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Landslide Dam blocks Zanskar River tributary, threatens Valley
The picturesque Zanskar Valley in Jammu and Kashmir State in Northern India is under threat as one of the tributaries of the Zanskar River has been blocked by a massive 200 ft high landslide dam (equal...
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World Wetlands Day 2015: Rivers and Wetlands need hydrological protection too!
On the World Wetlands Day we celebrate Wetlands across the country (Wetlands also include Rivers, tributaries, floodplains, ox box lakes and deltas) as one of the most productive ecosystems of the...
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Maharashtra scraps River Regulation Zone : Pandering to industry at the cost...
Above: Pollution from a River Kasardi which was denotified as it was affecting some big businesses When Devendra Fadnavis of BJP became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, one would have thought that...
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Landslide Dam blocks Phutkal River, threatens Zanskar Valley: Update
Feb 13, 2015: The picturesque Zanskar Valley in Jammu and Kashmir State in Northern India continues to remain under threat as one of the tributaries of the Zanskar River has been blocked by a massive...
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NGT Orders MAILY SE NIRMAL YAMUNA – WILL THIS LEAD TO A REJUVENATED YAMUNA?
Guest Blog by Manoj Misra (yamunajiye@gmail.com), Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan, Delhi The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in a landmark judgment pronounced on 13 January 2015[1], has set an ambitious road map for...
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Mission on Small Hydro Projects: Ignoring social and environmental impacts...
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the RE-Invest 2015, India’s first Renewable Energy Global Investors’ Meet and Expo in New Delhi on February 15, 2015, full-page advertisements in the...
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DRP News Update from SANDRP: January 2015
DRP News Update from SANDRP January 2015: The following news stories are about dams, rivers & people, mostly from India but also some from South Asia and rest of the world. This is for the period...
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An Epic Voyage along the Ganga comes to close!
From Burton and Speke’s expedition to the origin of Nile to the age old Narmada Parikrama or the Chaar Dhaam Yatras (which are as much river journeys as pilgrimages), River journeys have always...
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Landslide dam threat in Zanskar Valley to continue for more weeks: Update 2
In the most significant event so far on the issue of landslide blockage of Phutkal River in Zanskar Valley in Kargil District in Kashmir, the National Crisis Management Committee[1] (NCMC) chaired by...
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हिमालयी नदियों से खिलवाड़ और जून 2013 की उत्तराखण्ड़ त्रासदी
क्या है हिमालयी नदियों का मिजाज़ ? (एन.डी.टी.वी.- इंडिया, 20 फरवरी 2014, http://khabar.ndtv.com/video/show/documentary-ndtv-india/what-is-the-mood-of-himalayan-river-357478) रिपोर्टर:- सुशील बहुगुणा,...
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Thirsty sugarcane in dry Marathwada means a loss of 2 million farmer livelihoods
Above: Gangakhed sugar factory from Parbhani Marathwada which has crushed 7 Lakh Tonnes of cane till 21 Feb 2015. Parbhani has received a mere 346 mm rainfall this year, nearly equal to what it...
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Ekti Nadir Naam: Ramblings through the etymology of River names in India
Above: Dry Chandrabhaga from Maharashtra. We have at least 5 Chandrabhagas in India! Photo: Parineeta Dandekar ~~ “I’m going to buy vegetables from the banks of Ganga. Coming?” (“गंगेवर चालले आहे भाजी...
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India Budget 2015: Is there any hope for rivers, environment or farmers?
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Maiden Full year budget presented to the Parliament on Feb 28, 2015 invited a lot of hype. Let us see what his statement of account for the 2015-16 has in store...
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Early Spring Rains bring Climate Disaster for farmers in India
It was bit of a shock to get up to a VERY wet Sunday on March 1, 2015, having slept past midnight the previous night with a ‘dry’ weather. When I checked my inbox, the message from Manoj Misra of...
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जलवायु परिवर्तन की मार झेल रहे भारतीय किसान ; बेमौसमी बरसात का प्लेजियों को...
जलवायु परिवर्तन की मार से किस प्रकार भारतीय खेती और किसान प्रभावित हो रहे है, इसकी एक झलक हमको फरवरी अंत और मार्च 2015 के आंरभ में हुई। अप्रत्याशित हिमपात, बरसात एवं परिणामस्वरूप आई बाढ़ के रूप में...
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1948 Floods in Bihar-1 – Inaugural flood after Independence – View from Press...
Guest blog by Dr Dinesh Kumar Mishra (dkmishra108@gmail.com) Background Bihar is long known for its floods. The British had left India but their legacy of looking at rivers and their floods was still...
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1948 Floods in Bihar-2 Inaugural flood after Independence – Official Version...
Compiled[1] by Dr Dinesh Kumar Mishra (dkmishra108@gmail.com) Government of Bihar, Revenue Department, Report on the Flood and Relief Operations in Bihar for 1948-49. Superintendent, Government...
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1948 Floods in Bihar-3 Inaugural flood in Bihar after Independence – Assembly...
-Guest blog by Dr Dinesh Kumar Mishra (dkmishra108@gmail.com) This years’ flood[1] was discussed in the Bihar Legislative Assembly on the 18th September, 1948 from a different angle than what is common...
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Thanks to Bagmati Project, They Are on Roads for Forty Years
Guest blog by Dr Dinesh Kumar Mishra[1] (dkmishra108@gmail.com) “We went to meet the collector to ask him whether we were the citizens of this country or not? If, because of the Bagmati Project, our...
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Battered Maharashtra and Melting Tibet: The Climate Change Connection
Above: Nagpur or Anantnag? Hailstorms of March 2015 in Nagpur Photo by: Atul Patne ~~ It seems like a bad deja vu. On the 11th March last year, we wrote about hailstorms in Maharashtra. Back then, the...
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