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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea which had challenged the validity of the Cairn-Vedanta deal and said there was nothing malafide in the transaction. The court was hearing a petition challenging the validity of the $8.5 billion Cairn-Vedanta deal and had sought a CBI probe into it. "There were no extraneous considerations involved in the deal and it should not be interfered with by the court....
11:59 AM, May 09, 2013
Jaipur: A delegation from Rajasthan led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot now visiting Israel held talks with officials on cooperation in agriculture, horticulture and water resources, a statement issued here said on Sunday. Cooperation in water management, particularly drip and sprinkler irrigation in water-deficient Rajasthan, was also discussed, the statement said. "Israel is among the front-runners in desert agriculture management. With cooperation from Israel, coordinated management of horticulture and water...
04:55 AM, Apr 29, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Friday ordered closure of the Tuticorin copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources group, with immediate effect, and power supply to the plant has been cut off, a company official said. ...
05:19 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday blamed "corruption" during the previous BSP regime for the crisis of resources, which was affecting the process of development in the state. ...
02:20 AM, Feb 04, 2013
World leaders will gather in Delhi for the Sustainable Development Summit that is being organised by global think tank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). It will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The gathering is said to influence the global discourse on sustainability issues. ...
09:55 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Lack of access to resources and energy is another key area of concern and another major impediment to success on the road to sustainable development, says Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland. ...
12:41 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 28 allayed fears of the states on the proposed national legal framework on water, saying the Centre has no intention of encroaching upon their rights on the issue. "The central government does not wish to encroach, in any manner, upon the constitutionally guaranteed rights of states or to centralise water management...I would like to emphasise the need to see the proposed national legal framework...
03:37 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as head of the National Water Resources Council, will be chairing a meet on National Water Policy, 2012 on Friday. Experts and non-governmental organisations working in the water sector have urged Singh to recognise people's access to safe water as a fundamental human right, and have asked him to not do away with the clause in the draft policy which suggests that water services be privatised....
08:57 AM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: The university system was not producing "well-educated" graduates to meet needs of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the "guise" of training, Minister of State for Higher Education Shashi Tharoor on Monday said. He also said that the national education policy in the past has been out of step with the times. "The major problem remains that our national education policy in...
03:22 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after he went after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for attacking Sunanda Pushkar, Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD), Shashi Tharoor, said he has never shied away from acknowledging his wife in public or private. Tharoor was responding to a Twitter user's accusation that he had admitted in Parliament that he had "nothing to do with the person" (Pushkar) with 'sweat equity' worth Rs 70...
12:39 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Newly appointed MOS HRD Shashi Tharoor made a comeback on twitter- taking on the man the Congress loves to hate. ...
11:39 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: When it comes to using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to his advantage, very few can match newly-appointed Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor's battle skills. Tharoor hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday in his own inimitable style for calling his wife Sunanda Pushkar "a 50 crore girlfriend". Modi was alluding to the cricket controversy in 2010 involving...
03:13 PM, Oct 30, 2012
In a major relief for the government, the Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that the auction order in the 2G scam was only restricted to telecom spectrum and not for all natural resources. The Supreme Court held the 2G Presidential Reference as maintainable. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia also clarified that its opinion will have no bearing on the 2G order. Apart from Chief Justice ...
02:47 PM, Sep 28, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that the auction order in the 2G scam was only restricted to telecom spectrum and not for all natural resources. The Supreme Court has held the 2G Presidential Reference as maintainable. The court had on February 2, 2012, cancelled 122 2G licences and had said natural resources should be distributed through a public auction. ...
10:17 PM, Sep 27, 2012
The Supreme Court said that the auction route is not mandatory for allocation of every natural resource. ...
09:11 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: In a huge relief to the Central government, the Supreme Court on Thursday held the Presidential reference on 2G as maintainable and said that the auction route is not mandatory for allocation of every natural resource. The apex court also clarified that its order on 2G spectrum auction was only restricted to the telecom sector and not for any other resource. While the government welcomed the judgement of...
06:53 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court (SC) opinion on the 2G Presidential Reference, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said that it had confirmed the government's stand. "The Supreme Court has confirmed what the government had been saying, that policy making should be left exclusively to the government. The order has brought Constitutional clarity," said Sibal at a press meet. "We welcome the judgement of the Supreme Court. It has made it...
04:17 PM, Sep 27, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that the auction order in the 2G scam was only restricted to telecom spectrum and not for all natural resources. The Supreme Court has held the 2G Presidential Reference as maintainable. Following is the full text of the Supreme Court's opinion on the 2G Presidential Reference: ...
03:50 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for the government, the Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that the auction order in the 2G scam was only restricted to telecom spectrum and not for all natural resources. The Supreme Court has held the 2G Presidential Reference as maintainable. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia has also clarified that its opinion has no bearing on the 2G order. Apart...
02:46 PM, Sep 27, 2012
