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 erosion and flood-hit citizens of the districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia have decided to drag the State government to Court if the former failed to respond with immediate remedial measures. A general convention held at Natya Mandir in Amollapatty here involving representatives of various non-governmental organisations, youth organisations and …
Agartala, June 15 (IANS): China's reported plans of construction of a dam over the Brahmaputra river and diverting water to its arid regions were on Tuesday strongly opposed by Congress legislators in the Tripura Assembly. "Building of dam over the Brahmaputra river and diversion of water will not only adversely …
The Himalayan glaciers that feed Asia's five largest rivers are in no danger of disappearing by 2035, as claimed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent report. In fact, only the glaciers that melt into the Ganges are shrinking, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how …
Several evidences show that during the 2004 Sumatra Andaman earthquake, the rupture in the Andaman region did not extend up to the trench. Consistent with the earthquake processes at several subduction zones of the world,
Fighting for water is not as rare as we think it is. Brawls and loss of life are reported every summer from different parts of the country. Yet, there is very little urgency about using water more efficiently. VIBHA SHARMA reports on the worsening situation * DIAMONDS AND OIL ETC …
GUWAHATI, June 2: A concept paper on the Brahmaputra river system and management based on hydrology and hydraulic will be prepared by German scientist Prof Wolfgang Flugel in association with Prof Nayan Sarma, head of the department, Water Resource Department and Management, IIT, Rourkee. The two scientists today demonstrated the …
ICIMOD, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, has undertaken an assessment of trends, perceptions, and impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayan region and, in the process, sought a broad consensus on climate-change impacts on ecosystem and adaptation measures. This paper is part of the broader assessment …
NEW DELHI: There were reports of China making dams in Tibet region of Brahmaputra which will severely affect the North-East especially Assam and Bangladesh downstream, but Beijing always maintained that the dam is meant only for power and irrigation and would not affect the downstream countries. But it has come …
NEW DELHI, May 26 ? Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) today cleared a proposal for construction of a bridge over river Brahmaputra linking Sadiya Ghat with Dhola. The project is estimated to cost Rs 876 crore. Official sources said that the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and …
The Assam Power Projects Development Company Pvt Ltd (APPDCL), a joint venture company on Tuesday signed two small hydro power implementation agreements with two companies. The projects are to be implemented under the public private partnership (PPP) mode and commissioned by April 2012. Pahumara small hydro power project of 2 …
DIBRUGARH, May 17: The Centre should declare flood and erosion as a national problem, asserted the Axam Xahitya Xabha (AXX) today. In a press meet here today, AXX president Rongbong Terang referred to his visit to Nagaghuli and Mohanaghat with others and said that the State Government should act immediately. …
Ron Duarah DIBRUGARH, May 13 ? Even as the Brahmaputra flows menacingly and threatens to erode major chunks of its banks on either side throughout Assam, the state Water Resources Department has been found wanting to meet emergencies. It is just that the erosion has not yet seriously affected major …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: China's official media have now waded into the controversy surrounding Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh's remarks in Beijing, praising him for speaking out against restrictions on Chinese companies but criticising his comments on Chinese dams on the Brahmaputra river. The state-run English-language China …
Call it red-tapeism or lukewarm response, the delay in executing the proposed geo-fabric technology to arrest erosion along the banks of the Brahmaputra is allowing the river swallow vast stretches of the land near Rohmoria yet again. After the recent massive erosion at Nagaghuli and Panbari, the river is now …
