A decade after the Central Water Commission (CWC) recommended two additional spillways on the left and right dykes of Hirakud ...

Tendu leaf is one of the most important non–wood forest products of Sambalpur and is also called as green gold of Odisha. Only 15 kms north of Sambalpur, Hirakud Dam, the longest earthen dam of the ...

JEYPORE: The Upper Kolab irrigation project authorities have postponed water release for rabi season cultivation from January 5 to January 10, responding to farmers’ concerns about incomplete ...

The ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam across the Brahmaputra at the Great Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, has been in the drawing ...

An Indian-origin woman, adopted by a Spanish couple, returns to Odisha to find her biological mother after being abandoned 20 years ago. Abandoned by her mother 20 years ago and adopted by a ...

On completion, the 60,000 MW project will have the capacity to produce three times the amount of electricity as the world’s largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze in central China.

Gwen Van Dam, a veteran character actress of seven decades whose 140 credits spanned television, film and the Los Angeles stage, died Dec. 19 at her home in West LA. She was 96. Per previous ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Van Dam, who compiled about 140 acting credits on IMDb, died Dec. 19 at her home in West Los Angeles after a recurrence of cancer, her son, Dirk Smillie, told The ...

The High Court of Orissa recently organized the 1st All India Judges' Badminton Championship on the 4th and 5th of January 2025. The event brought together members of the judiciary, with judges ...

Days after Beijing cleared the construction of the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in lower riparian states India and Bangladesh, ...

The dam is only to divert the water to the tunnel, rather than create extra height and pressure. Jeff7 January 5, 2025 08:19 PM You just ignore the fact the dam is being built in Tibet.

"The Chinese side has been urged to ensure that the interests of downstream states of the Brahmaputra are not harmed by activities in upstream areas," he added.