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Dibang hydel project gets Centre's nod

Centre approves reconstituting the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan into Swachh Bharat Mission

'Sabarmati ke Sant, tune kar diya kamaal'. Oh Saint of Sabarmati, you have done wonders' goes the popular song. Today, it is the Sabarmati herself who is supposed to be the subject of  a miracle.

As Hari Singh led me towards his fields, I wondered if he was trying to play a joke on me. Large rocks were scattered in the area and there was no sight of any arable land, neither was there any clue of the irrigation channel which Singh claimed ran through his farm.

Uttarakhand Government submits to Centre the Rs 9,478 crore Ganga Action Plan

Gujarat Government allocates Narmada water to Coca Cola plant at Sanand

Bihar is no stranger to floods. The high-volume, high-velocity floods caused by large infrastructure projects regularly disrupt lives and decimate entire villages. This is the oft-repeated narrative, one of a helpless population as victims.

"The men say that the well is perennial", I said. "Do you use it"? "No", replied the women. "It might be perennial, but the water is unclean. Our dals don't cook, and there are sometimes worms in the water".

Water Ministry launches a portal on the Ganga river

SC gets strict with illegal river sand miners