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Can we build castles without sand?
Posted on 14 Oct, 2016 05:45 AMSand is today the most consumed raw material in the world after water. From building infrastructure to making glass, silicon chips, solar panels and even detergents and toothpastes, sand is an omnipresent element of our living.
Empty fields remain as schemes fail
Posted on 13 Oct, 2016 01:20 PMPhaguni Ho hails from East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Come March, Phaguni’s husband will migrate to Chennai to work as a daily wager at a construction site. Unable to handle the small farm in Singhbhum alone, she has given it on lease to another farmer. “I have to look after my four children and livestock.
Ways to keep arsenic away
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 10:12 PMFor villagers at Madhusudan Kathi, the handpumps serving water from an unprotected source led to arsenic contamination, making water from these pumps risky to drink.
New Supreme Court bench to hear Cauvery dispute
Posted on 11 Oct, 2016 02:38 PMCauvery dispute: New Supreme Court bench constituted
River transport projects on development track
Posted on 10 Oct, 2016 10:36 AMGovernment starts river transport project with eight waterways
Voices that go unheard
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 09:45 AMMinket Lepcha always felt close to nature and the environment since her childhood, thanks to her upbringing in the picturesque Darjeeling. Though she had spent many years in Delhi, studying and working in corporate firms, her interest in community development, environment and culture brought her back to her home town.
Champions of cleanliness
Posted on 04 Oct, 2016 11:36 PM“Like 'Satyagraha' freed the country from colonialism, 'Swachhagraha' would free the country from dirt” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi
J&K mulls mini dams for irrigation
Posted on 03 Oct, 2016 02:22 PMJ&K govt to construct ‘mini dams’ for irrigation
Karnataka not to release water to TN
Posted on 03 Oct, 2016 02:13 PMNo water to TN till a special state legislature session takes a call: Karnataka
Farmers think tanks, fight to save water
Posted on 29 Sep, 2016 05:57 PMThe union territory (UT) Of Puducherry is, for the most part, enveloped on three sides by the state of Tamil Nadu with the Bay of Bengal framing its eastern face. A total of 84 irrigation tanks--part of the Gingee and Pennaiyar river systems--dot the territory’s landscape.