Groundwater Directorate's 10-yr data as well as CGWB's yearly findings confirm how borewells, unchecked urbanisation have led to water levels steadily falling in India's IT capital.
Child has been rushed to hospital in Nalanda & said to be in stable condition. NDRF official says established communication between child and parents with help of cameras.
It's time to realise that good times of groundwater development are behind us, and with it the dependability on food security and drinking water supply.
Death of 3-yr-old Sujith Wilson who had fallen into a borewell in Tamil Nadu Friday, has once again brought to focus the dangers posed by open & abandoned borewells.
Child could not be saved despite 110-hour rescue operation in Sangrur. Amarinder Singh’s govt institutes standard operating procedures for such incidents.
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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