As north India battles the cold, Maharashtra is facing a crisis of another sort. There is a severe water crisis in Marathawada, which is forcing entire villages to migrate in search of water and jobs. ...
06:40 AM, Jan 02, 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
Scenes of angry citizens carrying the national flag and shouting slogans continued on Sunday afternoon amidst water cannons and tear gas shells burst by police. Protesters demanded stricter laws to ensure safety of women in Delhi following the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old woman, who is now battling for her life in Safdarjung Hospital. ...
04:36 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Police resorted to water cannons to disperse crowds at India Gate for the second consecutive day as angry crowd of citizens protested in large numbers demanding justice for the 23-year-old paramedic student who was raped and beaten by half-a-dozen men in the national capital. ...
02:47 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Citing an order of the apex court, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Mammohan Singh to expedite the notification of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final order before the end of this month. ...
02:47 AM, Dec 21, 2012
For India, improved relations with Southeast Asia will give it entry into one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world. ...
05:07 PM, Dec 19, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to approach the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resolve their dispute over the sharing of the river's water. ...
09:21 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Pakistan's blind cricket team's captain was recently given detergent water to drink and that gave rise to conspiracy theories. ...
10:04 PM, Dec 09, 2012
The persistent water woes of Saurashtra, a scarcity-prone area of Gujarat, has become one of the main poll issues in the 2012 assembly elections in Rajkot as people are angry that virtually nothing has been done in the last ten years to resolve the problem permanently. ...
10:30 AM, Dec 09, 2012
People in remote Kashmir villages struggle severely due to acute power, water and fuel shortage as temperatures plummet below zero degree Celsius. A distraught Mohammad Khaliq and his wife take stock of the massive destruction a fire has caused in their village in south Kashmir in which scores of houses were gutted at a time when freezing temperatures have made life miserable. ...
07:59 AM, Dec 09, 2012
The emotive Cauvery water sharing dispute continues to keep Karnataka and Tamil Nadu tense. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has come out with a distress sharing formula, but yet another appeal will be before the Supreme Court in two days. ...
09:29 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Karnataka was on Friday directed by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee to release 12 TMC (thousand million cubic) feet of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu during December. The state said it would appeal the order. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Vehicles have stopped plying from Sathyamangalam to Mysore following demonstrations and hartal by some Kannada outfits in parts of Karnataka protesting the Supreme Court directive to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. For the second consecutive day, more than 800 lorries, 300 vans and 200 other vehicles have been parked at Sathyamangalam, Bannari check-post and near Thimbam, police said. ...
01:59 PM, Dec 07, 2012
In the wake of Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday said he would lead a MPs team from the Cauvery Basin to meet the Prime Minister for apprising him of the distress situation in his state. ...
12:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Protests erupted late on Wednesday in Cauvery belt in Karnataka hours after Supreme Court's directive to the state to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu. ...
01:45 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Since Karnataka is heading for Assembly elections in 2013, the central government may not be pushing it hard to release Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court was told by a counsel on Monday. ...
12:46 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka should step up efforts to check bitterness among the people of the two states over the issue of sharing of Cauvery waters, DMK president M Karunanidhi said on Monday amid reports of some violent incidents in the border areas. ...
01:56 PM, Dec 03, 2012
