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Topic: Yamuna

Toxic Delhi is turning into a City of Lakes. Jal Board has just created 14 new ones

There is a bigger goal behind Delhi’s City of Lakes project. It will make the city self-sufficient in its drinking water needs.

Four drown, several missing after boat capsizes in Yamuna at UP’s Banda district

The incident took place when the boat, carrying 30 to 35 people, was on its way from Marka to Jarauli Ghat in Fatehpur district, police said.

Delhi’s ‘lifeline’ Yamuna is drying up. Here’s how govt can combat water crisis

Rather than lurching from one water crisis to another, Jal Board should insure Delhi against water shortages with a policy-based approach. Here’s a model.

HC dismisses the plea by farmers’ society to restrain DDA from taking over land on Yamuna bank

The court said that since the members of the petitioner society are in unlawful occupation, the relief for compensation on the ground of DDA damaging the crop is not maintainable.

Have prepared 6-point action plan to clean Yamuna river by 2025, says Arvind Kejriwal

The government will shut down the industries discharging industrial waste into the Yamuna, Delhi CM said.

Delhi water crisis will resolve as Haryana has released 16,000 cusecs water: Raghav Chadha

The Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman had earlier said Haryana had been withholding 120 MGD (million gallons per day) water belonging to Delhi, which led to a water crisis.

This is what causes toxic white foam to float on surface of the Yamuna in Delhi

The formation of white foam in the Yamuna river is not something new. However, what's worrying is that the formation of this foam is not a natural phenomenon.

It’s 2021, but floating bodies in UP and Bihar have sent us back to 1918

In Bihar’s Buxar, 71 corpses washed up at Mahadev Ghat of the Ganga river. In UP's Hamirpur, local residents fear the floating bodies will pose a new risk to their health.

‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5…’ — UP fishermen count floating dead as poverty, rituals drive up river burials

In Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district, situated on the banks of the Yamuna, several corpses can be seen floating on the river. Local residents fear health hazards after no action.

Covid is barely a concern for this Delhi village on Yamuna that can be accessed only by boat

So remote is Chak Shila, located in Delhi's Yamuna Khadar area, that villagers don't feel the need to wear masks or gloves. At any rate, access to food & water overshadows other issues.

On Camera

Azad, Antony, Geetha—6 candidates to watch in 2024. Their win can reshape politics in states

While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.