Rivers

The name Tripura originated from 'Twi' meaning water and 'Para' meaning land. The indigenous population, which is about 32%, refer to Tripura as Twipra, meaning land of water. However, the state no longer seems to be living up to its name.

'Rural job profile observes a significant change'

No sale of packaged drinking water without BIS mark: FSSAI

Chilika lagoon named as 'Destination Flyways' by UN

Plans to create power corridors for each river basin on its way

India’s mapping activity dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE) as per the famous geographer, Joseph E. Schwartzberg. His work is based on a couple of surveying instruments and measuring rods that were excavated from the Indus valley sites. Our mapping traditions were influenced by Vedic, Tibetan, Islamic and more recently, British cartography.

Green norms eased for expanding coal mines

GSI report suggests channeling Mandakini river

In the 60-odd years since we began managing our own resources, we have managed to throttle and poison all our rivers, suck our groundwater resources nearly dry and shave our forests bald. This is despite a great deal of effort, time, thought and resources that have gone into this 'management'.

Improved sanitation can reduce diarrhoea cases by 47%: World Bank