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 …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: India will not accept any plans by China to divert the Brahmaputra river waters, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Sunday even as he urged the Government of India to expedite hydel projects along the river in Arunachal Pradesh. China is …
DIBRUGARH, May 9: Monsoon every year brings reminders of the proximity of the Brahmaputra to Dibrugarh. Large chunks of land disappear under water, rousing fears about the fate of the town. Erosion has become a reality for the people of the area since the 1950s. The great earthquake in the …
The Ministry of Environment and Forest hinted that water flow in the Indian rivers especially Brahmaputra and Ganga rivers were at risk because of shrinkage of glaciers in Tibet. The studies conducted by the Geological Survey of India indicate that the glaciers of Himalaya are receding at varying rates in …
DIBRUGARH, April 30: The erosion at Nagaghuli here by River Brahmaputra is going on unabated. The Superintendent of Police Abjijit Bora visited the area. Meanwhile, the locals of the area put up bamboo porcupine here today. They decided to take some initiative to counter this problem yesterday after the apathetic …
IN A significant development on the Sino-India water front, India and China have agreed to share hydrological data for the river Brahmaputra starting this monsoon season. The implementation plan was signed after the fourth meeting of the India-China expert mechanism on trans-border rivers, which took place from April 26 to …
Assam Congress has called for declaring erosion as a national problem. In a letter to Union Minister for Water Resources Paban Kumar Bansal, Congress Lok Sabha Chief whip Paban Singh Ghatowar said erosion is one of the major problems of Assam. The State has lost 4 lakh hectares of cultivable …
India and China have signed an agreement for sharing flood-related hydrological data for Brahmaputra during the monsoon season. The agreement follows the renewal of an MoU between the two countries during the visit of the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Beijing in 2008.
HATSINGIMARI, April 25: Assam Agriculture Minister Promila Rani Brahma recently visited Hatsingimari and the erosion and cyclone-hit areas under Mankachar Revenue circle in Dhubri district. Brahma, during the trip, visited the bund-cum-border road in Kokrading and Kalir Alga village where the border road is facing serious threat of erosion. It …
Union External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Thursday that China had assured a hydel dam it was building on river Brahmaputra will have no impact on the downstream flow of the river into India and China also will not store water. Stating this in the Rajya Sabha, he also …
Assam is counting on boro rice to achieve the target of 46.7 lakh-metric tonnes that it has set for the crop this year. And given the increasing unpredictability of floods, the state is in a hurry to reap the harvest before the Brahmaputra goes wild this season.
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: China has assured India that the dam it is building at Zangmu will have no impact on the water downstream of the Brahmaputra river in India, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna informed Parliament on Thursday. Replying to Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP) during question hour, Mr. Krishna …
The entire North-East India and Bengal will face more problems in near future as the geographical variations on the coastal lines of Bangladesh is posing the threat of its total extinction in the future. When the crores of Bangladeshis enter the NE India and Bengal adjacent to its borders, what …
Ends Years Of Denial Despite Evidence New Delhi: After several years of denying the existence of any river project on the Brahmaputra, China has finally admitted to India that they are indeed building a hydropower project on the river. The admission, made for the first time by Chinese officials to …
New Delhi: The Government on Monday conceded that the power generation in various hydro-electric schemes in the Brahmaputra would be 'adversely affected' during the lean flow months in the event of China diverting water before the mighty river takes a hair pin bend and flows into Arunachal Pradesh as Siang. …
Beijing: The massive earthquake in northwest China on Wednesday has raised serious questions about a hydro-electric project planned by the Chinese government near the mouth of Brahmaputra inside its territory just a few kilometres from the border with Arunachal Pradesh. Experts have often questioned China
Two mega hydroelectric power projects of National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) have come under the scanner of a House Committee of Assam Assembly that has recommended a temporary freeze on construction activity. The House panel was constituted to study and examine the downstream …
