood carrier, says M G Devasahayam T h f s he oft-heard refrain in the armed orces runs thus: …
Flooded roads, overflowing drains and inundated villages the monsoon is spreading havoc across the coastal districts in the State. The govt is struggling to limit the damage 1070 toll-free telephone number for any rain-related information in Chennai. It is linked to the round the-clock control room at the office of …
As the North-East monsoon became vigorous over coastal Tamil Nadu and active over interiors of the State, it has wreaked havoc in many parts and killed 13 people till Friday. A depression has been formed in the Comorin region and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts more rains in the …
Chhatarpur: The ill managed drainage system causes the drains to overflow even after light rain in the district headquarter Chhatarpur. Torrential rainfall has been registered in the district headquarter and adjoining areas in the afternoon on Sunday. The roads were deluged and drains swollen after the downpour for half-an-hour. People …
Traditionally agriculturalists of western Madhya Pradesh had adopted practices that made most use of the soil moisture and conserved the ecosystem to ensure a sustainable output. However, from the decade of the 1970s a more intensive agricultural system was introduced involving the use of hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and higher …
Lucknow: A choked Ghiyasuddin Haider (GH) Canal overflowed following heavy rains that lashed the state capital on Thursday, leaving many areas inundated even as municipal officials were left redfaced. Significantly, it were some of the areas in and around Mall Avenue, where the GH Expressway is nearing its completion, which …
The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department had decided to undertake a project of setting up high-raised platform tubewells in different areas of South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, that had been ravaged by the cyclone Aila in May this year. The project could not take off, as most of these areas, …
Heavy rains last night caused severe waterlogging in many areas of the city, throwing life out of gear for the citizens who woke up to the horrors of an artificial deluge in the morning. The RG Baruah Road and localities on both sides, especially areas like Anil Nagar and Tarun …
