With new oil and gas exploration projects underway in Bihar’s Samastipur and Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia, the region could emerge ...

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After a three-month survey in the Ganga basin, ONGC has confirmed crude oil reserves at a depth of 3,000 metres in Ballia, media reports said.

Drilling work has already started and requires 25,000 litres of water daily. The project is expected to be completed by April ...

There is, reportedly, a stable population of 300 individuals here. All along the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin, diaras are claimed and ‘owned', farmed and patrolled. The silt is as fertile as ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

World Day for Glaciers on March 21 saw the release of a new research study, revealing alarming state of glaciers in the ...

Kolkata: The accelerating glacier melt in the Himalayas is intensifying both flood and drought risks across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, with Kolkata, bei.

Bangladesh has expressed concern over China’s plan to build a massive hydropower dam upstream on the Brahmaputra in Tibet and ...

According to Union minister of state for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary, India has 9,575 glaciers, small and big, with the ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...