Tag Archives : Uttar Pradesh

The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, summoned on Monday (17) the regional government leaders for a emergency meeting on the drought that reaches the country. The Indian meteorological department indicated, on August 13, that the precipitations were 29% below the average. Of the 626 districts of India, 177 were affected by a drought, that can [...]

In India, water tables are being depleted, threatening the water resources of the country. An article published this month in the scientific journal Nature states that in six years, from 2002 to 2008, reserves of groundwater in three regions of northern India, Haryana, Punjab, and Rajasthan, have decreased by 109 billion cubic meters, or one tenth [...]

Kumari Mayawati was born a poor girl in a family of untouchables in a village in Uttar Pradesh, a place with nearly 200 million people trying to live from agriculture. Uttar Pradesh hardly offered its people an opportunity to achieve high hopes for the future, but the tenacity of Mayawati, her intelligence, and some luck won for her the regional elections [...]