Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
Bangladesh PM and team in Tin Bigha Tin Bigha (Cooch Behar), Oct. 19: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is hopeful that the Teesta water sharing treaty will be signed soon. Hasina said this during a 30-minute stopover at Cooch Behar’s Tin Bigha corridor after a visit to the Bangladeshi enclave, …
Plea filed by Karnataka against 2007 water sharing award The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted to the first week of February 2012, for final disposal, the petition filed by Karnataka challenging the February 5, 2007 final award passed by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT). A three-judge Bench of Justices …
In a rare admission, which will be welcomed in India, China has stated that it will not divert the Brahmaputra. Jiao Yong, vice minister at China’s ministry of water resources, told a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday that although there is a demand among Chinese to make greater use …
The International Court of Arbitration’s interim stay against India doing any permanent construction over Kishanganga riverbed does not make any material difference to the country given the fact that the schedule of construction activities submitted to the Court by India does not envisage permanent construction above the riverbed before mid-2013. …
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that all three appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the final orders of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal be listed for hearing in the third week of October. A three-Judge bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran, Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice H.L. …
Pakistan has rejected the Wuller Barrage engineering design provided by the Indian government on technical grounds, it was learnt. A top level official in the Ministry of Water and Power privy to these deliberations told Business Recorder that the Indian government provided Pakistan with the design of Wuller Barrage a …
The Tamil Nadu government has filed an application in the Supreme Court for a direction to the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal to take up for hearing the petitions seeking ‘guidance and explanation' on the final order passed by the tribunal in February 2007 under Section 5 (3) of the Inter-State …
The Patna High Court has directed the Centre to set up a tribunal for the settlement of the Sone river water dispute between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, especially, on the question of water sharing from the Rihand basin. Rihand is a tributary of Sone. A division bench of the court, …
Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in Cairo on Saturday. Egypt has been worried over changes to colonial-era treaties since Nile basin nations, …
Siliguri, Sept. 16: The Trinamul and Congress members of the Teesta Barrage Project (TBP) monitoring cell have decided to speak to land-losers in an attempt to persuade them to withdraw cases they have filed over “inadequate compensation”. Around 150 cases have piled up since the process of acquisition began in …
THE three-year-old peaceful protest of Mavla taluka residents against the laying of a water pipeline turned violent on August 9 when three farmers were killed in police firing. Residents of 75 villages of the taluka in Pune are angry over the Maharashtra government’s decision to lay the pipeline from the …
FOR the past two years 1,500-odd families in a small town of Tripura have not received a modest drinking water supply. Reason: a dispute over water withdrawal from the Feni river, the international border between India and Bangladesh. Though the Feni passes through Sabroom, the town entirely depends on groundwater. …
The Takam Mising Porin Kebang during its three-day central workshop that concluded on Sunday has resolved to intensify the agitation against big dams in the greater interest of the State and its people. In a statement, the Kebang said that the State Government and the Centre were ignoring the larger …
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned from his two-day Bangladesh visit, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said that the government would work towards arriving at “solutions” acceptable to “all stakeholders” towards resolving the Teesta water-sharing issue. Krishna, who accompanied the PM to Dhaka, said that the government …
Indian negotiators still unaware of West Bengal's special objections to water deal, highly placed sources say Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the West Bengal government assented to a strategic water-sharing agreement with Bangladesh before backing out of it over the weekend — and thus forcing India to resile …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday regretted that India and Bangladesh could not sign the Teesta water sharing deal during his visit to Dhaka, but reaffirmed New Delhi's commitment to ink the accord in the near future. “I have asked the concerned officials to intensify their efforts towards finding a …
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said Bangladesh and India will find a viable formula to resolve the Teesta water-sharing issue with equity and fairness. ‘Water is a very sensitive subject in this region. Unfortunately, this (the deal on sharing Teesta water) is not successful within the time available,’ …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Central government for failing to provide infrastructure facilities to Vamsadhara Water Dispute Tribunal resulting in delay in resolving the long-standing water row between Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. “You are in deep slumber, what will you need to wake up. This …
India will submit its reply regarding environmental impact on River Neelam due to the construction of controversial 330MW Kishanganga hydropower project in the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) today (Wednesday) as was asked by the court during the last hearing held at the August end. During last hearing held at …
Amid frustration over leaving the Teesta water sharing agreement unsigned, visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday assured that both the countries continue discussion towards an acceptable solution. "We have decided to continue discussions to reach a mutually acceptable, fair, and amicable arrangement for the water sharing of the Teesta …
