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Pipe-dream?THE NATIONAL river interlinking plan has been enthusiastically received for three central claims it makes for itself. One, it would lead to a permanent drought-proofing of the country by raising the irrigation potential to equal the current net ... 
Water warsBY ITS own admission, the Centre recognises as a major hurdle the managing of a political consensus for its ambitious project to interlink rivers, even though the Government feels empowered, armed as it is with a Supreme Court order to complete ... The smaller, the better MICHAEL EVENARI, an Israeli scientist, was intrigued when he saw ancient towns in the middle of the Negev desert which gets only about 100 mm of rain every year. Not only did they have their own drinking water systems, but surplus for agriculture ... News Analysis Deficiencies in defection law By K. K. Katyal Pity we are destined to live with political defections that worked havoc with the polity for nearly four decades, upsetting the checks and balances provided by the architects of the Constitution and law-makers. What is particularly worrying is ... It's an inevitable climbdown By V.Jayanth CHENNAI, FEB. 1. In a clear reversal of what the Government maintained was a ``well-thought out'' decision, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, announced, within a fortnight, the scrapping of the free meal scheme for small and marginal farmers, in ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Magazine | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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