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Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Why Manipur is flooded

The state's worst flood in recent history raises doubts over the role of dams

Maharashtra government's ATR on irrigation scam omits naming Ajit Pawar

Opposition threatens legal action unless deputy chief minister is punished

Environment ministry rejects 2 Vidarbha irrigation projects

Construction work began without environmental clearance

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Seven Maharashtra villages protest dam

Compensation too meagre, say Melghat tribals

Polavaram dam: high court pulls up Andhra government for giving contract hurriedly

Government directed to submit all documents on the basis of which decision was taken

Blind to rain

Letters

Land stir against Bhandara power plant intensifies

Farmers stall ground levelling work at site; fear police reprisal

Pranhita irrigation project: Maharashtra agrees to form inter-state board

Will help irrigate 663, 684 hectares in seven districts in Telangana region

Public good, private concerns

Odisha is becoming a testing ground for ADB’s aggressive water sector reforms

Science and Technology - Briefs

Andhra Pradesh to cancel controversial Polavaram tender

The lowest bidder is found not qualified for participating in bidding

An index for monitoring effectiveness of climate-smart agriculture practices: How it can help

Awareness and training was the highest weighted dimension among the five that were used to develop the index

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

NITI Aayog wants to hand over micro irrigation to private players

The government policy think tank believes it would take 100 years to exploit the micro irrigation potential with the current programme target and …

Towards water sufficiency

Controlling the Water, Matching Technology and Institutions in Irrigation Management in India and Nepal Edited by Dik Roth and Linden Vincent, …