A video of women from Phulambri, Aurangabad in Maharashtra running behind a water tanker sprinkling water over a newly constructed road, to fill their buckets went viral on social media on June 2.     https://youtu.be/DxLhxPBaphA   With 80% of districts in Karnataka and 72% in Maharashtra hit by drought and crop failure, 8.2 million farmers in these two states are struggling to survive. More than 6,000 tankers supply water to 4,920 villages and 10,506 hamlets or settlements in drought-hit...

NOIDA: The Authority is working to revive all existing wetlands and ponds in Noida, under a drive that aims at attaining ecological and economic self-sustainability. To start with, it has chosen a neglected, natural wetland of about 1.8 hectares located in Sector 91. This wetland will be developed through a neighbourhood community exercise with the help of experts and made ready by July 15. Currently, the area is dumped with construction debris and other municipal waste from neighbouring areas....