The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
The Multi-track Water Diplomacy Framework specifies and tests a conceptual and analytical water diplomacy framework that identifies the key factors that affect water cooperation. Knowledge of these key determinants of cooperation not only contributes to the existing body of academic knowledge, but can also help to bolster cooperation over shared …
DIBRUGARH: Accusing the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) of violating effluent standards and polluting surrounding rivers and water bodies, Asom Gana Parishad (Anchalikatabadi Mancha) has sought an independent probe by an expert panel. The party in a press conference on Tuesday said the BCPL plant situated at Lepetkata in …
Groundwater abstraction from the transboundary Indo-Gangetic Basin comprises 25% of global groundwater withdrawals, sustaining agricultural productivity in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Recent interpretations of satellite gravity data indicate that current abstraction is unsustainable, yet these large-scale interpretations lack the spatio-temporal resolution required to govern groundwater effectively. Here we report …
BSF forced to shift outposts frequently, criminals taking full advantage, cattle smuggling on the rise Rampant land erosion by the mighty Brahmaputra is creating great difficulties for BSF jawans when it comes to patrolling the Indo-Bangla border. Due to the erosion problem, the BSF often has to change their border …
Hundreds of primary schools located along either bank of the Brahmaputra were flooded this monsoon. For several weeks, students of schools in flood-prone areas missed classes. To make matters worse, the state government set up relief camps in schools, further inconveniencing students and affecting classes. Such interruptions, frequent in a …
District administration sends team About 500 cattle died in a sandbar in Majuli on Tuesday. Veterinary officials said the cattle died due to consumption of some poisonous shrub following shortage of foods during floods in the island. The incident took place at Tikirai Chapori, a sandbar in central Majuli, about …
Mukul undertakes aerial survey of flood hit areas in Garo Hills Tura: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma carried out an aerial survey of the flood affected areas in the plains belt areas of West Garo Hills on Wednesday and announced gratuitous relief for 10 days for the affected population. Three local …
17 lakh affected in 21 districts, AASU demands special package from Centre There was no respite from floods in Assam on Wednesday with about 17 lakh people hit by the latest wave. The Brahmaputra is flowing above danger mark along Nimatighat, Tezpur, Goalpara, Dhubri and Guwahati. It tributaries like Buridihing, …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), with special emphasis on the role of Pollution Control Board of Assam (PCBA), paints a grim picture on environmental degradation in the Greater Guwahati Area. The report says that levels of dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand and total coliform …
Animals from the Kaziranga National Park+ , a World Heritage Site about 250 km from here, have started coming out in herds in search of elevated grounds as large swathe of the protected area has been inundated by the rising water of Brahmaputra. Park officials said over 70 percent of …
Authorities have moved over 15,000 more people to relief camps in the Assam and the neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh Two people were reportedly killed as the flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Saturday as the Brahmaputra and several of its tributaries inundated more villages in the last 24 …
MORIGAON (Assam): As Assam continues to reel under the devastating impact of floods, the Brahmaputra river has submerged 60 per cent of the rhino habitat Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary located in Morigaon district near Guwahati. The floods have also damaged around 50 per cent infrastructure of the Sanctuary which is the …
Nearly 90,000 people have been affected in the latest wave of floods across seven districts in Assam. Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) sources said more than 88,000 people are reeling under flood in 257 villages across Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Nagaon, Jorhat, Golaghat, Morigaon and Biswanath districts. Currently, Brahmaputra is flowing …
Guwahati: Heavy rain in most parts of upper Assam has led to a rise in the Brahmaputra's water level, inundating four districts and over 80,500 people till Monday. "The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat, Tezpur in Sonitpur, Dhansiri in Golaghat and Jia Bharali at …
Guwahati: Assam was hit by a second wave of floods on Tuesday, a week after the south-west monsoon arrived in the northeast on June 14. More than 9,000 people have been affected till Wednesday, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority said. The affected districts are Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Karbi Anglong …
Guwahati: Assam government has decided to constitute an expert committee to be sent to China for studying the Yellow River (Huwang He) Management Strategies and prepare a road map to stop flood and erosion caused by the Brahmaputra river here. Chairing a high-level review meeting of the Water Resources Department, …
Assam's Guwahati became the first city in the country to have its own city animal with the district administration declaring the Gangetic river dolphin as the mascot. In a press conference, Kamrup metropolitan deputy commissioner M Angamuthu said that the animal, locally known as 'Sihu', would be the city animal …
As water scarcity in both China and India worsens, the competition over shared water resources in their transboundary rivers, particularly the Brahmaputra River, is set to intensify. Without an effective working mechanism between the two countries, water conflicts could potentially become a serious challenge to Sino-Indian relations. Nonetheless, the water …
GUWAHATI: All Assam Congress Committee (APCC) on Tuesday organized a volunteers' meet on Global Climate Change and its impact on Assam. What is unique about the meeting is that it is held in boats on the Brahmaputra river in the Baghbar area of Barpeta district in the middle of flood …
Caught in India-China race to tap power potential of Brahmaputra As India and China race to tap — or literally dam — the 97,000-MW hydro-power potential of the Brahmaputra/Tsangpo river, the people of Arunachal Pradesh look askance. They have two issues. First, there is no water-sharing treaty between the two …
