Why Manipur is flooded

The state's worst flood in recent history raises doubts over the role of dams

Sardar Patel statue project has no green clearance: activists

 MoEF asked to declare Statue of Unity project illegal and stop construction

SC clears way for dam oustees to get land in Narmada Valley

But landless will not get it

Power Point

Experts have given conflicting reports on the Tehri dam

Deluge

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

Thermal power plants in Singrauli, Sonbhadra under NGT radar again

In July 14, 2020 order, the tribunal orders remedial action against thermal power plants; directs NTPC Vindhyachal to pay Rs 10 cr in …

Tehri: is it curtains?

The beginning of submergence of Tehri also marked the drowning of anti-dam sentiments. Any strong protest was conspicuous by its absence. Does …

Kerala government gives go-ahead to Athirappally hydel power project

Decision elicits angry response from a cross-section of society

‘People often talk of the Gandhian model of development, but if such a model is genuinely Gandhian then it is not about development’

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection. However what he said and did makes him an environmentalist. His writings are replete …

An oasis put to test

Backed by three decades of water conservation measures, semi-arid Saurashtra is driving Gujarat’s agricultural growth. Will it be able to …

Women protesting GMR's hydel project charged with 'inciting communal riots'

Shifting of 15 km-long tunnel and the power house of Bajoli Holi project in Himachal from the right bank of the Ravi river to the left bank will …

Union Budget 2015-16: Andhra asks Centre to fulfill promises made during bifurcation

Revenue deficit of the state for the next five years is around Rs 100,000 crore

Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village

Village in arms

Village gets community rights over forest submerged by dam

A portion of reservoir given for management and fishing

Andhra to challenge Krishna tribunal award in Supreme Court

Final award on sharing Krishna waters takes away most of the surplus water given to the state by earlier tribunal

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow

Madhya Pradesh government lied about rehabilitating people affected by Maheshwar dam

State now tells green tribunal that developer did not release sufficient funds for resettlement and rehabilitation work

The god of ecological things

A dark tunnel

Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …

Maheshwar dam land acquisition award lapses as developer fails to cough up rehabilitation amount

Officials not clear about the fate of the project

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

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