Dam Project
-
Environment ministry panel defers clearance to a Madhya Pradesh dam part of Ken-Betwa interlinking
The expert committee has sought fresh data to study the anticipated impact on the environment and finalise if a new public hearing is required.
Mayank Aggarwal
-
The Centre’s proposal to build a mega dam in Arunachal Pradesh makes even hydropower companies wary
The 10,000-megawatt project on the Siang river would ‘submerge the district headquarters of Upper Siang district’.
Arunabh Saikia
-
Ahead of Modi’s visit, villagers protest as Sardar Sarovar Dam project submerges their homes
Activist Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan, which led the ‘Jal Satyagaraha’ agitation, claimed that people continued to stay in their flooded houses.
Scroll Staff
Trending
-
Supreme Court questions ED on timing of Arvind Kejriwal arrest, says life and liberty important
-
Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
-
Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
-
Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
-
Indore Congress candidate backed out days after attempt-to-murder charge added to 17-year-old case
-
Uttarakhand is building a dam over an area larger than Chandigarh – and people are protesting
The proposed India-Nepal 5,040 MW Pancheshwar project aims to produce more power than all existing dams in the state.
Hridayesh Joshi
-
Damned if you do: As history is repeated on Narmada, those displaced in 1990 serve as a warning
Those who lost their homes and land to the Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh 27 years ago still do not have roads or electricity in their new villages.
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
-
Plan to revive Jharkhand dam with bloody past poses threat to people, wildlife
Several villages and parts of a tiger reserve can be submerged by the irrigation project.
Alok Gupta
Video
-
Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
-
Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
-
Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
-
Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
-
Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song