The Australian state Victoria has finally agreed to sign the Murray-Darling Basin national water plan. Victoria agreed to the plan in return for a $1 billion (us $0.9 billion) to upgrade its

Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) executive member Mano Kumar Brahmo today visited the countrys's biggest National Rural Employment Gurantee (NREGA) project at river Swrmanga in Kokrajhar district. The construction of the left and right embankment of river Swrmanga at a cost of Rs 46.22 crore is well in progress.

KRISHNAGAR Less than a month before the panchayat elections begin, the Nabadwip block Trinamul Congress has decided to focus on the issue of erosion along the banks of the Ganga. To register their outrage against the state's inaction in checking river erosion, the Nabadwip Trinamul Congress blocked Nabadwip road on Sunday morning and also stopped the Shantipur-Nabadwip toy train at Maheshganj near Nabadwip.

Political tensions over the disputed Hogenakkal water project have eased, but for how long? PC VINOJ KUMAR & SANJANA report

Recent pictures taken by Google Earth via satellite have confirmed the worst fears of environmentalists. An eight-km stretch of the Bhagirathi river has dried up. The river is shown snaking through the Himalayan mountains as one long, sandy stretch minus any water. Other rivers emanating from the Gangotri glacier, including the Bhilangana, the Assi Ganga and the Alaknanda, all tributaries of the Ganga river, are also drying up. This same dry stretch of the Bhagirathi in 2004, according to Google Earth pictures generated at that time, was one-km-long.

More than 13,000 people were evacuated after sections of the main embankment of China's Yellow River collapsed on March 19. The collapse occurred along the river's southern bank in Ordos city in the

Proper management of rivers in Khulna region demanded Unplanned TRM to cause permanent water logging: seminar Staff Correspondent . Khulna About 40 lakh people of 15 upazilas in Khulna, Satkhira and Jessore will face permanent water logging within two years if Kobadak and Harisree Bhadra rivers, which are about to dry up, are not excavated immediately, speakers at a seminar in Khulna warned Monday.

India's violation of water sharing deal hampers irrigation Raheed Ejaz New Delhi deprives Dhaka of its agreed share of the Ganges water as stipulated by the Gangers Water Sharing Treaty 1996 causing the tributaries to dry up and hampering seriously irrigation in the south-west. India has also not heeded the complaints Bangladesh earlier registered with the Indian authorities.