With Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi featuring among the 30 Indian cities to face serious water shortage by 2050, as per a recent study by .
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Egypt reveals ancient archaeological burial finds south of Cairo
Egypt s best known archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, famed for his Indiana Jones hat and TV specials about ancient Egypt, has unveiled details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis at Saqqara, south of Cairo.
The latest trove was found in 22 burial shafts, and date back four millennia.
According to Hawass, who was also Egypt s former antiquities minister, archaeologists unearthed the temple of Queen Neit, wife of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty that ruled Egypt from 2323 B.C. until 2150 B.C..
Indian farmers beat water scarcity with innovation
After losing crops to severe drought for years, farmers in Maharashtra are seeing high yields through imaginative cultivation methods. They told DW that taking control is better than protesting government policy.
Farmer Ambalesh Kashinath shows off his yield of cauliflowers
Krishna Narode, 26, from Gangapur village in India s western Maharashtra state, is visibly excited as he surveys his four-acre farm where he cultivates an array of crops and fruits, including papaya, sugar cane, wheat and ginger.
In a few months, it will be time for harvesting and Narode knows that his efforts will pay dividends as he has relied on natural farming practices.