GUWAHATI, Sept 5

The 450-MW Baglihar hydro electric power project on the Chenab river has commenced its test trials today, following the clean chit received from Pakistan.

"The project is likely to be commissioned by end of this month. But before that we have started test trials of its three turbines and first turbine was switched on," Power Development department Secretary Sandeep Naik told agencies.
The Baglihar project, which has three turbines of 150 MW each was started in 1999.

Building a barrage and an embankment to tame the turbulent Kosi was an unimaginative response to the flood problem by the Bihar Government, observes flood expert Dinesh Kumar Mishra.

Mishra, who is in Delhi to release his book, Trapped between the Devil and Deep Waters, explains how technological

Moving in the direction of generating power from the renewable energy sources, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) is encouraging private investors to set up projects in the fields of solar power, biomass, wind energy, small hydro and co-generation biomass power projects.

The agency invited proposals from private companies to harness small hydro power in three phases for generation of over 17-MW of power.

Sept 3: The Centre has asked the Mizoram to take a speedy decision on an NTPC proposal to set up 460-MW Kolodyne hydel power project in the north-eastern state at an investment of Rs 2,500 crore.
Public sector enterprise NTPC has submitted a proposal to the state government to develop the hydel project that promises

GUWAHATI, Sept 2

NUREK, Tajikistan: The inscription just above a tunnel at the foot of the colossal Nurek hydropower dam in south central Tajikistan is succinct: "Water Is Life." The frigid, frothing Vakhsh River rush

In the wake of protests against the proposed Rs 15,000-crore, 3000-Megawatt Dibang Multi-Purpose Project (DMP) near Roing in Arunachal Pradesh, the State

Glaring gaps in Gangotri glacial melt study Science seems to have been the casualty in the study on glacial retreat in Gangotri, source of the Ganga. The Uttarakhand government had commissioned a study to an expert committee in 2006. The committee came out with a report in December 2007, which scientists said was dated and