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Science & Technology - Briefs

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Ganga's moment

Sand mining lobby uses tricks to evade MoEF scrutiny

Ministry panel visiting Greater Noida finds even leased mining areas do not have any environment clearance

Punjab slips for sand mine, again

Ropar authorities plan mining in 776 hectares when only 30 hectares is allowed

Water crisis in Tripura town

Feni river dispute fuels water shortage in border town

World's longest underground river in Mexico

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

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South Asia

‘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

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

Maharashtra groundwater bill gets presidential nod

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