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 …
CIFA calls for 40 per cent grant to promote nature farming As the Lok Sabha elections are round the corner, the Consortium of Indian Farmers’ Associations (CIFA) has urged the political parties to give a promise to the farming community to the effect that they would get a say in …
HC orders notice to Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Kerala Chief Secretary The Madras High Court Bench here on Tuesday ordered notices to the Central Board of Irrigation and Power (CBIP) and the Chief Secretary to the Government of Kerala on a public interest litigation petition to revive Pampa-Achankovil-Vaipar …
The Musiri taluk unit of the Bharathiya Kisan Sangam has resolved to support the political party which promises to link all southern rivers and waive all crop loans until the project is executed. A resolution adopted at the general body of the Musiri taluk unit of the association held at …
Seeking to widen its social base beyond the traditional OBCs, the DMK mooted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for all traditional fishermen on the lines of Kerala and Karnataka, and vowed to work for amendments to dispense with ‘creamy layer’ in reservations. Releasing the party’s Lok Sabha election manifesto, DMK leader …
Before the general elections, the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government has gifted the Malwa region India's first ever river-linking project to solve the problem of water scarcity there. As part of the Narmada-Kshipra link project, Narmada's water has been lifted to 350 metres and through pipelines spread over almost 49 kilometres …
The All India Anna Dravida Munnnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) made clear its ambition for a larger role in national politics by declaring that it would provide a strong, bold and determined leadership in the country. The party’s election manifesto made several national-level promises and appealed to the people to vote for …
Members of the Krishnagiri-based Indian Rivers Knit Movement (IRKM), an NGO creating awareness about the need for inter-linking and networking of rivers, who are on a ‘paadayatra’ from Hosur to Chennai to meet Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, passed through Vellore on Tuesday evening. They were received by the members of the …
Standing Committee on Water Resources (2013-2014) present the Twenty First Report on 'Review of Ganga Flood Control Commission'. The Committee (2008-2009) was the first to take up the subject 'Ganga Flood Control Commission' for detailed examination and report. The succeeding Standing Committees on Water Resources for the years 2009-2010 and …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took stock of works under Narmada-Kshipra Link Project for bringing Narmada water to Kshipra river’s originating point at Indore district’s villages Mundla-Dostar-Ujjaini today. Chouhan worshipped Maa Narmada at the site developed for supplying Narmada water to Kshipra river. The project will be inaugurated soon on …
Buoyed by the successful testing of Narmada-Kshipra Simhasth Link Project, the Madhya Pradesh Government on Sunday announced that rivers Gambhir, Kalisindh and Parvati will be linked with the Narmada. “Gambhir, Parvati and Kalisindh will be linked with theNarmada and a DPR (detailed project report) is under process in consultation with …
Connecting Ken-Betwa To Be First Of 30 Projects Costing 5,60,000cr New Delhi: After almost a decade of political objections and green opposition, the Cabinet is likely to clear on Thursday the ambitious project to inter-link rivers, beginning with the process of connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh. …
Work on the construction of a canal linking three rivers to provide water to the parched regions of two districts has run aground for lack of funds. The third and the fourth phase of work on the 73-km-long flood and stormwater channel, being dug to connect Tamirabharani – Karumaeniyar and …
The river linking project that is aimed at transferring water from surplus rivers to deficit areas, is a national necessity, Union water resources minister Harish Rawat said on Wednesday. Rawat was at the Central Water Commission, Khadakwasla to inaugurate of the annexe building of the National Water Academy (NWA). He …
Being one of the biggest river channelisation project in the country, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has approved a Rs 945.48 crore project for taming the remaining 55 tributaries of the Swan river in Una district. The project, which is expected to reclaim about 6,060 hectares of land, will be …
Team visits delta regions in Tiruchi, Thanjavur, and Tiruvarur districts Farmers representatives sought to impress upon the Central team that toured the delta districts on Tuesday the need for sanctioning relief quickly to all farmers as the drought has had a severe impact. Several farmers also insisted that the Centre …
Amid growing environmental concerns over the river linking project, an NGO has come up with an “eco-friendly” method to connect the water bodies with grids so that states can share the resources according to their requirements. “Interlinking of Rivers project (ILR) is not viable in its present form. We have, …
Land use affects the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate fauna along the river continuum and are hence useful indicators of this stress (Richards et al. 1993; Roth et al. 1996; Hershey & Lamberti 1998; Allan 2004). This knowledge pertains to temperate streams. Such an impact has been scarcely investigated in tropical …
A Bill to provide for nationalisation of inter-State rivers for the purpose of equitable distribution of river waters among the States and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Water governance throughout South Asia has long been dominated by technical perspectives from civil engineering, economics, and international law. Across the region, state actors, scientists, and technocrats have monopolized policy formulation and implementation providing limited space for the expression of legitimate civil society voices and stakeholder interests. In this largely …
Haryana and Punjab have long been at loggerheads over the sharing of river waters. The issue has been brought up time and again but political compulsions do not allow either of the states to go ahead and resolve the matter. The SYL canal has time and again hampered relations between …
