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 Kaleghagh Dam is located at the Simdega district of Jharkhand. The dam was constructed in 1980 as a minor irrigation project of the irrigation department with the aim of irrigating land of the Simdega block, where three villages-Bernibera, Bara Barpani and Bhudhratoli were completely submerged for the dam. Intrestingly, …
Measures will be taken before the monsoon sets in, says Commissioner WHAT A MESS!: A storm water drain choked with garbage and plastics waste on Goods Shed Road in the city. The Corporation plans to desilt canals before the onset of monsoon. COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is planning measures to …
Floods in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina were made worse by a channel dug by a US government agency, according to testimony heard by a federal court. The hearing, in which the government is being sued for allowing the channel to be built, could lead to payouts to hundreds of …
- Embankment protecting town not repaired in five decades OUR CORRESPONDENT The shanties that have come up illegally on the embankment of the Torsha near Cooch Behar town. Picture by Main Uddin Chisti Cooch Behar, May 7: The embankment that protects Cooch Behar town from the swelling waters of the …
With diminished rice harvests, seawater seeping into aquifers and islands vanishing into rising oceans, Southeast Asia will be among the regions worst affected by global warming, according to a report scheduled for release on Monday by the Asian Development Bank. The rise in sea levels may force the sprawling archipelago …
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 …
