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ABANDONED BOREWELLS
No huge budget: Actor Madhavan salutes Tamil Nadu IAS officer for turning 1200 abandoned borewells into rainwater harvesting units; water level rises to 5 to 10 feetAn IAS officer repurposed over 1,200 abandoned borewells into rainwater harvesting units that have earned praise from Dhurandhar 2 actor R ...- Bandhwari landfill a photo-op before polls: Gurugram residents living in shadow of garbage dumpResidents of Bandhwari village in Haryana, near one of India's largest landfill sites, face severe issues due to waste mismanagement. Despi...
- Shut down 21st-century black holes of IndiaFatalities and injuries due to 'black holes of India' are not mere 'accidents' but result from poor governance, administrative negligence, ...
- Govt launches 'Catch the Rain-2024' campaign to promote sustainable water management practicesThe Ministry of Jal Shakti launched 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain-2024' to optimize rainwater harvesting and sustainable water manage...
- Robotics experts join rescue operations to save girl in Madhya PradeshRescue operations are underway to save a 2.5-year-old girl who fell into a 300-ft borewell in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district on 20 April....
- Killer borewells: Recent cases of children falling into deadly holesThe girl could not be saved, despite a massive effort by Army and district administration for five days. A huge rock was a major hurdle tha...
- Ruling AIADMK faced first electoral rout in 8 years in 2019In 2019, the AIADMK had little to cheer electorally, as it failed miserably in the Lok Sabha polls, the first major such exercise faced by ...
- Punjab: Kartarpur Corridor bridges Partition gulf as state remembers Baba Nanak's messageAs Sikhs celebrated the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, Pakistan allowed unprecedented access to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartar...
- Sujith Wilson, the 3-yr-old boy trapped in abandoned borewell in Tamil Nadu diesSujith Wilson had fallen into the disused farm borewell while playing near his house in Nadukattupatti on Friday evening, and various centr...
- Why Chennai’s water crisis should worry youCitizens are paying a heavy price for reckless destruction of water bodies, poor planning.
- Students make device to rescue children trapped in borewellsThe Borot device is fitted with a spy strike miniature camera on a robotic arm, which can slide down inside a bore and send live videos to ...
- What India can learn from Hong Kong's sewage systemCity planners realised that the existing water supply systems, which depended on rainwater flowing into a few existing reservoirs, would cl...
- Here's how farmers in Karnataka’s drought-hit districts have increased crop yieldsFarmers with the help of a fresh produce supply chain company and Karnataka government have managed to significantly increase their corp yi...
- Revitalize our aquifers as country is getting ready to welcome monsoonGround water is people's water and is loosely regulated,intentions to bring about a pan India ground water law, governments exercise little...
- Drought forces farmers into Bengaluru slumsThe stories emanating out of the six districts of north-east Karnataka are of despair that even those used to centuries of backwardness and...
- Land acquisition bill: Farmer resentment grows as water runs dry in KolarKolar district — known once for its gold mines, and more recently for its modern, high-yield milk, silk and horticulture production — is re...
- How much water being supplied to Dwarka? Delhi High Court asks DDA, Delhi Jal BoardThe Delhi High Court directed DDA and DJB to provide it with details of current water supply to Dwarka.
- Karnataka's Chief Justice D H Waghela's pro-oppressed moves win many backersKarnataka's Chief Justice D H Waghela is earning for himself a reputation for being a tough judge who wants to see justice done.
- Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon to make the most of monsoonThe Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon is in the process of constructing 130 rainwater harvesting pits across the city so that no water is wa...
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