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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

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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