MoEF puts brakes on Dhari Devi relocation

Advertisement professional Anushee Singh and her colleagues were working late on a project at Alaknanda in South Delhi when hunger pangs revealed the obvious it was past midnight and they had missed dinner. "Our favourite pizza outlets wouldn't ...

A life-sustaining river, GANGES was formed at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers at the foothills of the Himalayas, flowing along a 2,500 kilometre long course to the Bay of Bengal. Epitomising the ethos of India, the magical ...

Hydropower project developer asked to wait for Supreme Court decision The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Friday issued orders to stop the work to raise the level of the Dhari Devi temple. The temple will be submerged when the Shrinagar ...

NEW DELHI: With the municipal corporations and PWD at loggerheads over major drains, the South corporation isn't allowing any silt to be dumped in its sanitary landfill site. Three weeks ago, PWD started de-silting the Alaknanda drain but the mounds ...

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In what comes as a blow to many environmentalists, activists and members of the religious fraternity, the Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for the uplift of the Dhari Devi temple by the Alaknanda Hydro Power Company Ltd (AHPCL). On May 10, the ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Uma Bharti on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and appealed him to direct the government to ensure uninterrupted flow of Ganga downstream from Tehri dam and save Dhari Devi temple in Uttarakhand from submergence due to construction of a dam. Bharti, who has been involved for the last few months in a campaign to protect the Ganga, apprised Mukherjee of the need for ensuring uninterrupted flow of Ganga downstream from Tehri dam. In a ...

Gas shortage has knocked the stuffing out of GVK Power and Infra as the company ended FY13 with a loss of Rs 335 crore, four times higher than the previous year. Two projects Jegurupadu (phase 2) and Gautami, that have a capacity to produce 680 MW, ...

Two projects Jegurupadu (phase 2) and Gautami, that have capacity to produce 680 megawatt (mw), are completely shut since February. No solution to the fuel shortage problem is in sight. GVK's problems are compounded by debt taken in more bullish ...