Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Jammu: The government is mulling over buying back the Uri and Salal hydel projects on a depreciated value from the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to make J&K; surplus in power generation. Minister for Public Health Engineering, Irrigation and Flood Control Taj Mohiuddin asserted this while delivering the keynote address …
Faced with public unrest over power crisis in the Valley, Jammu-Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said his government was even prepared to pay for getting back the Uri and Salal hydel projects from the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC). Referring to the state government’s demand for handing over …
GUWAHATI: After they had succeeded in bringing the construction at the NHPC’s 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district of Assam, the anti-dam brigade comprising several organisations were on Thursday called for negotiation by Assam government in Guwahati. The anti-dam agitation has brought the construction to …
GUWAHATI: The indefinite NH 52 blockade in northern Assam against the NHPC dam at Gerukamukh by Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and other organisations has been withdrawn on Wednesday after the Assam Government invited the agitating groups for talks. The blockade that was being enforced by KMSS, Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba …
GUWAHATI: As the indefinite blockade in northern Assam against the NHPC dam site at Gerukamukh on Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border continued, the government today invited protestors as well as civil society activists, who have raised concerns for the dam, to sit for talks on Thursday. The Group of Ministers (GoM) formed …
- Dispur invites KMSS and other organisations for discussions tomorrow Guwahati, Jan. 3: Dispur this evening formally invited the anti-dam groups for talks on January 5 while issuing a separate public appeal asking them to withdraw their blockade of supplies to the Lower Subansiri hydel project, in a bid to …
Even I support the anti-dam movement and I had taken part in the road blockade for three hours. Does this mean that even I am a Maoist? The government should clearly explain who are the Maoists. It cannot simply try to defame the anti-dam agitators by calling them Maoists. — …
Over two dozen organisations in Assam staged an indefinite blockade on a national highway on Monday as part of campaigns to prevent the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) from constructing a dam and a 2,000-MW project in adjoining Arunachal Pradesh. The protest is being spearheaded by two apex anti-dam groups …
New Delhi The threat of a blackout looming over the Capital due to the payment dispute between NTPC and BSES discoms has been averted, with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) restraining the Central generator from cutting power supply to the discoms till the dispute is resolved. NTPC had threatened …
NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Jan 1 – The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti and its associate organisations have decided to continue with their ongoing blockade against NHPC in North Lakhimpur and Chaul Dhowa Ghat for an indefinite period after their temporary halt to the programme ended today. This was announced by the KMSS …
ITANAGAR/LAKHIMPUR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Friday sought intervention of Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the on-going agitation against 2000 mw Lower Subansiri project at Gerukamukh. The development took place after protesters served a two-day ultimatum on the Assam government to break the impasse and threatened …
GUWAHATI: The Assam government on Friday warned of ‘strongest steps’ against the anti-big dam movement in northern Assam even as a section of agitators declared of a three-day blockade of essential commodities to the NHPC’s Gerukamukh dam site that would run parallel with the ongoing indefinite blockade against raw materials …
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh government on Wednesday said Lower Subansiri hydro-electric project would be finished in time despite ongoing blockade in neighbouring state of Assam. “Assam government should take measures to control the situation so that people of Arunachal Pradesh are not harassed unnecessarily,” Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki told …
CHAMATA: At the very time when several regional organizations of Assam demonstrated to seek a halt on mega dam construction in the lower Subansiri basin, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is on the way to of constructing two electric towers in Pagladiya River here in order to produce current. …
The money from the fresh equity that it has received from the Delhi Government and the parent company, and the loan that it is expecting from IDBI Bank are not enough to pay off the dues that it owes generation and transmission companies, power distribution company BSES said on Tuesday, …
CHAULDHOWA (ASSAM): Police fired in the air and burst teargas shells for the second day here on Tuesday to evict protesters demonstrating against the construction of a hydro-electric project at Lakhimpur, even as authorities held talks with KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi to resolve the stand off. Police acted on protesters …
ITANAGAR: Three districts of Arunachal Pradesh have been facing acute shortage of essential commodities due to on going indefinite economic blockade. The agitation is spearheaded by Krishan Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS) in several parts of Assam in protest against the Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project (LSHP). The East Siang, West Siang and …
Guwahati, Dec. 27: Police today resorted to lathicharge and used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-dam protesters blocking National Highway 52 in Lakhimpur district of Assam. Lakhimpur superintendent of police David Neitam told The Telegraph that the police were compelled to use force when around 800 anti-dam protesters …
GUWAHATI: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) that is spearheading anti-mega dam protests in eastern Assam has called for indefinite bandh of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts from Tuesday (December 27) in protest against ‘police atrocities’ on anti-dam protestors who were forcefully evicted from the demonstration site at Ranganadi in the wee …
A late-night crackdown by the police and paramilitary forces on anti-mega dam protesters in Lakhimpur district triggered raging protests at several places in Assam on Monday. The police arrested more than 200 protesters, who since December 16 had been blocking vehicles transporting equipment and construction materials, through National Highway 52, …
