Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Mumbai With heavy rains wrecking the daily lives of Mumbaikars becoming an accepted feature, the operations at the Mumbai airport also remains one of the areas that is affected when clouds burst over Mumbai every monsoon season. While the city side of the international airport is usually seen flooded after …
The government had completed the construction of 300 feet flood protective wall to protect 2,000 people from floods in Gabari village Mulla Khiel, Orakzai Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata). The project was identified by the community itself in a meeting held with local Political Administration. As for …
On water issues, the performance of the United Progressive Alliance over the last five years and that of the NDA earlier have been quite poor. And yet, there was little possibility of holding them accountable for that track record in the just concluded elections.
Spread over 11 states and comprising 23 sub-basins, the Ganga basin accounts for 50 per cent of the total 40 million hectares of the flood-prone land in the country. This was stated by AK Bajaj, member (project), Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC), while chairing the 40th meeting of the commission …
Floods in India to be avoided using fuzzy logic IF A washing machine can figure out how dirty the laundry is, then it can calculate how long it should wash, how much detergent to add and how much water is needed. This is called the fuzzy logic technology and it …
For some residents in the neighborhoods closest to the fast-rising Red River here, the last-minute announcement by anxious city officials that they would build a second set of dikes to protect the heart of this state
Mumbai The state government has sought Rs 400 crore from the Centre for the ambitious Brihanmumbai Storm Water Drainage (BRIMSTOWAD) project that seeks to alleviate flooding in the city and suburbs. Senior government officials said the request was made at a meeting with Planning Commission member Anwarul Huda. Brihanmumbai Municipal …
S. Ganesan Work on protective structures along Cauvery, Coleroon begins Strong effort: Work under way on building permanent protective structures along the right bank of the Cauvery at Vengur. TIRUCHI: The construction of permanent protective structures along the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers has begun as part of the Rs.253.71-crore flood …
Shillong: Come monsoon. A new flood monitoring system, aided by microwave remote sensing, will come up along the Brahmaputra basin in the North-East to help plan and execute efficient emergency response measures. The centrally-funded project, executed by the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), aims at a new
The breach of the Kosi embankment in Nepal in August 2008 marked the failure of conventional ways of controlling floods. After discussing the physical characteristics of the Kosi River and the Kosi barrage project, this paper suggests that the high sediment content of the Kosi River implies a major risk …
The sanctioning of a pilot project for construction of an embankment at Matmora in Lakhimpur district using the latest geo-fabric technology is a welcome departure from convention. Over the years, the recurring floods and erosion in the State have made it amply clear that the dual menace is unlikely to …
MUMBAI: With the July 26, 2005, floods still fresh in public memory, the civic body continues in its quest for a flood-free Mumbai. The Chitale Committee, set up immediately after the calamity, recommended that the existing network of Storm Water Drains (SWD) be augmented to cater to a rainfall intensity …
With floods continuing to wreak havoc in the State with unfailing regularity, it is time to make a renewed assessment of the situation for putting in place a long-term mechanism to check the menace. Among other things, failure of the authorities concerned to ensure timely completion of repair of embankments …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Malda, Jan. 1: The state irrigation department in Malda is awaiting permission from the Ganga Flood Control Commission to begin a Rs 33 crore anti-erosion work along the river in the border areas.
Rajendra Ratnoo and his entourage visited 70 vulnerable villages and covered 500 km Cuddalore Collector Rajendra Ratnoo on a water walk on Thursday. CUDDALORE: A marathon
Application of hydraulic structures may control the destruction rate of the flood but sometimes they have undesirable effects on some aspects of flood behaviours leading to detrimental outcomes. In the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate the effects of bridges, culverts, groins and drops on inundation extension …
Wetlands perform many essential ecosystem services—carbon storage, flood control, maintenance of biodiversity, fish production, and aquifer recharge, among others—services that have increasingly important global consequences. Like biodiversity hotspots and frontier forests, the world’s largest wetlands are now mapped and described by an international team of scientists, highlighting their conservation importance …
