Extraction of water through illegal borewells not less than sin: Delhi High CourtThe Delhi High Court has strongly criticized the illegal extraction of water through borewells, likening it to a sin and warning of a poten...
13 Apr, 2025, 10.59 AM IST
Rajasthan: 3-year-old girl pulled out of borewell after 10-day rescue operation, diesA three-year-old girl fell into a 150-foot-deep borewell in Kotputli-Behror district, Rajasthan. After a 10-day rescue operation, she was b...
02 Jan, 2025, 08.10 AM IST
Toddler who fell into 50 feet borewell in Gujarat's Amreli pulled out, declared dead"The child was pulled out from the borewell at 5:10 am and taken to the Amreli Civil Hospital where she was declared brought dead," Fire Of...
15 Jun, 2024, 09.04 AM IST
Water crisis: Legal action against drilling unauthorised borewells in Bengaluru, says BWSSBBWSSB said in an order that before drilling borewells for personal or other use in Bengaluru city, it is mandatory to obtain permission fro...
11 Mar, 2024, 02.09 PM IST
Delhi borewell rescue ends in death; Body pulled out after 12-hour opsThe deceased was a male aged around 30 years. Atishi emphasised that the circumstances leading to the incident, such as how the individual ...
10 Mar, 2024, 04.04 PM IST
Child falls into borewell in Delhi's Keshopur, rescue operation underwayAccording to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), the child fell into a borewell, about 40-50 feet deep, inside the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) plant in...
10 Mar, 2024, 08.51 AM IST
Bengaluru water crisis: Demand for Cauvery water on the rise as borewells run dryDeputy chief minister DK Shivakumar said that out of the city's 16,781 borewells, only 7,784 were currently operational, with 6,997 having ...
07 Mar, 2024, 12.55 AM IST
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...
29 Jul, 2022, 05.30 PM IST
After the death of 2 boys in 4 days, MP govt says all open borewells must be covered"The two deaths are extremely sad. Instructions have been issued to all Janpad Panchayat Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Public Health ...
28 Feb, 2022, 07.14 PM IST
Haryana Police registers FIR against farmers for raising concrete wall on NH-44, digging borewellThe cases have been registered under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the National Highways Act after complaints from the N...
14 Mar, 2021, 06.08 PM IST
Bengaluru water crisis: Borewells are aggravating rather than solving itAs water from the river Cauvery is yet to reach their homes, the residents of Ramagondanahalli are left at the mercy of private suppliers w...
26 Apr, 2019, 11.28 AM IST
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 ...
03 Apr, 2018, 11.52 AM IST
BJP alleges borewell scam in poll-bound Karnataka; Congress refutes allegationBJP showed over 100 pages of documents pertained to the digging of borewells for Dalits under the Ganga Kalyana scheme carried out by the s...
23 Feb, 2018, 11.42 PM IST
Recycling of Karnataka borewells saves state Rs 5.2 croreA recycling scheme of parts of defunct borewells in Bengaluru rural district has saved Karnataka’s treasury an estimated Rs 5.19 crore in o...
02 May, 2016, 02.54 AM IST
Amity and anger over water in a time of drought in KarnatakaIn many parts of drought-stricken north Karnataka, borewells have become the sole beacons of hope – and despair – as people desperately loo...
30 Apr, 2016, 07.05 AM IST
Maharashtra government to ban digging of borewells deeper than 200 feetThe decision comes in the wake of big farmers and private players resorting to digging new borewells on agriculture land due to water scarc...
13 May, 2015, 01.13 PM IST
- Two-yr-old boy pulled out of borewell dead
Sonu, the two-and-a-half-year-old boy, who fell into a 150-foot borewell in Shamshabad district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, has been pull...
13 Oct, 2008, 12.40 PM IST