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Not Worth The Parchment?
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24.6.2013 |
Outlook Magazine |
| All the contracts are generous, but privatised water hasn't really got our cities overflowing with joy |
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A Pool Of Lies
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24.6.2013 |
Outlook Magazine |
| The oasis UPA is supposed to have brought Pakur is a mirage |
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Is UP heading for a flood crisis?
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19.6.2013 |
DNA: India |
| As many as 32 districts in the sprawling state are prone to flooding. Last year, 398 people lost their lives during monsoon. Some officials feel that no lesson seems to have been learnt. |
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Monsoon: Why can’t we get ready in time?
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19.6.2013 |
Deccan Chronicle: Comment |
| A surprise early monsoon should be welcome news for much of the subcontinent, whose mainly agricultural economy is so dependent on the rains, but not if it catches us unprepared — despite all the warnings!
A normal monsoon is hardly a rarity (past patterns suggest three out of four monsoons yield |
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Himachal hydropower units remain shut for fourth day
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19.6.2013 |
New Kerala: India News |
| Shimla, June 19 : The country's largest hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh remained shut for the fourth consecutive day Wednesday following a high silt level in the Sutlej river, triggering a power crisis in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. |
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Himachal hydropower units remain shut for fourth day
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19.6.2013 |
Oneindia.in: News |
Shimla, June 19: The country's largest hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh remained shut for the fourth consecutive day Wednesday following a high silt level in the Sutlej river, triggering a power crisis in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.The plants in Kinnaur district |
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50 dead, 500 missing in submerged Kedarnath
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19.6.2013 |
Oneindia.in: News |
New Delhi, June 19: The Kedarnath town was virtually submerged in mud and slush where 50 people had died and 500 people are said to be missing in the flash floods. The reason for mud, slush and flash floods could |
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Is UP heading for a flood crisis?
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19.6.2013 |
New Kerala: India News |
| By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow, June 19 : With monsoon rains lashing Uttar Pradesh and river banks breached in several districts, the state may be headed for one of its worst flooding. |
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Agriculture's impact on malaria
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19.6.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Caspar van Vark unpicks the complex link between irrigation systems and mosquitoes in Africa
Raising agricultural productivity is a priority in much of sub-Saharan Africa, where some 70% of people live in rural areas and rely on farming. But 90% of the estimated 660,000 global deaths caused by malaria in 2010 were also in Africa, and agricultural development can play a role in its transmission. How should this be reconciled to create a more "malaria smart" approach to agricultural growth?
One of the main links between malaria and agriculture is irrigation. It's estimated that irrigation could boost agricultural productivity in Africa by 50% and many development organisations see irrigation as crucial to future development.
But irrigation can also be conducive to mosquitoes, which transmit malaria. Rice, for example, is a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa and important for food security. It also relies on flooded paddies, which provide breeding sites for mosquitoes such as Anopheles ... |
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PHOTOS: Swollen Yamuna leaves 15,000 homeless in Delhi
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19.6.2013 |
Rediff: News |
| Threat of flood loomed large over the national capital as the water level in Yamuna rose well above the danger mark and is set to go up significantly with Haryana releasing over nine lakh cusecs of water into the river in the last two days. |
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Nature’s fury: We have dug our own graves
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19.6.2013 |
Oneindia.in: News |
Last year, we Indians were ruing shortage of rainfall and this year, they have been rattled by a fast advancing monsoon. The way various north Indian states have been crippled by the onslaught of monsoon, especially Uttarakhand, it raises one pertinent |
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Akhilesh Reviews Situation in Flood-Affected Districts in UP
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19.6.2013 |
Outlook Wires |
| Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today took stock of the situation in the state arising out of incessant rains in neighbouring Uttarakhand. |
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TN orders release of water for irrigation
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19.6.2013 |
Hindu: Tamil Nadu |
| Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday ordered release of water for irrigation from seven dams in the state from June 20.Following requests of farmers from Kanyakumari district... |
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Statement of Judge Karnan
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19.6.2013 |
Hindu: Tamil Nadu |
Crl.R.C.No.674 of 2007(i) If a bachelor aged 21 years or above and a spinster aged 18 years or above had pre-marital sex with intention to marry and subsequent to this the man deserts the... |
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Heavy rains lash north India 131 dead 70000 stranded Kedarnath town ruined
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19.6.2013 |
Hindustan Times: Top Stories |
| Heavy rains lash north India 131 dead 70000 stranded Kedarnath town ruined |
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New water supply connections likely to be granted from July 1
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19.6.2013 |
Hindu: Coimbatore |
| Approvals stopped when Siruvani Dam water level dipped |
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Himachal hydropower units remain shut for fourth day
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19.6.2013 |
Zee News : States |
| The country`s largest hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh remained shut for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. |
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Akhilesh reviews situation in flood-affected districts in UP
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19.6.2013 |
Zee News : States |
| Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday took stock of the situation in the state arising out of incessant rains in neighbouring Uttarakhand. |
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Saurashtra recveives 208 million cubic feet of freshwater
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19.6.2013 |
TOI: Ahmedabad Times |
| Saurashtra recveives 208 million cubic feet of freshwater |
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Akhilesh Yadav reviews situation in flood-affected districts in UP
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19.6.2013 |
DNA: Top News |
| The CM specially reviewed the prevailing situation in flood-affected Lakhimpur Kheri, Pilibhit, Bijnore, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli and directed the officials to remain vigilant, a spokesperson said. |
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