A 27-year-old pharmacist drowned as a boat in which he was travelling overturned in Indravati river on the border of Bijapur and Dantewada district. The team of Bijapur health workers was returning after a health camp organised in the Kosalnar locality.
Local communities have often developed ingenious local solutions such as water sowing and harvesting practices, wetland conservation, and interconnected storage reservoirs. A better scientific evidence base can help integrating these practices and river basin management plans, to offset some
According to new simulations, fish glance down when swimming because the stable riverbed underneath them provides more trustworthy information about their swimming direction and speed.
The people of Assam will throw Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to the river Brahmaputra in the coming days, said APCC President Bhupen Kumar Borah.
Chowdhury urged the minister to treat the ongoing erosion as a national disaster and release funds for urgent mitigation efforts. He also called on the minister to seek the support of the central government in this regard.
Riverbank erosion is widespread throughout the course of the Ganges in West Bengal. Very large chunk of fertile land has been completely wiped out and thousands of people have been displaced in Shamsher Ganj.
Union Minister and BJP leader G Kishan Reddy was the chief guest during the morning session, while Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat was the chief guest during the evening session. Several other officials, politicians and diplomats were also present at the occasion.
This year's COp27 summit will be even more crucial in the backdrop of several extreme weather events -- typhoons in Bangladesh, unprecedented floods in Pakistan, heatwaves in Europe, wildfires in North America, dry rivers in China, and droughts in Africa.