Science and Technology - Briefs

Maharashtra to allow coal mines closer to rivers

Relaxation of river zone regulation law will damage rivers and even mines, say environmentalists

PUBLIC PRESSURE

In short

South Asia

Breaking the impasse of 2013

Floods blacked out but real

Water woes in wet Kerala

More than 2,000 mm of rain in 2003 but crops destroyed and farmers committing suicide; crores spent on 31 irrigation projects but villages going …

‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’

Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects

IN COURT

Hotels, golf course to come up at the Victorial Falls Heritage site

Protest for Kali river water

Amazon the longest, not Nile

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

In flood-prone Bihar, govt asks villagers to tweet potential threats

The state’s major rivers are all above danger levels and pose severe risks to flood-prone areas

Kumbh: time to come clean

Construction on China's North-to-South water diversion project begins

Federal control over Murry-Darling river system

Fishes in backwaters of Zambezi river suffer a deadly infection

Canadians oppose a run-of-river hydel project

Thawing ice triggers Yellow River flood

Li's visit yields little on Brahmaputra

China goes ahead with dam construction, while both countries classify hydrological data in the name of national security

Maharashtra groundwater bill gets presidential nod

Setting up regulatory authority, notification of overexploited areas and developing watershed development plans to get top priority

COSTA RICA

Australia to revive Murray-Darling basin