Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Farmer Prasanta Bhoi was getting ready for dinner when he heard a loud sound. It was that of water moving, and growing louder. “It became a roar, like that of a massive wave. Before I could react, I was swept off my feet by water that rose up to my …
Ranchi, Sept. 28: The Jharkhand and Bengal governments have agreed to set up a joint committee to monitor the release of Subernarekha and Kharkai waters and minimise flood threats. The Bengal government is also ready to pay its share of funds, around Rs 19.5 crore, for the interstate Subernarekha Multipurpose …
Himachal Pradesh government on Monday decided to monitor lean-period water discharge in the rivers from hydro power project on a real time basis and use geo-informatics space applications for photo monitoring of dumping in all upcoming projects in the state. The government decided for real time montioring after a meeting …
India can go ahead with work on other components of dam: Court of Arbitration In a setback to India in its dispute with Pakistan over the Kishenganga project in Jammu and Kashmir, the Court of Arbitration has restrained New Delhi from undertaking any permanent dam works on or above the …
Heavy rains have wreaked havoc in eastern Uttar Pradesh leaving 28 people dead, while the water level in major rivers is rising. While 18 people were killed in incidents of wall and house collapse in Jaupur district, 10 deaths were reported from Mirzapur district which received 120 mm and 150 …
Scientists say more tremors overdue in region GANGTOK, 25 SEPT: Geologists in Sikkim warn that another earthquake in the region might lead to topographical and morphological changes in the region and may even affect the course of Teesta, the major river flowing through this region. Even as the state is …
There is an enormous potential for exploiting hydroelectric power in Himachal Pradesh, but implementation needs political and administrative support NATURE has compensated hill states with vast hydropower potential in lieu of the sound agricultural system that is available in the plains. If Arabs have oil, Himalayan states in India have …
The Patna High Court has directed the Centre to set up a tribunal for the settlement of the Sone river water dispute between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, especially, on the question of water sharing from the Rihand basin. Rihand is a tributary of Sone. A division bench of the court, …
Accumulating evidence shows that the planet is warming as a response to human emissions of greenhouse gases. Strategies of adaptation to climate change will require quantitative projections of how altered regional patterns of temperature, precipitation and sea level could cascade to provoke local impacts such as modified water supplies, increasing …
As a child, Adeline Smith, an elder in the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe who grew up along the Elwha River, saw how a hulking concrete dam choked off one of the most prolific salmon runs on earth. Some 300,000 salmon, some weighing up to 99 pounds, once migrated from the …
It is often said that if you see someone in the Lion City (Singa-pura) with oriental features and in good humour, he or she must be either a Filipino or a Filipina. The average Singaporean does not emote freely. They ensure their intentions are not misinterpreted; rarely do they smile, …
Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in Cairo on Saturday. Egypt has been worried over changes to colonial-era treaties since Nile basin nations, …
Siliguri, Sept. 16: The Trinamul and Congress members of the Teesta Barrage Project (TBP) monitoring cell have decided to speak to land-losers in an attempt to persuade them to withdraw cases they have filed over “inadequate compensation”. Around 150 cases have piled up since the process of acquisition began in …
Realising that illegal mining from the Ravi in Kathua district is posing a threat to the road and rail bridges on the Jammu-Pathankot road, the Kathua Deputy Commissioner has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC near the river. Zahida Khan, Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, told The Tribune over the phone that …
THE three-year-old peaceful protest of Mavla taluka residents against the laying of a water pipeline turned violent on August 9 when three farmers were killed in police firing. Residents of 75 villages of the taluka in Pune are angry over the Maharashtra government’s decision to lay the pipeline from the …
FOR the past two years 1,500-odd families in a small town of Tripura have not received a modest drinking water supply. Reason: a dispute over water withdrawal from the Feni river, the international border between India and Bangladesh. Though the Feni passes through Sabroom, the town entirely depends on groundwater. …
There is no sign of floods abating in Odisha. In the space of a fortnight, the number of people affected by the deluge in the Mahanadi river, the state's largest riverine system, increased from one million to 2.2 million on September 13. Two-thirds of the state's 30 districts are affected.
From drawing for industrial purpose, says R. Nallakannu The Tamirabarani river water resources should be protected from drawing for industrial purpose. The natural resources of water had to be conserved for the public for drinking and secondly, supply of water from perennial water bodies should be made to farm lands …
ITANAGAR: Scientists at GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development (GBPIHED) here have discovered two new species of fish in rivers of Arunachal Pradesh. “The discovery of two new species of catfish - Erethistoides Senkhiensis and Glyptothorax Dikrongensis was made by the institute’s staffers Lakpa Tamang and Shivaji Chaudhry …
The Orissa government on Sunday started airdropping of relief materials in the flood marooned in Puri district, even as the official death toll in the current high flood reached 16. Over a dozen people who were swept away in the strong current are yet to be traced. Sonepur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, …
