Author(s): Moushumi Sharma Date:Jul 9, 2014 Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria Some MDG targets, such as increasing access to sanitation and reducing child and maternal mortality… Continue Reading →
El Salvador‘s battle to protect its water by becoming the first country to ban metal mining could have a wide-ranging resonance No drying up … with their water supply threatened, Salvadorans are hitting back at mining companies such as Pacific Rim…. Continue Reading →
Gargi Parsai, The Hindu Companies that use the natural resource for profit pay no charge or royalty for the raw water they use — only a nominal ‘cess’ varying from State to State (a few paise per kilolitre). There are… Continue Reading →
MUMBAI, May 31, 2013 The Hindu Despite the drought in Maharashtra, the State government diverted water to thermal power plants in scarcity regions, said Greenpeace on Thursday. Releasing data on water diversions from dams, Jai Krishna, a Greenpeace campaigner, said that… Continue Reading →
HISAR, TNN : Infuriated over a dalit’s buffalo rubbing its back against the wall of his house and dirtying it, a man allegedly drowned a 12-year-old girl in a pond at Banbhori village in Hisar district on Wednesday. The police… Continue Reading →
DC | Bengaluru: With the city facing a shortage of clean drinking water, the National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI), based at St John’s Hospital, Bengaluru, is engaged in a project to evaluate polluted rivers around the city… Continue Reading →
A deeply spiritual man, who has ensured Benaras-Kashi remained peaceful and calm after the ghastly attack on the Sankat Mochan Mandir(7.3.2006), Mahant Veer Bhadra Mishra passed away yesterday Deeply Committed to India s syncretic ethos, opposing the politics of… Continue Reading →
ByPrafulla Marpakwar, TNN | Mar 9, 2013, A high-ranking bureaucrat said situation in five districts—Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed and Osmanbad—is so bad that the existing drinking water will last only till the end of this month. MUMBAI: Summer may still be a… Continue Reading →
By Jai Maharashtra News | 23 Feb Sat, 2013 | next Amravati: In a very strange case here at Amravati, a village named Kovala Jateshwar, which is almost 50 km away from Amravati, the local villagers are facing a unique problem. The locals have… Continue Reading →
JVM protests at JAMSHEDPUR Jusco office SATURDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2012 , Jamsehdpur PNS | More than 3,000 residents of slum areas and JVM activists led by Jamshedpur MP Ajoy Kumar staged massive demonstration at Jusco office for nearly three hours on… Continue Reading →
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