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TK Arun US President Donald Trump has become an ambassador for the taco, as meme makers have made the taco stand in for the claim ‘Trump Always Chickens Out’. The image on the right shows a T-shirt from apparel...
Policy UpdateKhushiIntroductionIn today’s fast-paced world, where technology seems to leap ahead every week, teachers don’t just teach, they innovate, adapt, and evolve alongside  their students. Recognising this drastic shift, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) launched the...
DINESH KUMAR“I know not with what World War III would be fought; but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”                                                                                                                  Albert EinsteinIt was in October 2005. I was in Israel to study water management in that country...
Policy UpdateElenora Tu’uBackground:The e-Government AppStore, established under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and Digital India, is hosted by the National Informatics Centre under MeitY. It serves as a centralized repository of reusable government applications, components, and web services, hosted...
DINESH KUMAROur water sector today is facing insurmountable problems. A country with 130 crore mouths to feed, with rapid urbanization and industrialization and changing consumption patterns and life styles, the challenges facing the water managers of our country are...
DINESH KUMARAfter the submission of the report A 21st Century Institutional Architecture for India’s Water Reforms, the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Ministry of Water Resources http:// wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/Report_on_Restructuring_CWC_CGWB.pdf), Govt. of India on Restructuring CWC and CGWB, Dr Mihir Shah, had given...
Tikender Singh PanwarChildren of the Himalayas will inherit not just a warmer world, but one marked by perpetual instability — unless the trajectory of response changes radically.A woman at a residential area in the aftermath of a cloudburst at...
DINESH KUMARWater problems are not new in India. They have been there for many millennia in different forms—water scarcity, droughts, floods, water logging, water contamination, etc. We have been finding solutions to these problems at different points in time,...
DINESH KUMAROne of the oldest water treaties on the planet which was over sharing of waters between two nations of South Asia that came into existence in 1960 and survived several tensions and military conflicts between them was kept...
DINESH KUMARIt has been almost three decades since the efforts to pitch groundwater against surface water began in India by a bunch of researchers and academicians, with the sole aim of proving that the former (groundwater) is better than...