Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of President Municipal Committee Thathri VS Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir dated 03/12/2024. Joint committee report dated November 25, 2024 has been filed through the Central Pollution Control Board. Project proponents stated that they want to file an objection to …
Almost a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450 MW Baglihar power project on Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir, the Union government is all set to push work on the second power project (Baglihar-II) on priority basis. The high-level team comprising over a dozen Central secretaries that …
Khatmarian border village may get flooded The erection of high bandhs and the construction of bunkers by the Pakistani army along the border is not only causing security concerns, but also threatening floods on the Indian side by blocking the natural flow of rainwater. The bandhs have left little space …
Mumbai-based ship manufacturing and repairing company ABG Shipyard Limited has bagged three out of the last five remaining hydroelectric projects in the state for which bids were invited last year. A new entrant into the power sector, the company quoted the highest free power, over and above the mandatory free …
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan will soon raise the issue of a dam being constructed by India at the Chenab river, reports our Pakistan correspondent. "Soon an expert lawyer would be engaged to raise the matter at the international forum. We have already discussed the thing with …
Talks between Pakistan and India on the controversial Kishanganga Hydro Power Project have broken down, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah as saying on Friday. Talking to media in Islamabad on his return from India, Shah said the issue of the Kishanganga project came …
Athar Parvaiz : The already exist ing disputes between India and Pakistan over water-sharing are expected to exasperate further given the forecast that the impact of climatic changes, due to environmental degradation, would cause drastic depletion in volume of water in the Indus River system originating from Himalayan glaciers. Himalayan …
Jammu: The multi-crore desilting project undertaken by the state Irrigation Department to clean the Ranbir Canal, which is considered as the lifeline of the Jammu region, has turned out to be a mere eyewash as the project has miserably failed to serve the purpose. On a question by BJP MLA …
Due to last three weeks of rains in the country, water shortage, which otherwise was estimated at 10 per cent for early Kharif, has ended, and the water planners hope to have
by Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich in Wazirabad Crucial, coveted and increasingly scarce, water has become the latest issue to stoke tensions between India and Pakistan, with farmers in Pakistan
With submergence threat at their doorsteps, aggrieved residents of Pul Doda and its adjoining areas in district Doda are at the mercy of the callous officials of various departments dealing with the distribution of adequate compensation for their proper rehabilitation and resettlement. Despite high court directions proper distribution of compensation …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI, Jan 27: The Centre is planning to go ahead with constructing another mega power project on river Chenab in Doda district after the completion of Baglihar. In less than a week after putting the controversial 450 MW hydro-power project on the river Kishanganga on fast track, …
SRINAGAR: Few days after prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh commissioned the state's first 450 MW Baglihar power project, Pakistan has once again objected to the construction of the power project and has said that 23,000 cusecs of water to fill Baglihar dam has reduced the flow of water in the …
The Pakistan president, Asif Ali Zardari, has warned a brewing row with India over the waters of the Chenab river in the disputed Kashmir region could harm improving ties between the old rivals. The warning came two days after the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, inaugurated a 450-megawatt hydro power …
The prospect of being held accountable for blowing up Rs 450 crore on an unfeasible project seems to be prompting a powerful section within railways to seek the revival of the four-year old proposal of building the world
The government on Tuesday announced that it would drag the recalcitrant Indian government into international arbitration if appropriate compensation in the shape of money, or water, was not given to Pakistan for the damage done to matured crops in Punjab due to stoppage of Chenab water in August. "We want …
Nirupama Subramanian ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says India has blocked the Chenab waters from flowing across to its side, endangering its kharif crop as a result. Water and Power Secretary Ismail Qureshi told Geo television that the matter had already been taken up with New Delhi through the Indian High Commission, and …
An inter-departmental meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (today) in the Ministry of Water and Power to discuss legal options against India for violating the precept of the Indus water treaty by stopping Chenab water in August to fill Baglihar Dam, built in occupied Kashmir. "We do not have any complaint …
