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 …
1963: At eastern embankment at Dalwa in Nepal 1968: At western embankment at Jamalpur 1971: Collapse of Bhatania Approach Bund in Supaul 1980: In the eastern embankment in Saharsa. 1984: In the eastern embankment at Navhatta in Saharsa 1987: In the western embankment at Samani and Ghonghepur in Saharsa 1991: …
JORHAT, Sept 23: State Water Resources Minister Prithibi Majhi has made a case for the application of modern, foolproof techniques to tackle the floods and erosion problem in the State. Interacting with reporters here this evening after his visit to the flood-ravaged Majuli subdivision, Majhi, who succeeded Bharat Chandra Narah …
JAMMU, Sep 22: Speaker Legislative Assembly Tara Chand monday convened a meeting of officers of PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control to review the progress made by them in completion of various ongoing development works in Khour block. Among others, Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control, V. K. Abrol, Ex.Ens. of …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Indian and Nepal governments have given the green signal to the construction of two mega dam projects to help rein in the tumultuous Kosi river. These two dams, called the Saptakosi and Sumkosi projects, will together provide 4,000 MW of electricity and will be …
BY AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI As it dithers to take any action against irrigation minister Vijendra Prasad Yadav, the NDA government in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar has appointed a judicial commission to probe the breach in Kosi embankment, which resulted in unprecedented floods in the state. Former chief justice …
Business Standard / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 0:06 IST Can India learn some lessons from China in disaster management? The answer may not be wholly in the affirmative because the track record of that country in this field is not entirely impeccable. But one of the recent Chinese moves …
DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 2:47 IST We were so greedy for land, we killed the very channels that prevented rivers from flooding. This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar, where Kosi has swollen to expand across the state seem to have …
Gargi Parsai Saptakosi, Sunkosi will help to tame Kosi Prachanda will arrive in India on Sunday India will request Nepal for logistics and security NEW DELHI: With a sense of urgency, India will take up with Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) the issue of construction of the Saptakosi …
Overall flood situation in the State has improved a little today with the improvement in the weather condition. However, the water levels of the rivers are receding at a very slow rate, said sources in the Water Resources Department (WRD). The National Highway 31, which is under the floodwaters of …
The overflowing Kosi had, as of end-August, wreaked destruction on more than three million people living in north and east Bihar. A field visit reports on the misery of the affected, haphazard rescue efforts and criminal exploitation of the uprooted. The immediate task is to improve relief operations and then …
The breaching of embankments in the upstream areas of the Kosi river, in Kusaha village in Nepal, has resulted in yet another round of floods in north Bihar, in the districts of Supaul, Saharsa, Araria, Madhepura, Katihar and Purnia. The disaster this time is much larger than usual. More than …
Kosi, the river of sorrow of Bihar, is in the news. The news is really bad. As long expected by the professinals, embankment has breached. Fifty thousand persons in Nepal and 2.5 million in Bihar are experiencing the fury of the Kosi flood. Embankments are no solution to the flood …
K. Balchand Nowhere to go: A goods train halting at a station in flooded North Bihar on Wednesday. The station, where many people have taken refuge, is completely cut off from the rest of the State. PATNA: With flood waters swamping more areas in Bihar, the race is to prevent …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:18 IST Bihar seeks Rs 1,000 crore and 100,000 tonnes of foodgrain immediately. Work to fill the nearly two-and-a-half kilometre breach in the Kosi barrage embankment has begun with the help of initial supplies from the Farrakka barrage. The breach has caused …
The caretaker government yesterday asked for urgently undertaking the long-neglected Eastern Bypass-cum-Flood Control Embankment construction project to protect the eastern part of the city from floods. A high-level inter-ministerial meeting, presided over by Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed, gave the directive as the government considered a package programme for solving waterlogging …
