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Tarbela Dam is located in Pakistan and is the world's largest fill-type dam.

It is built over the River Indus near the small town of Tarbela in the Haripur District.

Explanation

• The Tarbela Dam in Pakistan was built with the assistance of the World Bank.
• Tarbela Dam is one of the largest earth-filled dams in the world.
• Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in KPK.
• Installed capacity: 4,888 MW
• Height: 143 m
• Completed: 1976

Explanation

Tarbela Dam  is the largest earth-filled dam in the world

It is located in the Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

it is 485 feet (148 m) high above the Indus riverbed.

Its construction began in 1968

it was Completed in 1976

Construction was undertaken by the Italian firm Salini Impregilo.

Explanation

• The blades spin at high speed and compress or squeeze the air.
• The compressed air is then sprayed with fuel and an electric spark lights the mixture.
• The burning gases expand and blast out through the nozzle, at the back of the engine.
• As the jets of gas shoot backward, the engine and the aircraft are thrust forward

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Tarbela Dam is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in swabi  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Tarbela Dam is the largest earth-filled dam in the world, and also the largest dam by structural volume

Tarbela Dam Construction began in 1968  and  Opening date 1976

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Location Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Construction began 02 May 2019

Opening date Nov 2024

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The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the Indus River situated at Alchi village, 75 kilometres from Leh in the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh.