Former deputy speaker Ramachandra Panda will launch a nine-day padayatra from Kashinagar tomorrow to create awareness among the pepole about the need of Mahanadi- Rushikulya-Bansadhara river linking project .

For a long time, Panda has been demanding a barrage on Mhanadi river at Subalaya to link dry Rushikulya river through a canal .

Three years have passed since the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) gave its final award on inter-State sharing of the river waters.

Kerala on Tuesday said neighbour Tamil Nadu has neither riparian nor constitutional right to challenge its law restraining the state from raising the height of Mullaperiyar dam from 136 feet to 142 feet.

India and Bangladesh today launched their crucial two-day talks to hammer out a deal on sharing of waters of Teesta river, with Dhaka favouring an "interim agreement" on the issue if it is not possible to reach a long-term pact.

The Secretary-level talks opened at the state guest house of Meghna this morning, a Water Resource Ministry spokesman told PTI.

BHUBANESWAR: Union Water Resources Secretary UN Panjiar today revived the controversial river inter-linking issue saying the project would increase the irrigation potential by utilising surplus flood water.

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NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Centre to review the Ken-Betwa river-linking project in Madhya Pradesh in view of the ecological implications.

In a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Ramesh suggested that it

Reacting to the report in The Indian Express (River interlinking project too costly, scrapped: Minister; December 3), the Ministry of Water Resources has said that it is

The government on Wednesday told Parliament that it has dropped the plan to interlink the country's Himalayan and peninsular rivers saying that it entails an expenditure of Rs 4.4 lakh crores, which the government would not be able to afford.

The UPA government has scrapped its predecessor NDA government