Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
Udhampur: President of the PDP Mehbooba Mufti today warned to launch a mass movement if unfair water-sharing agreements were not scrapped and Dulhasti as well as Salal hydroelectric projects were not handed over to the state. She warned that her party workers would take to streets to force New Delhi …
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun April 20, 2009, 0:06 IST The Ganga canal, which provides drinking and irrigation water to vast areas of western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, would not be closed during summer. The decision came following a series of high-level meetings between the top officials of …
The president of Janaganamana Peoples Forum has urged that irrigation project as a permanent solution for the water woes in Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts should not be mere election issues. In an open letter addressed to candidates, he has said that the elected representatives should shoulder the responsibility of ensuring …
Pakistan will approach the World Bank on Kishanganga Underground Hydropower Project planned by India over river Neelum, officials said, reports our Pakistan correspondent.
Gangtok: At least 12 labourers were killed when a dam being constructed by a private firm collapsed near Rongli in East Sikkim district, police said on Friday. The Rang Po dam collapsed at about 9.00pm last night and so far 10 bodies have been recovered, but the toll could mount …
Parliamentary Kashmir Committee has termed the Indian attitude over water and stopping Pakistan's water by constructing dams in the Occupied Kashmir as high-handed, inhuman and conspiratorial. Kashmir Committee met here on Friday. Chairman Kashmir Committee Maulana Fazlur Rahman presided over the meeting, which was attended by members of the committee …
PPP MPA Jam Tamachi accused WAPDA of conspiring for the construction of the Kalabagh Dam. Speaking on a point of order in the Sindh Assembly, Tamachi referred to the extreme load shedding, which lasts for up to 20 hours in the rural areas of Sindh, and said that not only …
BHUBANESWAR: For the villages under Tangi block of Khurda district acute water shortage for agriculture purposes was deemed to be a perennial problem. Though in the vicinity of the Malaguni river, water is acutely scarce during the agricultural season. But the river has not forgotten to unleash the fury of …
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi April 17, 2009, 0:58 IST That the power capacity addition in the Eleventh Plan (2007-2012) is going to be below the targeted 78,700 Mw is fairly well-known. It is now evident that there will be a slippage in the capacity addition in the Twelfth …
The coffer dam is being built for the 99 MW Chuzachen hydro electric project developed by GATI Infrastructure. As per the preliminary information, the labourers were working in the coffer dam in the night shift when the dam suddenly burst
Udhampur: With resentment brewing among residents of Doda and Kishtwar districts over not getting benefits from hydel projects functioning in their areas, the PDP has stepped up its campaign in this connection. While PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed yesterday demanded the scrapping of, what he called, discriminatory and arbitrary agreements …
Farmers pin their hopes on a good South-West monsoon A BIG worry: The dry bed behind 16 surplus sluices of Stanley Reservoir in Mettur. METTUR: Farmers of the Delta region and those who depend on river Cauvery for drinking water are a worried lot today as the Stanley reservoir is …
Udhampur: Charging the ruling NC for bartering away natural resources of the state for lust of power, PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has called for re-negotiation of power sharing agreements with the NHPC. Addressing a public meeting at Doda in support of party candidate Balbir Singh, Mufti described the exploitation …
K. Raju ANDIPATTI (THENI): The AIADMK and the DMK miserably failed in settling the Periyar dam issue, charged Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) leader Vijaykant. The parties betrayed the people of Theni and four other southern districts. With wrong policies, Tamil Nadu had been depending on three neighbouring States for …
Govt in talks with ADB, Power Finance Corp. Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun April 11, 2009, 0:49 IST The Uttarakhand government is in talks with financial institutions like the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Power Finance Corporation to revive a couple of big hydel projects.
Two villages were inundated as the embankment on the bank of the River Kapotaksi breached at the Gazipara point of Koyra in Khulna on Thursday. About 300 families, 100 bighas of boro field, 250 small shrimp enclosures and 20 ponds of Gazipara and Gabbunia went under water, the local people …
The Awami League government has initiated the process of construction of the Ganges Barrage for facilitating poverty reduction and economic growth through an integrated water management project in the country
Shimla: Decks have been cleared for implementation of the 960 MW Jhangi-Thopan-Powari project in Kinnaur district with the signing of the pre-implementation agreement between the government and the Brakel Corporation. The corporation also deposited Rs 86 crore as the second instalment of the upfront premium for the project as per …
