Bengaluru, Jan 15 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that meeting Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is nothing new for him and is a “natural process”.Shivakumar’s comment during a media interaction came ahead of his departure for New Delhi to attend the meeting of Congress election observers appointed to various states. Shivakumar, who is also the state party chief, has been appointed as the senior election observer for Assam.Asked whet…
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New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal has impleaded the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as an additional respondent in a suo motu case concerning the rapid expansion of Himalayan glacial lakes and the growing risk they pose to lives and infrastructure downstream. A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, was hearing two connected original applications registered suo motu (on its own motion) following media reports about glacial lakes multiplying…
Hyderabad, Jan 5 (IANS) Telangana Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday categorically stated that the Telangana government will not never agree to the construction of the Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar link project by the Andhra Pradesh government, and will definitely stop it.In an informal chat with media persons, he said that the Andhra Pradesh government’s proposals are a clear violation of the Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal 1980 award and interstate water regulations.He said the le…
Hyderabad, Dec 31 (IANS) Telangana Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said that the State government is committed to protecting Telangana’s allocated 968 TMC share in Godavari waters and safeguarding future irrigation projects He asserted that the State government has taken a series of proactive administrative and legal measures to robustly defend the State’s irrigation interests in the ongoing inter-state water dispute over Andhra Pradesh’s proposed diversion of Godavari wate…