India wants to change a 1960 World Bank-negotiated Indus river water-sharing agreement with Pakistan and has issued a notice to its South Asian neighbor, people with knowledge of the matter said.

India has revived the six-decade-old Sawalkote hydropower project on River Chenab after keeping the Indus Waters Treaty with ...

India ’s first dolphin population survey, conducted between 2021 and 2023 and released recently by prime minister Narendra Modi, covered 8,406km of the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and their ...

The official was one of three Mint spoke to about the government's plan to link the Indus and Chenab rivers in J&K in order to extract more water from the Indus river system, now that India has ...

Will India be able to stop the Indus river and two of its tributaries from flowing into Pakistan? That's the question on many minds, after India suspended a major treaty governing water sharing of ...

The suspension of the 1960 World Bank-brokered treaty would mean India would stop the water supply of Indus River and its tributaries — the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj — to Pakistan ...

India put into "abeyance" its participation in the 1960 treaty, which governs the usage of the Indus river system, after 26 civilians in Indian Kashmir were killed in what Delhi described as an ...

The river is home to 22 endemic fish species and the endangered Indus River dolphin. Blocking water access could also damage India’s goodwill with other neighbors it shares rivers with, such as ...

Blocking river flows threatens agriculture, food security, and the livelihoods of millions. It could also, warn experts, set the stage for a full-fledged war between India and Pakistan.

A1: The IWT governs water usage in the Indus River Basin. The frontier that partitioned British India in 1947, separating modern India and Pakistan at independence, also divided the two nations over ...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) dismissed India’s objections regarding the legitimacy of arbitration to address the ongoing Indus River disputes between India and Pakistan on Thursday.

In India’s Beas River, where dolphin numbers are critically low, 90% of dry-season flow depends on timed releases from the Pong Dam. In 2017 and 2018, water reductions led to habitat ...