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  • Damned dams

    Damned dams

    A RLCENT World Bank report says that 25 dams in India out of the 947 surveyed in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu were found unsafe. They were constructed using data vastly

  • PAKISTAN CDA

    Pakistani environmentalists in Islamabad are seeing red as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) recklessly strips away tree and vegetation cover. The reason for the ruthless deforestation: the

  • NEPAL

    Nepal's controversial Arun III dam is scheduled to come under withering scrutiny. In early February, the World Bank gave its independent inspection panel a green signal to conduct a formal

  • Damming a river

    Damming a river

    Despite vehement domestic and international opposition, China has decided to go ahead with the massive new dam project on the Yangtze

  • Inaugurating "corruption"

    On September 3, the Argentinian president Carlos Menem inaugurated the first of the 20 turbines of the 3,200MW Yacyreta dam, which he once called country's "monument to corruption". The Yacyreta

  • Frightened by change

    Frightened by change

    The Punjab government's proposal to increase the height of the 531-metre Thein dam on the Ravi river by 9 m has created considerable consternation in the Jammu and Kashmir township of Basoli.

  • Dam alert

    Dam alert

    The construction of the Thoubal multi purpose dam and the Tapaimukh dam in Manipur has sparked off protests

  • Kulekhani dam

    Kulekhani dam, Nepal's only high dam hydroelectricity project, faces the unwelcome prospect of closure in less than seven years if the present high levels of sedimentation continue. The Nepal

  • Who`s afraid of Dai Qing?

    Who's afraid of Dai Qing?

    THE Chinese government, on the face of it: the saga of a mere mortal whose ideas on democracy and free speech exposed a state at its Draconian best begins on February 28, 1989. A book, condemning

  • And justice for all?

    And justice for all?

    In the search for their rightful place in things, the adversaries of the Sardar Sarovar project have taken the issue to the highest court in India

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