'No other option': Deadly India floods bare conflicts from hydropower boomFifteen years ago, bulldozers descended on Raini village to build a dam, part of a push by India to increase hydroelectric power. The field...
22 Feb, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
What caused the deadly avalanche in the Indian Himalayas?The incident began on Sunday morning below Nanda Devi, India's second-highest peak. Power minister, R.K. Singh, said an avalanche led to fl...
09 Feb, 2021, 12.08 PM IST
Major reservoirs filled up to 165% of 10-year averageThe live storage, monitored by Central Water Commission, available in 123 reservoirs is 168% of the live storage of corresponding period of...
23 May, 2020, 12.21 PM IST
Buy Edelweiss Financial Services, target Rs 185: Jay ThakkarBuy Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. at a price target of Rs 185.0 and a stoploss at Rs 174 from entry point.
20 Nov, 2018, 09.25 AM IST
Budget 2018 has incentivised unsustainable groundwater use: SANDRPThe water sector activists want the government to acknowledge the reality that groundwater is India's lifeline and it has to be recharged, ...
01 Feb, 2018, 02.56 PM IST
Ken-Betwa river linking project: NGT issues notice to CentreThe NGT was hearing a plea seeking stay on the project on the ground that it lacks environment impact assessment and public consultation in...
06 Nov, 2017, 05.07 PM IST
Will granting legal rights to rivers like the Ganga, change the on-ground situation?For millions, Ganga is sacred, and for millions more, it is the lifeline - providing livelihoods, sustenance, and water for quenching parch...
25 Mar, 2017, 12.50 AM IST
Farakka barrage is a curse for Bihar: ExpertsSingh was addressing an international seminar, organised by Bihar's Water Resources Department, on "Incessant Ganga" on the second day.
26 Feb, 2017, 07.10 PM IST
Environmentalists oppose MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Narmada Yatranvited to be associated with yatra, some environmentalists rejected the offer and slammed state government for working against conservation...
30 Jul, 2016, 05.50 AM IST
Encroachment, river pollution by hydropower projects bigger problems than rafting: ActivistsAs far as problems plaguing the Ganga in Uttarakhand go, environmentalists and locals say rafting is only the tip of the iceberg.
02 Aug, 2015, 10.33 AM IST
Proposed statue of Sardar Patel under NGT radarThe group comprising nearly two dozen activists, have moved the Western Region Bench of the tribunal located in Pune, demanding that the pr...
21 Apr, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Delhi budget: Sewage units idle, but Rs 750 crore to set up moreMore sewage treatment plants to deal with pollution in the Yamuna, and 'beautification' of riverbanks seem to be the government's prioritie...
19 Jul, 2014, 12.16 PM IST
Make Ganga users pay for clean-up: ActivistsGanga can only be saved if all stakeholders are aware of the threats and 40-odd crore consumers who use Ganga in some way or another.
07 Jul, 2014, 11.59 AM IST
Lok Sabha elections: Party manifestos mum on pollution in riversAbout Rs 6,500 crore has been spent on the river in the past 19 years, according to Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan.
09 Apr, 2014, 12.26 PM IST
Publicis Groupe acquires Beehive Communication, rebrands firmHimanshu Thakkar, Sanjit Shastri and Tej Sahni, who founded Beehive 12 years ago, have sold almost their entire stake in the agency to the ...
23 Oct, 2013, 02.11 PM IST
- DDA courts disaster, plans to cut Yamuna zone by 40%
In a move environmentalists have called disastrous, the Delhi Development Authority has issued a public notice seeking to reduce the city’s...
30 Sep, 2013, 03.49 AM IST
- Dams destroying fisheries, livelihoods
The Delhi-based South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (Sandrap) has urged the Union ministry of environment forests (MoEF) and its ex...
20 Nov, 2012, 11.33 PM IST