-India Water Portal Deconstructing the traditional narrow engineering based policy discourses around Floods and droughts and connecting them to social and cultural realities is the need of the hour in India. India has witnessed extreme weather conditions this year. While parts of the north and south have battled drought like conditions this summer, the northeast and western coastal areas witnessed heavy rains and Floods. While climate change has been highlighted as one...
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CMFRI teams up with ISRO to collect wetland data
-The Hindu Business Line Kochi (Kerala): In a significant attempt to protect coastal wetlands in the wake of the climate crisis, a mobile app has been developed to collect the complete datasets on smaller wetlands across the coastal region of the country. The app was developed by the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of the ISRO upon the request of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in line with a memorandum of...
More »Floods in many parts of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
-PTI Monsoon season officially ended on Monday. Several parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were reeling from Floods on Monday following incessant showers over the past few days. The death toll in rain-related incidents has mounted to 145 across the country. Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths — 111 since last week. Twenty-five have died in Bihar. The weather department has forecast a long delayed withdrawal of monsoon and more rains for...
More »Govt bans onion exports with immediate effect as prices stay elevated -Dhirendra Tripathi
-Livemint.com * The retail prices of onions spiked to Rs.70- Rs.80 earlier this week * Floods in key onion-producing states of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and others have hurt supplies New Delhi: The government has banned export of onions with immediate effect to check spiraling prices which touched Rs.70- Rs.80 per kg in the open market. The ban covers all varieties of onions. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Commerce...
More »IAS officer refuses to divert funds, shunted out
-The Telegraph Yediyurappa sought department cash for flood relief Bangalore: The Karnataka government has shunted out an IAS officer who reportedly refused to divert funds from her department for flood relief. Rohini Sindhuri, secretary of the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, was shifted without a posting after she apparently ignored orders to contribute a slice of the department’s funds for flood relief. Chief minister and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa had...
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