New Delhi: With per capita availability of water depleting at a faster pace, the government on Thursday approved a proposal to declare 2013 as Water Conservation Year under which awareness programmes will be launched for conservation of the scarce natural resource.
Under the proposal, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet, the Water Resources Ministry will launch a series of programmes among masses, especially children, on water conservation.
While India has more than 18 per cent of the world's population, it has only 4 per cent of the world's renewable water resources. With growing population and rising needs, per capita availability of water is likely to go down from 1545 cubic meter per annum in 2011 to 1341 cubic meter per annum in 2025.
Water Conservation is the key objective of the National Water Mission which is one of the eight National Missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change....
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11:10 PM, May 09, 2013
Jindal Power Ltd (JPL) was on Monday issued summons by the district court in Raigarh for alleged violation of environmental norms in connection with its coal washery at Libara and Dhaurabhatha villages in Chhattisgarh. Chief Judicial Magistrate Raigarh GK Neelam issued the summons to JPL, its Executive Vice President Ram Niwas and Assistant Vice President Sameer Chatterjee, seeking their presence in the court on April 25, 2013. ...
01:42 AM, Apr 02, 2013
While the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) laments the growing number of tiger deaths in Indian reserves, there seems to be an increase in population in Karnataka. Virtually every month a transient tiger has been caught in the precincts of the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. ...
07:20 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Some of you might remember the cover image of the badly bruised face of a man staring at you from the Forbes India Investment Guide 2012, around exactly the same time last year. It wasn't a pretty sight, signalling the onset of a brutal year for investors. It did turn out to be a rough ride, at least for the first half of the year. The economy slowed down, the...
12:41 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Tiger population in India has significantly increased in the wild, thanks to protection of additional habitat of the big cat and stringent anti-poaching patrols, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said. In southwestern India, where WCS research and conservation efforts began 25 years ago, a major rebound of tigers in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka has taken place. ...
04:59 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Kolkata: Renowned German heritage conservationists will visit Kolkata this November to help draw conservation plans for four of the city's iconic landmarks. Touring the city for two days on Nov 28 and 29, a group of 10 German experts, including the director of Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, will visit Victoria Memorial, National Library, Indian Museum and the Asiatic Society. "The four buildings have a lot of archival works, so...
04:23 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed visuals of shocking massacre of tens of thousands of migratory Amur falcons in Nagaland. The NGO, Conservation India, has documented the slaughter. The NGO has estimated that 12,000 to 14,000 birds are being hunted for consumption and commercial sale every day. The captured birds are kept in mosquito nets or cane baskets, so they can be sold alive. This is probably the single largest congregation...
01:37 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Hyderabad: India will earmark a sum of $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country, when it holds presidency of the Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Announcing this while inaugurating a high-level segment meeting at the ongoing CoP-11 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the funds would be utilised to enhance technical...
01:07 AM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to lift its ban on tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves saying that the ban will continue until the National Tiger Conservation comes up with guidelines on tourism-related activities at sanctuaries. The apex court said that it will not pass any orders until the guidelines were framed. The next hearing in the case is on October 16. The Centre had...
02:58 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Bangalore: Spread over an area of 150 acres in North Bangalore, Hebbal lake is the success story of a conserved water body that faced lot of controversies and issues pertaining to its rejuvenation and maintenance. But, today it is a haven for a large number of migratory birds. Serving as a nesting ground for many a species, however, this time, the winged visitors have made a late entry to the...
02:01 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) authorities have repeatedly assured one and all that even though 3,000 trees had to be cut down to make way for the new service, they would do their best to compensate for the same by translocating trees to the Outer Ring Road and planting saplings along the metro route. So far, they have translocated 384 of the 1250 trees uprooted last year between Miyapur...
02:50 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Hyderabad: An Asiatic male lion cub was born a couple of days ago at Hyderabad Nehru zoological park besides a a male baby rhino was born on July 5. So far, as many as 46 endangered species of animals, birds and reptiles have been born in the last year at the zoo. The Nehru zoological park has also been named as the second best zoo in the country after the...
01:41 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Bangalore: Even as the Supreme Court's order to ban tourism in core areas of tiger reserves is being hailed by wildlife conservationists, disconcerting news trickles down from Madumalai and Bandipur tiger reserves that hard-core poachers are still at large in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Close on the heels of ten notorious poachers being arrested from the BR Temple tiger reserve, a poacher was arrested deep inside the...
04:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
In a big victory for conservationists, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves. ...
02:58 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: In a big victory for conservationists, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves. The order came in response to a public interest litigation by activists which argued that tourism activities were putting pressure on crucial tiger habitats and that tiger safaris and resorts should be shifted to buffer zones instead. According to the latest tiger census, there are approximately 1700 big...
11:55 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Close to 50 tigers have died in the past six months in India, 19 of which were killed in poaching incidents. It's a shocking figure, specially when compared to the 56 tiger deaths reported in all in 2011. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has sounded an alert in all tiger reserves with an order that all the big cat deaths must be treated as poaching cases unless proven...
08:20 AM, Jun 12, 2012
Kaziranga National Park: The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has come up with some fresh ideas to save its tigers. There are about 81 to 131 of them there. CNN-IBN's Arijit Sen travelled inside the park to learn about the technology that has been put to use to spot the big cats. Kaziranga National Park Director SK Bora said, "The habitat we are trying to protect appears to be quite...
09:27 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has come down heavily on poachers. State Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam has issued 'shoot-at-sight' orders to the forest guards if they saw any poacher hunting or laying traps in tiger reserves. The orders have been in place for the past 10 years but the field staff have been reluctant to implement them as some forest guards were being booked for violating human rights despite the government...
08:27 AM, May 23, 2012
HYDERABAD: No tiger death took place in Andhra Pradesh in the last 14 months, while as many as 32 tigers died across the country in the last over four months. Moreover, the number of tigers is increasing in the state.However, six panthers died either naturally or in accidents since 2010.According to the interim report of the ongoing State Tiger Census-2012 conducted by AP Forest Department (APFD) with the help of...
11:33 AM, May 18, 2012
HYDERABAD: In the season of water woes comes another statistical surprise.The Unaccounted For Water (UFW) limit, or the quantity of distributed municipal water that is unaccounted (not traceable), has been found to be 35-40 per cent of the total water available for consumption in the city! This when the global average is just 20 per cent, with Singapore leading the pack at 18 per cent.Admitting that the issue needed to...
08:50 AM, Mar 29, 2012
