The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Two combined drinking water supply projects will be completed in municipalities in Coimbatore district, Local Administration Minister M.K.Stalin announced in the Assembly on Wednesday. A combined drinking water supply scheme for Kuruchi, Kuniamuthur municipalities and Kinathukkadavu town panchayat will be completed at a cost of Rs.49.93 crore in December this …
Sri Lankan government has awarded a Malaysian company to build a water treatment plant in Ambatale in the western province. Salcon Bhd's joint-venture company has received the acceptance letter from the government to build the plant which can process 40 million gallons per day. Salcon will design and construct the …
Jain Irrigation Systems is the second-largest drip irrigation company in the world and one of the largest suppliers of ducting to telcos globally. Now, it's eyeing revenues of $1 billion, krishna gopalan Finance minister p. Chidambaram's newfound love for the farm sector
The Rs. 1,334-crore Hogenakkal drinking water project has nothing to do with power generation or irrigation, Tamil Nadu Public Works Minister Durai Murugan said here on Thursday. Asked for his reaction to the former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna's remark that whether the project had provided for power generation or …
Rihon Daimari, PHE Minister, today inaugurated two power plants at Kumbhirgram tea estate and another at Bahadurpur in Cachar in the presence of high officials of the Department, MLAs and the general public. Addressing the gathering at both the places, the minister in said the two plants each with a …
The Centre released some funds for the Swajal Dhara drinking water scheme in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh in April 2004. The money has remained in the bank and has earned an interest of Rs 4.8 lakh. Yet the scheme is still to take off. But for once, it is …
Responding to The Indian Express reports, "UPA mega drinking water scheme is also going down the corruption drain' and "If and where they do get water, it's not safe to drink', published on March 4 and March 5, 2008 respectively, Ministry of Rural Development spokesman S M Khan writes: "The …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants every UPA flagship programme independently audited by an external agency so that the progress report can be put under public scrutiny. The Prime Minister's direction to the ministries concerned came after the The Indian Express reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had severely …
The State Government has geared up all its machinery to face a possible water crisis in summer. A high-level meeting to this effect was held under the chairmanship of Rural Development Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan at the State Secretariat on Thursday. Harichandan directed the officials to initiate steps to provide drinking …
RESEARCH from the US has poured cold water on the common belief that drinking eight glasses of water a day will improve your health. Experts have claimed drinking more water can clear toxins, keep organs healthy, ward off weight gain and headaches and improve skin tone. But these claims are …
Politicians thrive on controversies. Senior BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was in the Chief Minister's chair for just a week, appeared desperate to work up an emotive election-eve campaign when, on March 16, he along with a handful of supporters crossed over to Tamil Nadu in a coracle and demanded …
More than uniting people and finding solutions to their problems through the process of dialogue and statesmanship, the politicians in our country have a propensity to sow discord and vitiate the atmosphere to a point that even simple issues get complicated. And if they smell an election round the corner, …
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Saket Vijay Jolly on Wednesday accused the Delhi Government of failing to provide the people with adequate water and said that while Rs.1,800 crore have been spent in the name of cleaning the Yamuna and a lot of money has also been spent on improving …
With Tamil Nadu's Hogenakkal project on its border with Karnataka becoming a major political controversy between the two States, the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and Union Minister T.R. Baalu, from Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought Central intervention to resolve the issue. …
The latest spark in the tenuous ties between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, already at war over the sharing of the Cauvery waters, is a proposal resurrected from the archives by Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi to tap the Hogenakkal waters for quenching the dry western districts of Dharmapuri and …
