Chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Saturday visited Doda village in Muktsar district to inspect the site for the proposed 150-km long Malwa canal project and said that it will cater to the irrigational needs of nearly 2 lakh acres in the southern part of the state. “The Malwa Canal being built alongside Rajasthan Feeder and Sirhind Feeder Canals with …
The BJP Government in Karnataka, which is under pressure to act on the proposed ₹9,000-crore Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir and Drinking Water Project in the wake of the recently-concluded padayatra by the Opposition Congress, has allocated ₹1,000 crore for the project in the State Budget presented on Friday. The project has assumed importance not only because it would regulate the flow …
A carcass of an adult male tiger was fished out from Hardoi feeder canal near Dandaul bridge by a joint team of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve and the forest and wildlife division. Range officer of Puranpur forest division, Ayyub Hassan, said that he received news of the tiger’s carcass in the canal late on Wednesday evening. PTR Deputy Director Naveen Khandelwal …
A giant fish that lived around 380 million years ago fed in a similar way to basking sharks, the second-largest living shark in the world today, scientists report. Titanichthys jaws were less resilient than those of other placoderm species that fed on large or hard-shelled prey during the so-called Devonian period – 140 million years before the first dinosaurs roamed …