"Let's dismantle this myth, not with fear, but with facts and national clarity," Mr Sarma wrote, pointing out that the Brahmaputra is a river that grows in India, not one that shrinks due to ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has sternly countered a water-related scare narrative by Pakistan, dismissing it as a baseless attempt to stir fear over a hypothetical situation over ...

India is also building a 11,000 MW hydropower project on the Siang River, as an answer to China’s proposed 60,000 MW dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet — the upstream of the Brahmaputra ...

The river is taking away land faster than ever." AKHM Saidur Rahman, chairman of Char Shoulmari Union Parishad, said at least 60 houses have already been lost to the Brahmaputra in four weeks ...

When Ismail Serageldin, then Vice President of the World Bank, warned in 1995 that “the wars of the next century will be fought over water,” few took him seriously. Today, that foresight reverberates ...

Sandwip appears on the historical stage in 1569. That year, on his way back from Pegu, a cyclone caused Cesare Federici's ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – India has strongly urged China to ensure that its upstream activities on the Brahmaputra River do not adversely impact downstream states, following reports of a mega dam ...

Union Home minister Amit Shah has released the Flood Hazard Zonation Atlas of Assam during the annual conference of relief commissioners/secretaries of disaster management and state disaster response ...

Map: Yale Environment 360 Tibet ... Now it is eyeing the Brahmaputra, the world’s ninth largest river. The Brahmaputra begins as meltwater from the Angsi Glacier in western Tibet. From there it flows ...

In a desperate attempt to pressure India over suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), Pakistan is now resorting to thinly veiled threats. In a strikingly alarmist statement, Rana Ihsaan Afzal ...

Reacting to a Pakistani official's threat that China can also halt the flow of the River Brahmaputra into India, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday described the remark as ...

In a fiery and fact-loaded rebuttal posted on X on Monday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dismantled what he called Pakistan’s “new scare narrative” over China’s control of the ...