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 Centre has identified 22 river stretches in the northeastern States which could be developed for cargo transportation. “The identified river stretches have been shared with the concerned State governments and they have been requested to send proposals for assistance. So far only three proposals have been received, one of …
Huge garbage including that from sacrificial animals is being dumped into the Puratan Brahmaputra River at Puran Godaraghat in the town, adding to serious pollution of the already dying river. The callous act has continued since October 17, much to the nuisance of around 1400 families living in the slums …
NEARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
Nearly one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
With the China factor looming large, the Centre is belatedly trying to make up for lost time in setting up hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra’s Siang Basin in Arunachal Pradesh. China spikes India's proposal for joint mechanism on Brahmaputra Of the 25 projects totalling over 11,000 MW allotted to developers …
Around 300 people were rendered homeless as erosion by Brahmaputra river washed away their villages in Morigaon district Monday morning. The homeless people have taken shelter on the nearby highland, while erosion continued to pose a threat to the area. Meanwhile, Assam State Disaster Management Authority said over 2,500 are …
Extreme weather events ‐ Rainfall - a presentation by R. Krishnan at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim today with over four lakh people affected by the overflowing Brahmaputra and its tributaries in 13 districts with the rhino habitats Kaziranga National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuaries inundated. At least 600 villages were affected in the districts of Bongaigaon, Barpeta, …
The team arrived with three speed motor boats, rubber boats, lifesaving jackets and other life saving gadgets etc Water level of the Brahmaputra river was flowing above the danger level at several places affecting more than 45 villages in Assam's Jorhat district, official sources said today. The water was flowing …
Thousands of people in several villages of Chilmari upazila are passing their days amid fear as the flood control embankment faces a severe threat of erosion. The villages include Saroktari, Kachkol, Nayagram, Uttar Khamer, Dakkhin Khamer, Sarderpara and Majhipara, said an official of Water Development Board (WDB) in the district. …
The Supreme Court on Monday gave two weeks time to the Assam Government to file an affidavit over the Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Project (LSHEP). Taking up a prayer petition filled by Assam Public Works (APW) over the big dam in Assam, a two member bench of Justice BS Chauhan …
China has cleared three dam projects on Brahmaputra mainstream in Tibet, the Government today said. “The recently released ‘Outline of the 12th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China’ indicates that three dam projects on the main stream of the Brahmaputra river in …
Unabated erosions by 12 rivers, including the Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla, have taken a turn for the worse, leaving some 3,400 families of over 100 villages in five upazilas of the district homeless over the last three months. According to sources at the local Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, the …
KURIGRAM : Unabated erosions by 12 rivers, including the Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla, have taken a turn for the worse, leaving some 3,400 families of over 100 villages in five upazilas of the district homeless over the last three months, reports UNB. According to sources at the local Department of …
Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met, a study predicted on Sunday.The health of glaciers in the Himalayas is a closely-watched issue, as they supply vital meltwater to a region facing surging …
Based on a report by the Dhubri Deputy Commissioner to the Border Areas Department, the department took up the issue of erosion with the Union Home Ministry. The department sent three anti–erosion schemes worth Rs 2.70 crore (Tistarpar along the Gangadhar river), Rs 7.26 crore (Binnachara along the Gangadhar river) …
In view of the perennial and crippling flood and erosion problem faced by Assam, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday vouched for an international river authority comprising India, China, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal to set up coordination to tackle the common challenges posed by the river systems these countries share, …
Over 25 villages were flooded in the district affecting thousands of people Assam's flood situation remained critical today with 11 districts reeling under the water of the swollen Brahmaputra and its tributaries affecting over one lakh people. Heavy rainfall in the catchment areas of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh has caused river …
The rain-fed mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries flowing above the danger level across Assam have hit nearly one lakh people inundating human habitations and farm land in ten districts. Dhemaji was the worst affected district. Incessant rainfall in the catchment areas of the state’s upper reaches and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh …
The first wave of floods in Assam has claimed one life, affected nearly 68,000 people, submerged rhino habitats at Kaziranga and Pobitora and overrun vast tracks of human habitation and farm land. A 12-year old boy was dragged away by the high current of the Brahmaputra at Jengpuri village in …
