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A giant rail bridge across the Gobi Desert in China is making people ask one big question: How?A massive rail bridge rising above China’s Gobi Desert is drawing global attention. Built to overcome shifting sands, powerful winds, and e...- Scorching Rajasthan heat. But a 71-year-old hero has been helping travellers daily for 20 years for freeIn Rajasthan's harsh summer, Thana Ram offers free drinking water to travelers. For 21 years, he has provided this vital service to pedestr...
- Hidden beneath the Sahara, satellite scans uncovered 260 circular mass graves filled with cattle and human remains of a 6,000-year-old nomadic eliteNew discoveries in Eastern Sudan reveal a lost nomadic civilization. Archaeologists found 260 ancient cemeteries, showcasing large grave mo...
- No rivers, no wells, no rain needed: How a Nobel Prize-winning scientist's invention produces up to 1,000 litres of drinking water daily from thin airOmar Yaghi Water-From-Air Innovation: Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has helped develop a groundbreaking machine that can produce c...
- The coolest ideas are often the oldestWe need to think about what can be changed and what we can do without
- One tap, 5,000 residents: How Delhi’s Dakshinpuri is battling severe water shortageResidents of Dakshinpuri's Block 10 are facing a severe water crisis for nearly a month, struggling with basic hygiene and drinking water. ...
- In 1994, two visitors hiking through the Badlands noticed bones weathering from the ground and uncovered an ancient watering hole filled with fossilsHikers in 1994 stumbled upon fossils in Badlands National Park. This accidental find revealed the Big Pig Dig, an ancient watering hole. Ov...
- India’s $1 trillion import dependence makes green transition a strategic necessityIndia faces significant import reliance across key sectors. Aatmanirbharta requires a growth model shift, with the green economy offering a...
- Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen'Toxic runoff from unregulated rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating the Mekong River and its tributaries, threatening the l...
- Delhi govt plans to install water ATMs at public spaces through CSR initiativeThe Delhi government is initiating a pilot project to install 20 water ATMs via CSR, addressing the scarcity of drinking water in public ar...
- Delhi water crisis: AAP govt urges Haryana to discharge water on humanitarian groundsThe Delhi government has appealed to Haryana to release additional water into the Yamuna on humanitarian grounds to address the capital's s...
- Delhi's water crisis to be resolved within 2-3 years: CM Arvind KejriwalArvind Kejriwal said the DJB's water supply capacity has increased from 850 MGD in 2015 to 1,000 MGD now and that he has set an ambitious t...
- PM Narendra Modi to lay foundation stones for water supply projects in parched Vindhya regionOn completion within two years, the two projects will provide piped-water supply to over 42 lakh people in 2,995 villages of the two distri...
- Aurangabad: ‘On-grid solar pumps in water-scarce areas’The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi, conducted a survey of districts that are highly dependent on solar pumps and has come ...
- Wildlife panel delegates power to sanction water pipeline projects to statesNow the standing committee has decided that the power of taking an immediate decision for implementation of drinking water project be given...
- India inching towards water scarcity: Union Minister Harish RawatThe situation in parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and north west India was critical as ground water was dipping at an alarming r...
- State government reviews water scarcity situation in GujaratThe Gujarat government will start fodder depots within 15 kilometres radius in all water-scarce areas to distribute fodder to farmers.
- NABARD sanctions Rs 97.38 crore for Panam Irrigation Project in PanchmahalNational Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned 97.38 crore to the government of Gujarat under Rural Infrastruc...
- Sabarmati may lose 70% water in 40 years, says IIM-A studyThe Sabarmati riverfront project will have to depend on Narmada river to survive because the river may not have much water left in less tha...
- Himachal Pradesh to declare all 12 districts as drought affectedUnder the chairmanship of chief minister, Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, the cabinet took stock of the prolonged drought conditions in ...
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