The Guwahati East Division of the Water Resources Department (WRD) has proposed diversion of the Guwahati Refinery channel and partial diversion of Bamunimaidam flash flood through the Bondajan Sluice Gate at an estimated cost of Rs 293.67 lakh, including the PWD part and excluding the railway part.

Unabated earth-cutting in the hills in Batahghuli area of Panjabari has laid bare the lack of administrative and political will in checking vandalism on priceless natural resources.

Saurashtra was flooded since rainwater could not drain THE state highway between Viramgam and Surendranagar towns in Gujarat presents a stark contrast. On one side is a carpet of green fields for miles, and on the other, decaying jowar and cotton crops, at places submerged in water. The 60 km highway itself remained under water for three days in mid-September. The contrast makes

Notwithstanding the district administration

Speakers at a discussion yesterday stressed the need for setting up an integrated water management project to avert water-related hazards, including waterlogging problem.

Agronomists say that water logging, salinity, and non-agricultural uses are squeezing Pakistan's precious arable lands and posing serious threat to the agriculture sector and nation's food security.

Narail town and its surrounding low lying areas were inundated due to heavy downpour.

Working class people are confined to their respective houses as they have no work. The sufferings of the destitute and slum dwellers know no bounds.

Though the Aman cultivators are happy for heavy rainfall, the owners of fish 'ghers' and the cultivators of monsoon crops are very much disappointed.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages.
In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported deaths, most of them children.