Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
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, …
Flood in north Karnataka region has claimed two lives. While, there was a decline in the release of water into most of the rivers from the dams, flood threat continued to loom over Rivers Krishna and Malaprabha. Belgaum district Sufiyaan Peerzade (12) was allegedly drowned in the Ghataprabha left bank …
Patiala: A day before the hearing in the Supreme Court on the toe wall being constructed by Haryana along the Hansi-Butana embankment, farmers of flood-prone villages, led by leaders of the BKU Ekta (Dakunda), today started a 10-day agitation at Dharmheri village. Carrying banners and placards, the farmers reiterated their …
Governor NN Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah have agreed on setting up a multi-disciplinary Empowered Task Force for Water Management in the state soon. The task force will establish a mechanism for receiving regular reports about all water management-related issues and based on a valid data of groundwater and …
Sept. 5: If Delhi had agreed to share half the Teesta’s waters with Bangladesh against Mamata Banerjee’s wishes, the very purpose of the Teesta Barrage Project, aimed at providing irrigation water to north Bengal and generating electricity, would have been defeated. Environmentalists and river experts have pointed out that if …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has proposed linking the river Rushikulya with the Bansadhara through the Nandini Canal Project to overcome drinking water problem in the areas of the Ganjam district affected by drought frequently. Official sources said the State Government is in touch with the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) …
Chandigarh: The tussle between Punjab and Haryana over the Hansi-Butana canal is set to take another turn after PCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh accused the Central Water Commission (CWC) of changing its stance to Haryana’s advantage. The CWC today claimed that encroachments in the Ghaggar riverbed falling in Punjab’s territory …
Mohali: A day after the farmers suspended their agitation against land acquisition for the Mansa power plant, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh announced that his party leaders and workers would march to the village on September 2, demanding adequate compensation for the farmers as well as their …
The Rajasthan Government's Irrigation Department has created additional irrigation facilities in an area measuring 35,906 hectares across the State at a cost of Rs.490 crore during the current financial year. The department's budgetary outlay of Rs.715.97 crore during 2011-12 for irrigation projects includes Rs.220 crore for Narmada Canal Project, Rs.100 …
BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei on Monday said the departments have been asked to examine the recommendations of the expert committee on revenue enhancing measures and prepare a time-bound action plan for their implementation. To a question from Amar Prasad Satpathy (NCP), Ghadei said the committee had given several …
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh today rejected the preliminary report of the Central Water Commission (CWC) submitted to the Supreme Court. According to the report, the Hansi-Butana canal and toe wall posed no flood threat to the state. “The report seems to have been prepared without any …
The Centre today suggested in the Supreme Court that the dispute over the strengthening of the Hansi-Butana canal should be referred to an expert committee comprising members from Punjab, Haryana and the Central Water Commission (CWC). Punjab, however, opposed the proposal contending that Haryana would complete the strengthening work on …
The Tamil Nadu Government has sanctioned over Rs 115 crore for two projects under the Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restoration and Management programme to modernise irrigation infrastructure in major sub-basins. The projects will benefit farmers in Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Tiruvannamalai districts where irrigation infrastructure covering 1.36 lakh acres …
Slam Punjab govt for playing politics on a ‘non-issue’ Kaithal: From an “inconsequential” toe-wall next to the Hansi-Butana canal, Punjab may now be up against a human wall of a “united Haryana” if the mood at the kisan mahapanchayat in Chika is anything to go by. Haryana, its leaders and …
Just mention the large brown-and-white bird and the residents of Mardi village in Solapur burst out in anger. The district in Maharashtra is one of the few refuges for the rare Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), endemic to the grasslands of India and Pakistan. Of the 30-35 birds remaining in …
Just mention the large brown-and-white bird and the residents of Mardi village in Solapur burst out in anger. The district in Maharashtra is one of the few refuges for the rare Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), endemic to the grasslands of India and Pakistan. Of the 30-35 birds remaining in …
BHUBANESWAR: At a time when there is growing opposition to diversion of Mahanadi water for industrial use, the recommendations of the Expert Committee on Revenue Enhancing Measures have come as a dampener for the Government’s industrialisation drive. Though many of the proposed industries will have to depend on Mahanadi and …
Rajasthan Minister of State for Agricultural Marketing Gurmeet Singh Kunnar has asked the water supply officials of the neighbouring State of Punjab to plug the leakages in Ravi-Beas waters supplied from Harike Barrage to northern parts of the State for irrigation. Mr. Kunnar said during his visit to Harike Barrage …
New Delhi: Assuming charge as the water resources minister, Pawan Kumar Bansal said on Wednesday that the finalization of the national water policy by March 2012 would be his first priority. “We are very keen to meet the March 2012 deadline. My predecessor Salman b h a idid a very …
Demand for water in Porvorim is shooting with new constructions mushrooming all over. The water treatment plant proposed at Saligao to tide over the demand may not provide water throughout. Are residents of Porvorim consuming more water than residents in other urban areas of the State? Such has been the …
