The International Committee of the National Geographic Channel defines watershed on the basis of the criterion that the effect of overland flow rather than the effect of channel flow is a dominating factor affecting the peak runoff. On larger watersheds, the effect of channel flow or the basin storage effect becomes very pronounced so that such sensitivities are greatly suppressed.
Planning and development of watersheds calls for rigorous understanding about the occurrence and movement of water in the surface and sub-surface systems along with soil and nutrient losses in a watershed …

The heads of India and South Africa met in Pretoria just after the NAM summit. With very successful outcome in the NAM summit the two heads met in South Africa to expand its bilateral ties further. With a very successful visit of the Indian Prime Minister the future of Indo-South African relationship looks very bright and one can hope that it would solidify further.
South Africa’s Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was in India recently said, “ India was a key strategic partner of South Africa. Both the countries political and …

Pakistan’s ‘intention’ of extending all possible help to India to combat terrorism is not only not translating into action, some of its leaders are going back on their words and flatly refusing to meet India’s demands. Is Pakistan taking India for a ride? The way the talks between senior leaders of the two countries have been proceeding, (or the lack of it) definitely suggests it is.
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee had called upon President Zardari to close down the “infrastructure” that enables terrorist strikes against India. With the UN Security Council …

The furore in the BJP camp in India, triggered by L K Advani’s recent remarks about Jinnah being a secular person and yet the founder of Pakistan, seems to have subsided. What is the real, historical truth? Recently unsealed British top-secret archives provide a stunningly different version of what really happened during the cataclysmic partition, in 1947, of India into three separate and distinct entities.
Prior to India’s independence, it was widely believed that India was not likely to survive as an independent nation. The Muslim League dreamt of restoring Muslim …