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GEM workshop concludes at NTPC, Kayamkulam

As many as 38 students from various government schools close to NTPC, Kayamkulam, attended the residential camp.

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: At 69, he appeared for NEET to pursue his passion for medicine

Relaxation in the NEET upper age limit proves to be a boon for D.K.A.S. Prasad of Visakhapatnam, who retired as DGM from NTPC-Simhadri

The Hindu

NTPC: Shivam Srivastava appointed as Director-Fuel

India's largest public sector power company, NTPC, appointed Shivam Srivastava as Director-Fuel of the company with effect from April 30. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Cracked walls, ‘repeat of Joshimath’: Scrapped NTPC project triggers sleepless nights in Uttarkashi homes

Pratima Devi unhooked a yellow sari draping a wall, in one of the five rooms of her house, to reveal a crack four inch wide in the cornice. Though out of sight, it has never been out of her mind – especially when it rains.

Newslaundry

NTPC arm signs pact with Indian Army for setting up green hydrogen plants

NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd (NTPC REL), an arm of NTPC Ltd, has signed an agreement with the Indian Army. Read further on Dynamite News

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Bihar to get additional 405 MW of electricity, as NTPC synchronises one more 660 MW unit at its Barh plant

PATNA: Bihar will soon get additional 405 megawatts of electricity, as one more 660 MW unit of NTPC Barh Stage-I at Barh in Patna district was successfully synchronised with the grid on Sunday.

The Times of India

NTPC registered nearly 12 percent growth in electricity generation

State-owned power giant NTPC on has logged nearly 12 per cent growth in electricity generation. Read further on Dynamite News

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‘A time bomb’: India’s sinking holy town faces grim future

For months, residents in Joshimath, a holy town burrowed high up in India’s Himalayan mountains, have seen their homes slowly sink

The Independent UK

Month later, rehabilitation eludes residents in India’s Joshimath

As houses and roads began to crack, about 240 families were temporarily relocated and many others fled Himalayan town.

Al Jazeera

Cracks begin to show in India's Himalayan building spree

One morning 18 months ago, Jaswant Singh Butola woke to find hairline cracks had spread up the walls of his house, which overlooks a railway being built to take pilgrims to Himalayan holy sites in India near the border with China.

Reuters

Subsidence spurs checks on India's hydro push

Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling -- a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC.

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Projects worth over Rs 12,000 crore: Joshimath’s journey from ‘development’ to disaster

If it had been a typical January, Auli would be bustling with tourists. Every year, crowds throng the Uttarakhand hill station for skiing, cable car rides, trekking, or simply to soak in the raw beauty of its location.

Newslaundry

NTPC faces local ire in Joshimath, authorities probe its ‘role’

Forced to leave damaged houses, residents in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath are now expressing their anger against the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited – a state-owned energy giant facing allegations that one of its projects contributed to subsidence in the area.

Newslaundry

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India’s hydropower push

Locals blame the damage on a hotel construction boom and tunneling for a nearby hydroelectric project.

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Joshimath Land Subsidence Case: Locals Protest Against NTPC, Seek Their Withdrawal From State

Locals in Joshimath on Tuesday protested against National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) seeking their withdrawal from the state. Read on for details:

Reuters

India to demolish buildings in sinking Himalayan town

India will demolish some buildings in a northern Himalayan town near its border with China after evacuating families in the past few days, an official said on Tuesday, as hundreds of homes have developed cracks in an area thronged by pilgrims.

Al Jazeera

Demolitions begin in India’s ‘sinking’ Joshimath, hundreds moved

Authorities will demolish buildings in Himalayan town after evacuating families as hundreds of houses develop cracks.

Reuters

India makes inroads into Sri Lanka under China's long shadow

When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach.

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NTPC going nuclear as focus shifts on small reactors in climate fight

NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC, the country’s largest coal-fired power producer, is going nuclear as the government shifts focus on the nascent SMR (smaller modular reactor) technology in search of clean energy for achieving net zero by 2070.

The Hindu

2×800 MW 1st stage of NTPC-TSTPP in advance stages of completion

Two units are scheduled to be commissioned later this fiscal

The Times of India

PM Modi’s nuclear power push gains traction with new plants on way

NEW DELHI: India’s largest power producer is looking to develop another massive nuclear project just weeks after announcing its entry into the sector, a sign that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expansion into atomic energy is gaining momentum.

The Hindu

Contract workers injured in lathicharge at NTPC Ramagundam

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Contract labour union’s agitation illegal: NTPC

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Bijli Mahotsav: Spotlight on future energy development across UP

VARANASI: A Bijli Mahotsav (electricity festival) –‘Ujjawal India, Ujjawal Bhavishya, Power @ 2047 was organized at the NTPC Singrauli, Shaktinagar in Sonbhadra district on Friday. Under the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Ministry of Power, Government of India is organizing “Ujjawal India, Ujjawal Bhavishya,…

The Hindu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches floating solar power plant at NTPC-Kayamkulam

India aims to create 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by this year, says Modi

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