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Bhopal District
35 years on, government looks away as Bhopal neighbourhood continues to drink chemical-laden water
Posted on 07 Aug, 2019 02:09 PMAlia, 15, cannot move or talk. “She is totally dependent on me,” said her father Mohammad Asad, an electrician. “Her mother passed away almost nine years back. I have to remain with her most of the time”.
After 40 years, Hilsa migrates to Allahabad again
Posted on 13 Feb, 2019 01:29 PMNavigation lock at Farakka Barrage redesigned for Hilsa migration
The search for a shelter
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 08:46 PMIn the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.
Twin lakes of Bhoj
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 10:10 PMThe Bhoj wetland is situated in the heart of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh. The wetland consists of two man-made lakes--the upper lake and the lower lake.
Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
Undisposed toxic waste still haunts Bhopal’s groundwater
Posted on 02 Dec, 2015 03:06 PM“When cool air blows over the city and it rains in Bhopal bringing welcome respite to its people, I fear that toxic waste is spilling into its groundwater”, says Rajesh Kumar who shows me around the 68-acre plant site of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).
These 'River View' apartments could get you in neck deep!
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 03:59 PMAt a time when the Central Government has stressed the need to protect our rivers, the Kaliasot river green belt in Madhya Pradesh has witnessed haphazard growth due to illegal constructions. Not only has the flow of the river which flows from the center of Bhopal been affected, but also community lives have been impacted.
Government fast-tracks green nod to Arunachal hydel project
Posted on 02 Mar, 2015 09:35 PMGovernment bends its own guideline, fast-tracks green nod to Arunachal hydel project
ICIMOD wins UNFCCC's award for flood warning system
Posted on 03 Dec, 2014 09:55 AMICIMOD wins accolade for its flood warning system
Centre allocates Rs.133 crore to conserve 115 wetlands
Posted on 05 Aug, 2014 12:41 PMCentre identifies 115 wetlands for conservation and management