According to a 2018 Niti Aayog report, 21 Indian cities, including Chennai, are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020.According to a 2018 Niti Aayog report, 21 Indian cities, including Chennai, are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020.
Four southern states — Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu — have been gripped by drought, and people blame politicians for ignoring them.
In Maharashtra's Hiware Bazar, farmers compare loan waivers to the IPL, saying they are a short-term hack with no real potential to resolve farm distress.
The answer to why one region can deal with a terrible drought and another can't lies basically in its politics — because in a democracy votes decide where the state invests.
This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
A national emergency. Drawal of groundwater will have to be monitored and regulated more stringently. It is one thing for a farmer to run his pump an extra couple of hours, not cities with five million people. Whether or not we like it, the axe will have to fall on agricultural use. It should yield to requirements for potable use. Our cities like Bombay should follow global best practices on rain water harvesting, storage, recycling.
A national emergency. Drawal of groundwater will have to be monitored and regulated more stringently. It is one thing for a farmer to run his pump an extra couple of hours, not cities with five million people. Whether or not we like it, the axe will have to fall on agricultural use. It should yield to requirements for potable use. Our cities like Bombay should follow global best practices on rain water harvesting, storage, recycling.