In Parliament, Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi raised concerns about China's plan to build the world's largest dam on the ...

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

BJP member Dilip Saikia has urged the Indian government to initiate discussions with China to halt the construction of a ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct a date related to an official visit. We regret the error. On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on ...

The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with construction carried out by the government-owned Power Construction Corporation of China. It will not only be one of China's ...

By embarking on building a super-dam, the largest ever conceived, in the seismically active Sino-Indian border region, China is potentially creating a ticking water bomb for millions of people ...

A big worry is that the dam will diminish the flow of water into India — China may build a monstrous reservoir and divert the water to other parts of that country. Lt Gen Palepu Ravi Shankar ...

On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet at a site near the "Great Bend" close to the ...

Tibet project estimated at 60GW would be nearly three times the size of China's Three Gorges Dam, pictured above, which began operating in 2006. Photo: "ThreeGorgesDam-China2009" by Le Grand ...

Mutual mistrust': China and India are a long way from a water-sharing agreement. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang ...

Downstream countries have reason to be concerned. The dam will be built close to China’s border with India. The Yarlung Zangbo, known outside China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, becomes the ...

The project, which will generate an estimated 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year, will have almost three times more installed capacity than what is now the world’s largest ...