In a startling revelation, geologists from China have identified an active fault line beneath the Brahmaputra hydropower project, prompting...

Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh experienced heavy rainfall for 36 hours. Authorities opened all Giri Jaton Dam gates as water levels r...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link project. He stated initial challenges are ine...

India is undertaking one of the world's largest dam rehabilitation programs, DRIP, with significant progress made in improving the safety o...

A study by IISER Bhopal warns that dams and reservoirs in India have lost nearly half their storage due to sedimentation, cutting power gen...

India has 6,138 completed large dams, with 224 over a century old and 1,065 between 50 and 100 years old. To address aging dam safety, the ...

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India's Himalayan north. The flood has kill...

Global warming and rising variability in rainfall call for heightened capacity for storage reservoirs, focused watershed management and reg...

On October 28, a bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar had said that Tamil Nadu and Kerala would abide by water level notified by the expe...

The provisions of the bill is proposed to be applied to all specified dams in the country which have height of more than 15 metres, or betw...

The Tamil Nadu government urged the Centre to keep in abeyance its decision to enact a Dam Safety Bill, recalling it had earlier raised som...

The Bill provides for establishment of National Dam Safety Authority as a regulatory body which shall discharge functions to implement the ...

As large dams built just after Independence reach their sell-by dates, tough questions are being raised on India's need for aggressive inve...

The project cost has now been revised to around Rs 3,400 crore and the World Bank has agreed to fund 80% of that, DRIP director Pramod Nara...

New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) To improve its capacity to safeguard dams, the Central Water Commission (CWC) on Friday signed two separate MoUs w...

The institute has claimed that it played a pivotal role while providing recommendations to ensure safety and security of the dam during its...

Gujarat tops the list with 444 such dams/ reservoirs that fall under zone IV and V, followed by Maharashtra, which has 170 such water bodie...