The Punjab police on Wednesday, interrogated former chief minister Prakash Singh Badal in connection with a multi-billion rupee scam in the state irrigation department. There are allegations that key
Concepts of environmental conservation and management are directly linked to the practice of development. Development has been seen as not only an instrument to increase production, but also to remove poverty. But anti-poverty schemes in India have not been sustainable and are conditioned by the kind of finance available for their implementation.
Strange though it might sound, elected representatives of the Capital's citizens themselves are playing a role in the water and power crisis in Delhi. While it is the single point contractors who are
Encouraged by the success of its check dams that have helped increase the water level in the campus area, Jawaharlal Nehru University has submitted a proposal to the Union Ministry of Water Resources
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar has said the controversial 2400 MW Tehri Hydel project should not be built unless the affected people get suitably rehabilitated, Patkar, who was in
The work for the new Anjarakkandy drinking water supply project, envisaged by the Pondicherry administration to provide drinking water to its Mahe region, will start shortly, the Minister for Health
Karnataka has failed to respond favourably to Andhra Pradesh's request for release of water from Almatti reservoir to meet the drinking water needs of the lower riparian State, the Major Irrigation
With water level in Vaigai dwindling every passing day, Madurai city in Tamil Nadu and its peripheries are likely to face a major water crisis this summer. Though the district administration and