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Forest fire ravages Mizoram’s southern districts
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Indian Air Force helicopters with Bambi Buckets have been pressed into service to put out an Australia-type bushfire raging for two days in Mizoram's...
South Korea regrets Japan’s decision on dumping radioactive water
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South Korea expressed strong regret on Tuesday over Japan's decision to dump radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the...
Dr M. Rama Murthy – the man who created a real forest amid Vizag’s concrete jungle
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It's an environmentalist's sweet-spot right in the middle of the bustling port city of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh. Surrounded by a concrete jungle of...
5 Ramayana era water bodies to be revived in Ayodhya
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Five water bodies linked to the Ramayana era will be rejuvenated in the temple town of Ayodhya.
According to a statement by the Jal Shakti...
Ranaram Bishnoi is quietly converting sand dunes into gardens
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Can sand dunes in a desert be converted into lush green gardens? This question has an answer in Ranaram Bishnoi, a 78-year-old man from...
Forest fire continues to rage in Similipal from Feb 9
The Similipal forest in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha was seen engulfed by forest fire for the last few weeks. The Forest department personnel...
K’taka gram panchayat to produce foot mats, interlock tiles from plastic waste
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"Ujire Janya", an organic manure produced from wet waste collected from nearly 6,000 houses in Ujire gram panchayat, which has a population of 18,000...
Power of Thermal Energy- Revisiting Bharat’s energy sector
A lot many things have been stated about the power of respiration in Indic literature rather an entire oriental literature is replete with the...
Waste Water Management by Urban Local Bodies in Bharat
World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP (2011) estimated that the total annual economic impact of inadequate sanitation in Bharat amounted to a loss...
Clean Ganga River – From Dream to Reality
Since 1986, when the Ganga Action Plan was conceived, the Central government has pumped in about Rs 5,000 crore to clean a river considered...