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 …
PREETI KARMYOGI, NEW DELHI The tourism ministry is working overtime to make cruise tourism a reality. The ministry has chalked out bottlenecks and strategy to deal with each of them on paper. The ministry is also planning to give exciting sops to private partners for development of infrastructure for cruise …
Turkey has boosted the flow of the Euphrates river passing through its dams upstream of Iraq to help farmers cope with a drought after Iraqi complaints, but it is still not enough, a top Iraqi lawmaker said on Saturday. Iraq is mostly desert and its inhabitable areas are slaked by …
Thousands more people in Australia's flood-hit east were told to leave their homes on Saturday as gale-force winds lashed the coast and emergency services said up to 20,000 people had been cut off. One man has died and dozens have been rescued from rising waters after days of rain and …
May 24: The Maoist movement across the borders of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra has increased as the river Godavari dried up. The Warangal superintendent of police, Mr V.C. Sajjanar, said,
Water of the Buriganga and Shitalakhya rivers has become difficult to treat due to high level of pollution, said Dr MA Taher Khandker, director general of Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Development Board at a seminar yesterday.
Leaders of Sylhet Division Development Action Council (SDDAC) yesterday demanded the resignation of Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen, Shipping Minister Dr Afsarul Amin and withdrawal of Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty for their controversial remarks on Tipaimukh Dam who earlier said that the dam on Borak River would …
According to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Narmada water will be provided in Malwa region too to solve the drinking water problem permanently. The state government's efforts are on in this direction, he said. Chouhan visited Village Hirani in Sehore district on Wednesday where intake well is being constructed under …
The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry yesterday recommended that the government legislate against construction on arable land. It asked the land ministry to draft a law and place it before parliament.
The government has been served with a legal notice to take immediate steps to stop encroachment, earth-filling and construction of illegal structures on Buriganga and Turag rivers around Dhaka and Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj. Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) tendered the notice demanding that the authorities concerned take …
Indiscriminate discharge of liquid waste by the industries in and around Konabari industrial zone has ruined a large part of the Turag river and Baimail Jheel, causing immense suffering to residents living on the banks. Industrial liquid waste and black smog created by brick kilns have doubled the sufferings and …
The underground water-level in Thakurgaon and nearby areas have gone down following unplanned lifting of water by deep and shall tube wells to irrigate crop lands. As a result, now the shallow tube wells are even not pumping out waters. The irrigation network in the region is totally dependent on …
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses. A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence …
The biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, can begin construction by year's end after a six-year effort to win regulators' approval, the developer said on Thursday. The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the …
Bangladesh Water Development Board has signed an agreement with National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) Joint Venture for carrying out feasibility study and preparing detailed engineering design of Ganges Barrage Project. The other partner of NESPAK is Development and Design Consultants of Bangladesh. A spokesman of NESPAK said that the Ganges …
Jalandhar Reacting to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi advocating linking of rivers at a recent NDA rally, the SAD today said it has always opposed such a proposal and would register its protest at an
Twenty-five years after the federal government declared a long stretch of the Hudson River to be a contaminated Superfund site, the cleanup of its chief remaining source of pollution began here Friday with a single scoop of mud extracted by a computer-guided dredge. Twelve dredges are to work round the …
End to indiscriminate digging of Dhaka's streets is in sight now as the new government yesterday launched a 'no-dig' pipeline-setting scheme involving a cost of Tk 1465 crore for water supply in the capital using a most modern technology. Implementation of the pilot project styled 'Dhaka Water Supply Development Project' …
