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 …
The most devastating feature of Kosi, Bihar's sorrow, has been its ruthless course shifts. In the last 200 years, it has moved westwards by as much as 110 km averaging some 0.5 km every year. Up to the beginning of the 12th century BC, it was flowing through the eastern …
A ban on logging will be imposed in the Jinsha river basin in the Yunnan province of China. The authorities have planned to launch a reforestation drive to check floods in the future. Massive floods have wrecked havoc in China in the past few months. Earlier, a similar ban on …
Despite the claims made by the Chinese authorities about an improved flood management system, the floods in northeast China have killed 2,000 people and left 14 million people homeless. Analysts believe that the situation would worsen if the Three Gorges Dam on the river Yangtze is built. Though the authorities …
AFTER visiting the flood areas of eastern Uttar Pradesh, the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said India is going to take up the issue of floods with Nepal as most of the rivers which flood northern parts of India originate from there. He further informed that he had a word …
NORTH BIHAR. The people here have resigned themselves to their fate. Theirs' is a waterworld, trapped almost perpetually amidst the swelling waters of Kosi, the "sorrow of Bihar". Though floods are not rare here, this year has been the worst. And the people, with their food and drinking water supplies …
WE ALL live downstream when it comes to facing hardships. People upstream usually create problems for those living downstream. If water laden with pesticides makes its way into the Yamuna and ends up in the livers and body fat of the literati and glitterati of the nation residing in Delhi, …
The Punjab government in Pakistan has allocated Rs 4.4 million for flood protection arrangements, which will include services of the Pakistan Army. According to Chaudhry Shaukat Daud, Punjab relief and revenue minister, the government had made available Rs 2.8 million to the Pakistan Army for repairing of motorboats and procuring …
the landmark for Venice may also be its nemesis. The floods that submerge Venice's streets, with which the city is identified with, may drown this historical city one day. Floods have of late become more frequent. In early 1980s, St Mark's Square - the city's lowest point - was flooded …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US $100 million loan to Pakistan for a flood protection project. The loan will be used for building embankments, spurs and flood retention and dispersion structures and also to plant trees, shrubs and reeds along river banks to save them from erosion. …
Pakistan has planned to hold discussions with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a US $22.8 million flood fighting project. The project is a part of Pakistan's initiative to combat the havoc caused by on-going floods in the country. The country is also expected to launch two projects costing US …
after the recent two waves of floods, the overall situation in Assam continues to be grim. There has been reports of 29 major breaches in the Brahmaputra valley. The Kaziranga National Park, which is submerged under water, has caused concern as loss to wildlife is feared. Addressing a press conference …
it is again time for the monsoons to strike Delhi. Again, as before, the government of the capital city of India is unprepared to check flooding in low-lying areas ( pushta ) around the Yamuna. The excuse that the Delhi government's flood and irrigation department give is that, they do …
AN ALLOCRION of Rs 48.7Q crore has been made by the government of Haryana to execute flood contrAschemes in various parts of the state. Minister of state for irrigation, Attar Singh Saini, recently told mediapersons that these schemes would pay special attention to water logging and erosion caused by flood …
MUCH water has flown under the bridge ever since the Flood Action Plan (FAP) - jointly developed by the World Bank (WB) and the Bangladesh government - was launched in 1988 in Bangladesh. The FAP can be fruitfully implemented only if its coordinators succeed in involving the people: this verdict …
IN A dozen villages in the Khem Karan sector (Amritsar district), bordering Pakistan, August 5 was a day of festivity. That day the villagers had completed a kind of dream project: a 2-km-long anti-flood bund on the Sutlej with their own labour. "We have done in 4 months whht the …
NOT all floods in Bangladesh are "bad"; there are "good" floods as well, and only the Bangladeshis can distinguish between the 2 to make the best use of them. This is the message that they are endeavouring to convey to the World Bank (wb), which has recently come up with …
WITH the flood situation in the North- east taking a turn for the worse during the monsoons, the 3 master plans for flood control are being assessed for updating. Slated for upgraclation are master plan part 1 for the main stem of the Brahmaputra river, master plan part 2 covering …
Chinese authorities are gearing up to improve precautionary measures against disasters. Faced with a rainy season which has left 1,179 people dead so far, China has drafted its first flood control law. Yang Qian of the ministry of water resources said the law, which will be submitted to the National …
AS EUROPE sticks its snorkel out of the muddy and deep waters of the continent's most devastating floods this century, the efficacy of its dykes comes under pained introspection. Cutting across the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium is a realisation that the continent's much-praised flood control practices may be soft …
ASSAM's Barak valley dam project will reduce the Sylhet region of Bangladesh to a sandy waste, screams the Khaleda Zia government of Bangladesh. Given a chance, the Zia regime would have the Rs 2,000 crore multi-purpose project sink into oblivion. Bangladesh is beseeching Japan's Overseas Economic Corporation Fund (OECF) not …
