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Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post on Monday said that Chinese engineers were testing techniques to build the tunnel, the world’s longest one. The alleged plan was to divert the waters to the Xinjiang desert. Until now, China's longest tunnel is the 85-km Dahuofang water project in Liaoning province, while the world's longest tunnel is the 137-km main water supply pipe beneath the city of New York. The location and its significance. Courtesy: The Pioneer India being a riparian state, has already conveyed to China about the growing concern regarding dams built by the latter in and around Brahmaputra river called, Yarlung Tsangpo in China. The view was "to turn Xinjiang into California". The water will be diverted from the Yarlung Tsangpo River(The Brahmaputra's tributary in in China) in southern Tibet, which turns into the river Brahmaputra once it enters India,extending to the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang. Wang Wei, a researcher who helped draft...

Today's Delhi cracker ban did hurt sentiment of many a people, and it surely did! There is an increasing trend of so called learned elites going to Supreme courts specially in decrees involving Hindu customs and traditions which they feel are vestigial thereof. Sad part is, this clan is amongst the Hindu community itself, and they don't vouch for any collective responsibility. The gentleman who filed this case has Arjun Gopal as his name. There is a copy of court proceedings dated 12th September 2017(Link below). It was prior to the judgement delivered today. Most of it suggests preventive measures to be practiced during festivities and many more such 'measures'. I don't know for how many number of times the PIL can be filed/entertained with same grievance. But I think this issue was taken up constantly right from 2015 until today’s judgement. Supreme Court has led ban on 'manufacturing and selling' of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR On reading thr...

Right from our childhood we’ve heard and went through this first word of the title. The great Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar said शिक्षण हे वाघीणचे दूध आहे . ( Education is like a tigresses’ milk ) . He meant that it instills a sense of self-righteousness and empowers us to stand on our own. This is the profound belief behind education, more so. The Indian education system starts with a balwadi or Shishu gat sophistically called the kindergarten. The end of all this is decided by hope, ability and economy of oneself. The erstwhile pioneers in education right from Mahatma Jotiba Phule and Dhondo Keshav Karve started the schools and universities as centers of learning. The revered female educationists like Savitribai Phule and Ramabai Ranade too will not remain behind the curtains of history, strived for female literacy. Those father figures still instill hope and faith in education. They are the sources of inspiration for us to get ourselves educated and know why. Lokmanya Tilak was ‘for...