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Power Generation Begins From Contentious Multi-Billion Dollar Dam On Nile
Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.
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China Approves 14th Five-Year Plan To Build Dam On Brahmaputra In Tibet
China's parliament on Thursday adopted the 14th Five-Year Plan, the mega blueprint containing billions of dollars worth of projects, including the controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border over which India has raised concerns.
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China's Plans For New Brahmaputra Dam Could Irk India: 10 Points
China's plan to start construction of a controversial hydropower project on the river Brahmaputra may become the new irritant in ties with India amid a pullback by both sides after nearly a year of a tense standoff in Ladakh. India fears that the Chinese project may disrupt downstream river flows, worsen water shortages and even cause flash floods....
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Goa Chief Minister Demands Withdrawal Of Consent To Kalasa-Banduri Project
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday wrote to Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar, urging him to withdraw green clearance to Karnataka's controversial Kalasa-Banduri dam and water diversion project, across the Mhadei river.
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Why The Sardar Sarovar Dam Has Faced Protests For Nearly 60 Years
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat today, thousands carried out 'Jal Satyagraha', a protest sitting barefoot in water, miles away in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
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World Bank Had Refused To Fund Sardar Sarovar Dam, We Still Built It: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the Sardar Sarovar Dam - the world's second biggest - on the river Narmada in Gujarat, nearly six decades after its foundation stone was laid. The inauguration of the project - marred by protests and controversies - coincides with the PM's 67th birthday.
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Myanmar Probes Controversial China-Backed Dam
Myanmar is probing whether to resume construction on a controversial Chinese-backed dam, state media reported Saturday, with promises to listen to fierce public opposition to the project.
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Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde in Fresh Controversy Over Dam Building Contract
Fresh allegations of irregularities have been levelled against Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde over the award of a dam-building contract to a private company.
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Fresh Clashes in France After Death of a Man During Dam Protest
Fresh clashes broke out overnight in Paris between police and activists protesting over the death of a young man who was killed during a demonstration against a controversial dam project.
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Gujarat Allowed to Raise Height of Narmada Dam, Activists Protest
Gujarat has been told that it can proceed with increasing the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam, allowing the state much more access to water from the River Narmada, a move denounced immediately by activists led by Medha Patkar.
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Mullaperiyar Dam: In Long Battle Tamil Nadu Gets a Boost
Mullaperiyar Dam: Tamil Nadu today gained significant ground in a long legal battle with neighbouring Kerala over the controversial dam.
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Villages to be submerged by Polavaram dam in Andhra Pradesh trigger controversy
The proposed Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh may have been granted the status of a national project, but the villages which are likely to be submerged once it is ready has become the bone of contention between Seemandhra and Telangana Congress leaders.
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Sharad Pawar on nephew Ajit's crass remarks: He has apologised, matter should end now
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar today said the controversy over his nephew and Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's comments about urinating in a dam to fill it up should end as the minister has apologised. His remarks came amid increasing demands from opposition parties in the state for Ajit Pawar's resignation.
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Will Ajit Pawar have to quit? Mind your own business, says cousin Supriya
NCP leader Supriya Sule today snapped back at a reporter when asked about a party meeting which might have discussed whether her cousin and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should resign for his controversial comments about urinating in a dam to fill it up. "Mind your own business," she said.
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Ajit Pawar's shocking remark on water shortage: who said what
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stirred up a controversy yesterday when he said "If there is no water in the dam...Should we urinate into it?" Mr Pawar had said this in context to a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who is demanding dam water for his parched field. After much outrage, he apologised saying "These remarks were not made...
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Power Generation Begins From Contentious Multi-Billion Dollar Dam On Nile
Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.
-
China Approves 14th Five-Year Plan To Build Dam On Brahmaputra In Tibet
China's parliament on Thursday adopted the 14th Five-Year Plan, the mega blueprint containing billions of dollars worth of projects, including the controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border over which India has raised concerns.
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China's Plans For New Brahmaputra Dam Could Irk India: 10 Points
China's plan to start construction of a controversial hydropower project on the river Brahmaputra may become the new irritant in ties with India amid a pullback by both sides after nearly a year of a tense standoff in Ladakh. India fears that the Chinese project may disrupt downstream river flows, worsen water shortages and even cause flash floods....
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Goa Chief Minister Demands Withdrawal Of Consent To Kalasa-Banduri Project
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday wrote to Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar, urging him to withdraw green clearance to Karnataka's controversial Kalasa-Banduri dam and water diversion project, across the Mhadei river.
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Why The Sardar Sarovar Dam Has Faced Protests For Nearly 60 Years
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat today, thousands carried out 'Jal Satyagraha', a protest sitting barefoot in water, miles away in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
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World Bank Had Refused To Fund Sardar Sarovar Dam, We Still Built It: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the Sardar Sarovar Dam - the world's second biggest - on the river Narmada in Gujarat, nearly six decades after its foundation stone was laid. The inauguration of the project - marred by protests and controversies - coincides with the PM's 67th birthday.
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Myanmar Probes Controversial China-Backed Dam
Myanmar is probing whether to resume construction on a controversial Chinese-backed dam, state media reported Saturday, with promises to listen to fierce public opposition to the project.
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Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde in Fresh Controversy Over Dam Building Contract
Fresh allegations of irregularities have been levelled against Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde over the award of a dam-building contract to a private company.
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Fresh Clashes in France After Death of a Man During Dam Protest
Fresh clashes broke out overnight in Paris between police and activists protesting over the death of a young man who was killed during a demonstration against a controversial dam project.
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Gujarat Allowed to Raise Height of Narmada Dam, Activists Protest
Gujarat has been told that it can proceed with increasing the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam, allowing the state much more access to water from the River Narmada, a move denounced immediately by activists led by Medha Patkar.
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Mullaperiyar Dam: In Long Battle Tamil Nadu Gets a Boost
Mullaperiyar Dam: Tamil Nadu today gained significant ground in a long legal battle with neighbouring Kerala over the controversial dam.
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Villages to be submerged by Polavaram dam in Andhra Pradesh trigger controversy
The proposed Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh may have been granted the status of a national project, but the villages which are likely to be submerged once it is ready has become the bone of contention between Seemandhra and Telangana Congress leaders.
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Sharad Pawar on nephew Ajit's crass remarks: He has apologised, matter should end now
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar today said the controversy over his nephew and Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's comments about urinating in a dam to fill it up should end as the minister has apologised. His remarks came amid increasing demands from opposition parties in the state for Ajit Pawar's resignation.
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Will Ajit Pawar have to quit? Mind your own business, says cousin Supriya
NCP leader Supriya Sule today snapped back at a reporter when asked about a party meeting which might have discussed whether her cousin and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should resign for his controversial comments about urinating in a dam to fill it up. "Mind your own business," she said.
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Ajit Pawar's shocking remark on water shortage: who said what
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stirred up a controversy yesterday when he said "If there is no water in the dam...Should we urinate into it?" Mr Pawar had said this in context to a two-month-long protest by a farmer, who is demanding dam water for his parched field. After much outrage, he apologised saying "These remarks were not made...
