IIT Guwahati has developed an emergency management information system for Assam, a web-based tool to aid the disaster management authorities at the block level by equipping them with all kinds of information for rescue and relief.

This was revealed today by the head of the Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Chandan Mahanta, at a programme on Media Orientation Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduc

Chennai: Imagine a Chennai city where well-known, low-lying residential areas Velachery, Madipakkam and Kotturpuram may permanently be submerged by sea water. The Napier bridge may be seen rising directly out of the sea, while the mouth of the river Cooum is pushed inland to open into the sea before the Napier Bridge. Island Grounds may cease to exist.

Pseudo bridges affect the river's ability to meander

UDAIPUR: This is yet another test for the 400-year-old Fathesagar lake in Udaipur. The safety and stability of this lake is said to be uncertain due to the unscientific construction of Vibhuti Park' in the "toe" portion of the dam. Fatehsagar is the largest of the lake system of Udaipur and holds about 427 mcft of water now.

Greater Noida: The closing session of Pan IIT 2010 Conclave on 'Building a sustainable future: The Green Society' saw global leaders speak on the way forward to build a green global society that could further sustain the transformational growth, at Expo Mart in Greater Noida on Sunday.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of Planning Commission, said, "There has to be a global agreement on t

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will release the conservation and action plan for Ganga river dolphins at the second meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in New Delhi tomorrow.

NGRBA expert member R.K.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigme Y Thinley on Sunday lauded the role of the Indian Institutes of Technology and spoke of IITians as

New Delhi: The Ganga will be pure and free of pollutants by 2020, the Centre promised before the SC on Friday.

Without dwelling on the past when nearly 1,000 crore was spent under the failed Ganga Action Plan initiated in the late 1980s, attorney general G E Vahanvati assured a Bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar that National Ganga

University and colleges in the state have been asked to replicate the

The World Bank has agreed to provide $1 billion for the Mission Clean Ganga being implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for restoring the