Bengaluru, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's economic advisor Basavaraj Rayareddi has said that huge allocations to the state government's five assurances have made it difficult to get funds for development works.The Congress MLA from Yelburga in Koppal district spoke at a farmers'...
The road to Manimahesh Dal Lake was blocked due to landslide in Bharmour area of Chamba district, Shimla on Thursday.A 19-second video of the incident between Goinallah and Donnelly, shot by a passenger, surfaced on social media.Although the Manimahesh Yatra starts from 17th August and...
The road to Manimahesh Dal Lake was blocked due to landslide in Bharmour area of Chamba district, Shimla on Thursday.A 19-second video shot by a hiker of the landslide between Goinallah and Donnelly surfaced on social media.Although the Manimahesh Yatra starts from 17th August and...
Berhampur (Odisha), a 48-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly hunting birds in Odisha's Chilika lake, a forest official said.He was hunting birds at Bidharpursahi near Bhusandpur in the Tangi forest range and 18 carcasses of four species of birds were seized from his possession, said...
Local people swung into action and pulled all four out of the lake.The shocking incident took place at Inamguda lake under Abdullapurmet police station area.Ashok, a resident of BN Reddy Nagar, Hyderabad and working as a contractor, had taken his son and two daughters for a morning walk...
New Delhi, four states and a Union Territory in the Himalayas will begin ground-based studies to determine the vulnerability of glacial lakes after the monsoon season, officials said on Tuesday.A glacial lake flood (GLOF) in Sikkim in October 2023 prompted this initiative, they said.Tracking...
Mumbai: Mumbai's Powai lake overflowed on Monday due to heavy rains lashing the city over the past few days, a civic official said.The official said that the lake with a storage capacity of 545 crore liters started overflowing at 4.45 pm.However, the water of the lake is not potable and is...
Bengaluru: The technical committee constituted to monitor the implementation of the Hemavathi River Link Canal to provide drinking water to Magadi taluk in Ramanagara and Kunigal taluk in Tumakuru districts by filling Sriranga lake in Magadi will hold its first meeting on July 9.A statement...
A 36-year-old man died after drowning in a deep pit on the banks of Damdama lake, Gurugram. Police gave this information on Friday.He said that the deceased has been identified as Prem, resident of Ward 21 of Sohna.Police said the deceased had gone to Damdama lake with five of his friends on...
The homes of 43 families collapsed and 2.41 million mu (about 160,667 hectares) of agricultural land was flooded. Direct economic losses are estimated at 1.86 billion yuan (about $260.9 million), Xinhua news agency reported, citing Jiangxi's flood-control and drought-relief headquarters...
New Delhi [India], Delhi LG, VK Saxena, has praised the DDA (Delhi Development Authority) for its efforts in constructing the airport drainage, thanks to which, despite the recent record rain, the IGI airport remained free of waterlogging.Immediately after taking over, LG took up the task of...
Ahmedabad, The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday rejected a probe report submitted by the state government into the Vadodara boat tragedy and ordered a fresh probe, noting that it acquitted a former civic chief, and questioned its decision to award a contract. to operate the shore of the lake...
Semp, who was on leave, showed exemplary courage and rescued a friend from the lake before becoming stuck in the mud and weeds at the lake's edge.His body was taken out from the depths on Monday.The Army's Eastern Command said the incident took place at Nsonji Lake in Simenyu, Nagaland, near...
A 23-year-old man died in hospital on Sunday, a week after he was beaten by unidentified people in Kolkata, West Bengal's Jhargram district.This is the third death in a mob attack in West Bengal after two other similar incidents in Kolkata and nearby Salt Lake on June 28 and 29.On June 22...
Kolkata: A man was allegedly beaten to death on charges of "mobile phone theft" in Salt Lake area on Saturday, less than 24 hours after a man was beaten up on similar suspicion. He died. Police gave this information.He said three people have been arrested in connection with the incident which...
Affected by persistent heavy rains, major flooding has been observed in several tributaries connected to China's two largest freshwater lakes, Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, Xinhua news agency reported.The ministry on Friday raised emergency responses to level III for floods in Anhui, Jiangxi...
It is expected to benefit up to 5,000 people in the local community.Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 28: Kennametal India Limited, together with Planet Sutra, a sustainability implementation partner, today held an event to mark the completion of the Harokethanahalli Lake restoration project...
Hyderabad: A large number of dead fish were seen floating in a lake in Sangareddy district and officials attributed the death to low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water body.A fisheries department official said on Thursday that fish were found dead in the 230-acre lake in Chitkul village...
Palghar (Maharashtra): A 15-year-old boy drowned in a lake in Nalasopara in the district on Wednesday, police said.Three children had gone to swim in the Dhaniv pond and one of them, Firoz Wasim Shaikh, drowned, an official said.He told that when the other two boys raised an alarm, the local...
Alibaug (Maharashtra), 13 people, including seven minors, drowned in various water bodies in Maharashtra's Raigad district in the last one month, police said on Tuesday.He said that seven tourists were also among the dead.Two teenage boys drowned in a lake in Munwali village of Alibaug...