Yamuna reached its peak this monsoon season, rising to 207 metres—above the evacuation mark—earlier this month, leading to havoc in low-lying areas along its banks.
As the Yamuna level continues to decline, people will soon start returning to their homes. The next challenge for them will be cleaning their homes and resuming their businesses.
A heavy discharge of water from the Hathnikund Barrage led to the Yamuna swelling to a warning mark of 204.87 meters at the Old Railway Bridge (ORB) on Monday at 12 pm.
Senior architects are contrasting the Yamuna floodplains project with Central Vista and Ram Mandir. They find that the DDA project lacks the seriousness of intent that the other two had.
Though only 2 percent of its total length, the 54 km section of the river that flows through Delhi accounts for over 75 percent of its total pollution load.
While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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