Hitting The Roof
After hiking the power tariff by 139 per cent in the last five years, the PDD has proposed to raise tariffs by 13 to...
WATERED DOWN
The dispute over use of Kashmir waters is heating up Indo-Pak relations raking up threats of war and a lot of propaganda. Iftikhar Gilani...
Highway Hangover
The existence of Baglihar Power Project consumed its namesake village forever not before giving name, fame and prosperity to Chanderkote. Fifteen years after the...
Innovative bid
Its first impact on ground was chief minister Omar Abdullah filing a defamation suit against PDP leaders Nizamuddin Bhat and spokesman Naem Akhter for...
Lower Jhelum: Before It Roars
After traversing most of Kashmir, the Jhelum leaves the Vale generating the cheapest bulk energy at Gantamula, reports Sameer Yasir
The Lower Jhelum Hydel Power...
Getting double boost
The project is situated in Sani Zanskar village on Haftal nalla, a tributary of Zanskar River. Completed at a cost of rupees 422.05 lac...
Altering Ratle
An 850-MW power project within less than three-km radius is a prized possession. After state government experimented with the Chenab basin Ratle project near...
NHPC In Focus
India’s hydropower giant NHPC is again under spotlight. While the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) at the Hague has barred it to raise any...
Kishanganga: Chronology Of A Case (1)
This is how the case was built by India and Pakistan in the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague, Netherlands
May 17, 2010
Pakistan moves...
Throttling Rattle
Omar Abdullah government innovated tariff-based bidding and gave Rattle for implementation on the lowest ever prospective tariff. More than two years later Tasavur Mushtaq...
Baglihar slips into NHPC hands
Water abundant but power deficit J&K commissioned its flagship Baglihar project after fighting many ‘wars’ against nature, Pakistan, and a discouraging system. As generation...
Negotiating Power
Public discourse over J&K’s energy crisis has brought NHPC into sharp focus. A cabinet sub-committee, that revisited the history of the company’s ‘exploitative’ relationship...
Transformers
Come winter and the power transformers will be in huge demand. Owing to the voltage fluctuations and massive load for lighting and heating, the...
Engaging NHPC
As certain information about NHPC’s operation in J&K were revealed through an RTI, Kashmir is back to its energy debate, singling out India’s hydropower...
Precious water
Post militancy, one of the major issues that crept into public discourse was the exploitation of the water resources initially by the restrictions imposed...
