Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

Despite protests from locals, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam.

Sacred River Faces Industrial Transformation The Siang River, considered sacred by the Adi tribal community in Arunachal Pradesh, is at the center of a heated controversy. India plans to construct its ...

China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India. This announcement was far from ...

and the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, as revealed at the third plenary session of the 12th People's Congress of the Xizang autonomous region. The six regions cover a combined area of approximately ...

The quake brings focus on China’s latest plan to build the World’s biggest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River ... navigation activities in the Brahmaputra basin. The central government has ...

Proposed across the Yarlung Tsangpo (the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra ... inter-ministerial group anticipating the crisis in 2012 and recommending a Brahmaputra River Basin Board. Both Gogoi and ...

The Yarlung Zangbo River flows as the Brahmaputra in India and Jamuna in Bangladesh and is popularly known as Siang/Dihang in Arunachal Pradesh. The Brahmaputra Basin spreads over four countries ...

High on the Tibetan Plateau, the Yarlung Tsangpo River roars through the world’s deepest canyon, plunging nearly 8,000 metres (26,250ft) before crossing into India as the Brahmaputra.

The Chinese government’s announcement of the construction of a dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river (which is the Brahmaputra river), and the creation of two new counties in north-eastern Ladakh ...