River Linking

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …

100 times worse than Farakka

Bangladesh has denied it is backing up the the river linking project the Indian government has initiated. Speaking to the press on the occasion of informal talks between Nepal and Bangladesh on this issue, said Bangladesh's water resources minister Hafizuddin Ahmed, "The project will also affect upstream nations like Nepal.' …

Stormy meet

AN ISSUE that did not even figure on the original agenda of the Indo-Bangla Joint River Commission's (JRC) 35th meeting embroiled the conference in controversy. The matter pertained to India's much-hyped river linking project and Bangladesh's apprehensions about it. Talks ended with the India admitting that the project was at …

The debate on interlinking rivers in India

India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal systems. Already, the project has raised controversy and debate. Interlinking rivers is now a matter of South Asian proportions. It had to be. After all, India's rivers pass …

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