Dehradun/Rudrapur: Five people drowned in separate incidents while bathing in rivers, a dam, and a reservoir in Nainital, ...

Moreover, cutting of the hills for construction and increased rains due to the increased catchment area of the Tehri Dam have also increased Uttarakhand’s vulnerability to natural calamities.

However, some dams remain at critically low levels, raising concern over water supply in certain regions including Bulawayo and the Matabeleland region with Inyankuni Dam at 9,8%, Lower Ncema ...

Located at an altitude of 2,700 meters, the Chandrabadni Temple is a sacred Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Chandrabadni. The temple offers breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and ...

As the Delhi-NCR region and Uttarakhand fall in seismic zone 5, the danger is greater as Tehri Dam, one of the world’s largest dams, is also located here. The geologists stated that if an ...

But leave she did, time and again, for tasks even more acute, ever more urgent. Plans were afoot since the mid-1970s to build a big dam at Tehri, on the Bhagirathi River, source headstream of the ...

South Africa’s overall dam levels have increased week-on-week from 80.6% to 81.2% as above-normal rainfall persists. The Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) hydrology report on the ...

This week’s hydrology report on the status of water reservoirs released by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) shows that the country’s dam levels have increased from 80.6% to 81.2%. This ...

Beyond environmental battles, she led efforts against liquor shops harming rural communities and fiercely opposed the Tehri Dam, spotlighting the human costs of large-scale development. Eschewing fame ...

The Israeli website “Nzif”, specializing in military analysis, published a speculative report on what an attack on the High Dam in Aswan, southern Egypt would look like in the event of a full-out war.

On January 27, 2025, an expert committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change recommended a proposal to rebuild the Teesta-3 dam on the Teesta river in Sikkim.

In mid-December, China marked the thirtieth anniversary of the official inauguration of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world’s largest hydroelectric project (in terms of ...