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Hydroelectricity

  • MALAYSIA

    Yet another fracas centering around a dam: the Malaysian government is going ahead with its plans to construct the Bakun hydro- electric dam on the island of Borneo. While the Deputy Prime

  • VIETNAM

    More than 50,000 people will pay for the nation'., power crisis. The Vietnamese government announced it., plans to displace a large number of people from a remote northern province to make way

  • MALAWI

    Conservationists in a dw from pleased 4Apw*ira hydro mw sidumw that is low pan stream in hmm. Among the kimcbow to the it dw it will flood bo ei the Majete mmubich is home qp

  • HIGH UP

    In what is termed as the world's highest by electric power Station and also an exi smalls"le power plants, the 600 KW project in Thame, at an altitude of 12,000 feet near the Mount

  • CHINA

    CHINA

    The Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project in China, once promoted as a major money-spinner for multinationals, is now turning out to be a liability for Beijing. The international financial

  • Villain turns hero

    Danny Denzongpa, who acted the villain in countless Hindi films, is playing a hero in real life. He is gathering support for a group called the Concerned Citizens of Sikkim. The group is

  • Dams decried

    The Environment Appraisal Commiittee for River Valley and Hydro-electricity Projects under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), has recommended that construction work on 10 dams be

  • Damned by tribals

    Damned by tribals

    Although the prime minister's programme to lay the foundation stone at the 710 mw Koel Karo hydel project on March 5 was shelved, the anti-dam lobby demonstrated its muscle by gathering at Torpa

  • Power struggle

    Power struggle

    Nepal's controversial Arun III dam becomes the first World Bank bankrolled project taken up for re scrutiny by the Bank's new Inspection Panel an ombudsman body with teeth

  • The right to know

    The right to know

    On January 16, 1994, 2 human rights activists, Gopal Siwakoti and Rajesh Gautam filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court under Article 16 of the Constitution which recognises the right

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