Called the "Temple of a resurgent India" by first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhakra Dam completes 50 years Tuesday. A golden jubilee event is planned at Nangal, 110 km from here, by the ...

The Baba Garib Nath Temple has been submerged after the water level of the Bhakra Dam on Saturday reached 1,670 feet in the Una district, said the officials. The Himachal Police said that the Baba ...

For this temple of resurgent India - as Bhakra dam was referred to by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1963 on its inauguration - a relic of colonial era is still chugging its heavy past.

At the time of commissioning of the dam on October 22, 1963, Nehru called Bhakra the new temple of resurgent India and a symbol of India’s progress. One of the tallest straight gravity dams was ...

The Bhakra Dam in Himachal Pradesh ... benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence.” ...

Called the ‘Temple of a resurgent India’ by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhakra Dam completes 50 years on Tuesday. A golden jubilee event is planned at Nangal by the Bhakra Beas ...

Bhakra dam was completed in 1970s but 40 years later ... of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a temple or a gurdwara or a mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence".

At its dedication in 1963, Nehru famously called Bhakra, “the temple of a free India, at which I worship.” What future for dam-affected villagers? That veneration continues. India remains one ...

saying the services acted as a “lifeline” for the countless locals — many of whom had given up their homes and ancestral land to pave way for the Bhakra Dam project or the “temple of New ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab government and its police personnel not to interfere with the functioning and regulation of the Bhakra Nangal Dam, which is under ...

The central government took stern action, deploying Central Industrial Security Forces to protect the Bhakra Dam as the fresh cycle to water distribution started earlier today. Citing Punjab's ...

Chandigarh, Oct 21 (IANS) Called the "Temple of a resurgent India" by first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhakra Dam completes 50 years Tuesday. A golden jubilee event is planned at Nangal, 110 km ...