Hydel Project

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at 30 locations linked to former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in a probe linked to alleged corruption in the awarding of a contract for a hydel projects.

Ten people, including five employees of the forest department, were trapped at the Kol Dam Hydel Project in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district on Sunday, officials said.

A mini-hydel plant developed by a 34-year-old man using bamboos has drawn the attention of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

Residents of 14 villages of Darma valley in Pithoragarh have risen in protest against a proposed 165 MW hydro-electricity project in the area fearing that its construction will push them into the throes of a Joshimath-like crisis.

A 12-kilometer long tunnel connected to the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project is 1 kilometers away from Joshimath town and at least a kilometer below the ground, state-owned NTPC has told the power ministry explaining its project has no role in

The situation worsened, and now over 600 families are being evacuated from Joshimath after a temple collapsed, and several houses developed wide cracks.

Shehbaz Sharif was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to lay the foundation stones for various projects that will improve road, hydel and power infrastructure.

With teary eyes, residents of Lohari village looked on helplessly as their homes, farmlands and cowsheds got submerged in the waters of the reservoir built as part of the 120 megawatt Vyasi hydropower project in Vikas Nagar area here on Monday.

Villagers affected by the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti hydel project of THDC India on Friday allegedly attempted to immolate themselves in protest against the forcible demolition of their homes near the project site, police said.

The government has not given permission to any new hydroelectric project in the Upper Ganges region in the last six years, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Two more bodies were recovered from the flood ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site, taking the death toll in the calamity in Uttarakhand to 67 even as search operations continued there for the 15th day on Sunday.

Three more bodies were recovered from the NTPC's flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site on Saturday, taking the death count in the February 7 glacial disaster in Uttarakhand to 65, officials said.

One more body has been recovered from a flood-hit area in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, taking the number of deaths in the glacial disaster to 62, even as search and rescue operations continued on Friday for the 13th day at the NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site.

The families of workers missing from the Rishiganga hydel project site created a ruckus here on Wednesday accusing the authorities of not carrying out the rescue operations properly after the sudden flood in the Alaknanda river system wreaked havoc.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said he came under sharp attack as environment minister when he stopped hydel projects on rivers in Uttarakhand as the cumulative impact of the projects were not taken into consideration.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at 30 locations linked to former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in a probe linked to alleged corruption in the awarding of a contract for a hydel projects.

Ten people, including five employees of the forest department, were trapped at the Kol Dam Hydel Project in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district on Sunday, officials said.

A mini-hydel plant developed by a 34-year-old man using bamboos has drawn the attention of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

Residents of 14 villages of Darma valley in Pithoragarh have risen in protest against a proposed 165 MW hydro-electricity project in the area fearing that its construction will push them into the throes of a Joshimath-like crisis.

A 12-kilometer long tunnel connected to the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project is 1 kilometers away from Joshimath town and at least a kilometer below the ground, state-owned NTPC has told the power ministry explaining its project has no role in

The situation worsened, and now over 600 families are being evacuated from Joshimath after a temple collapsed, and several houses developed wide cracks.

Shehbaz Sharif was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to lay the foundation stones for various projects that will improve road, hydel and power infrastructure.

With teary eyes, residents of Lohari village looked on helplessly as their homes, farmlands and cowsheds got submerged in the waters of the reservoir built as part of the 120 megawatt Vyasi hydropower project in Vikas Nagar area here on Monday.

Villagers affected by the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti hydel project of THDC India on Friday allegedly attempted to immolate themselves in protest against the forcible demolition of their homes near the project site, police said.

The government has not given permission to any new hydroelectric project in the Upper Ganges region in the last six years, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Two more bodies were recovered from the flood ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site, taking the death toll in the calamity in Uttarakhand to 67 even as search operations continued there for the 15th day on Sunday.

Three more bodies were recovered from the NTPC's flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site on Saturday, taking the death count in the February 7 glacial disaster in Uttarakhand to 65, officials said.

One more body has been recovered from a flood-hit area in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, taking the number of deaths in the glacial disaster to 62, even as search and rescue operations continued on Friday for the 13th day at the NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site.

The families of workers missing from the Rishiganga hydel project site created a ruckus here on Wednesday accusing the authorities of not carrying out the rescue operations properly after the sudden flood in the Alaknanda river system wreaked havoc.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said he came under sharp attack as environment minister when he stopped hydel projects on rivers in Uttarakhand as the cumulative impact of the projects were not taken into consideration.