Nepal's ministry of water resources has threatened the Bhote Koshi Power Company (BKPC), the first privately funded US power project in the country, with punitive action. Responding to the findings
Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has grand plans to illuminate the whole country by now harnessing hydropower from the northeast region. His logic: hydropower projects will usher in local development. But local communities find this logic alienating. T
In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast track development into what the state officially calls a cut off region hills submerged by the stilled waters of h
green light given: The Central Electricity Authority has granted the final techno-economic clearance (TEC) to the North-Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) to execute the 1500-megawatt