NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Brahmaputra in India, concerns have inevitably surged about the possible ...

South Asia is one of the most water-stressed regions in the world, with water in short supply in many parts of it, at least ...

In remote char areas of Kurigram, hope has long ebbed away with the shifting currents of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries.

Himachal Pradesh is blessed with abundant water resources. It is home to five major river basins fed by numerous tributaries.

Summer monsoon floods (June–September) are a leading cause of infrastructure damage and fatalities in India, necessitating skillful river stage forecasts for flood mitigation. To address this, the ...

The commissioning process of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric project coming up on Subansiri, a tributary of Brahmaputra has ...

NEW DELHI: The Union government has prepared a Rs 6.4 trillion ($77 billion) transmission plan to transfer more than 76 gigawatts of hydroelectric capacity from the Brahmaputra basin by 2047 to meet ...

On remote river islands in eastern India’s Assam state, solar power is helping children access education more reliably, reports Mongabay India’s Shailesh Shrivastava. Schools in Assam’s Brahmaputra ...