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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Al Jazeera

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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:

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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.

Reuters

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Reuters

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 Times of India

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

Two units are scheduled to be commissioned later this fiscal

The Hindu

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.

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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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Bijili Mahotsav held at Changanassery

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Modi to dedicate NTPC’s floating solar project on July 30

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The Hindu

Kerala High Court upholds recruitment eligibility conditions in NTPC

Appeal against single judge’s order

The Times of India

Deputy general manager dies by suicide on NTPC premises in Dadri

GREATER NOIDA: A deputy general manager at the National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) plant in Dadri was found dead on his office campus on Friday.

The Times of India

NTPC clocks 21.7% growth in power generation in June quarter

NEW DELHI: State-run power giant NTPC Ltd on Monday said it has registered a 21.7 per cent growth in electricity generation at 104.4 billion units (BU) in the April-June quarter of this financial year.

The Times of India

Uttarakhand: 1 more body recovered from Tapovan hydel plant

DEHRADUN: One more body was recovered on Friday from the NTPC tunnel at the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project site in Chamoli, which was ravaged by the flash flood caused due to glacier burst in February last year.

The Hindu

100 MW NTPC floating solar plant at Ramagundam fully operational

Last part, 20 MW, of the total capacity goes on stream on Friday

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