River Panel With Strong Powers May Put Paid To CM

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The Union Government has decided to declare the Ganga as

NEW DELHI: Questioning the bona fides of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on their shifting stands over the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village along the Yamuna riverbed in East Delhi, the Delhi High Court on Monday constituted an expert committee to go into the whole

The erosion by the river Teesta took serious turn at village Kalmati under Lalmonirhat sadar upazila with at least 25 houses devoured in the last few days.
The people living in the river-side areas of the village are passing days with grave anxiety as the river is rapidly eroding houses and crop fields, locals people said.

The taskforce on saving the Buriganga river, maintaining its normal flow and navigability submitted its report to the government on Wednesday.

Taskforce Chairman and former chairman of the Privatisation Commission Enam Ahmed Choudhury handed the report to Adviser for Agriculture and Water Resources Dr CS Karim at his secretariat office. Other members of the taskforce were present.

Water experts at an opinion exchange meeting yesterday emphasised the need for involving local people to save the Buriganga river from dying.

Addressing the function, they also demanded protection of the river at its upstream branches from pollution.

M.J. PRABU

Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu.

The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised.

A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.

ERODE: Farmers affiliated to the Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam and Kalingarayan Pasana Sabai protested in front of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board office and later locked it.

NEW DELHI: As hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga were immersed into the Yamuna on Vijay Dashmi day, environmentalists and water conservationists dismissed as