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Ganga: New govt report suggests hydro projects flout rules to maintain river's minimum environmental flow
The Third Pole •A recently published government status report makes it increasingly clear that the minimum environmental Ganga flow mandated is too little, and even that is not being lived up to.
Recent floods force farmers at Maharashtra-Karnataka border to straddle two states, owing to compensation policies
Mongabay India •Farmers living along the Maharashtra-Karnataka border with homes in one state and farmlands in the other were impacted by the 2019 floods in western Maharashtra and their situation was aggravated as their lives straddle two states.
Uttar Pradesh: 14 dead, 8 injured today in rain-related incidents today, North Eastern Railway services disrupted
•As many as 14 fresh rain-related deaths were reported from across the state, the Uttar Pradesh government said on Sunday.
Assam floods: Sprinter Hima Das donates half her salary for relief efforts, asks corporates to come forward as well
Fp Staff •The torrential downpour in the state of Assam continued to wreak havoc on Monday, causing the flooding on National Highway 37 and affecting 200 villages in Morigaon district alone due to the rising water levels of river Brahmaputra.
Ten killed, 8.5 lakh affected in Assam floods; heavy monsoon triggers landslides in Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh
•Heavy monsoon showers triggered landslides and house collapse in parts of the North East, claiming at least 10 lives and leaving over 8.5 lakh in Assam.
Monsoon deficiency falls to 21% nationwide, says IMD, but 91 reservoirs, 62 water bodies report 80% decline in storage
•Three-fourths of MeT department's sub-meteorological divisions in the country fall under the "deficient" rainfall category.
HD Kumaraswamy meets Narendra Modi, requests him to convene meeting of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu over Mekedatu reservoir
•A high-level delegation, led by HD Kumaraswamy, met Narendra Modi on Monday and requested him to convene a meeting to resolve various issues raised by Tamil Nadu.
CAG report shows Kerala disaster could've been prevented: Poorly-managed dams, ineffective forecast system part of mismanagement
Praveen •Each Kerala death is just part of a far larger story — one that, the United Nations estimates, costs India more than $7.5 billion and kills at least 1,500 people every year.
One dead, 9 missing after boat capsizes in Ganga in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor; NDRF at spot for rescue operation
•Bijnor district magistrate Atal Kumar Rai said there were 27 people on the boat which sank in the Ganga near Rajarampur village under Mandawar police station area.
Indian monsoon: The challenges of accurately predicting the deadly thundershowers
Mangorish •It is just the inherent complexity of the tropical systems like that over India that hold us behind in weather prediction.