STORY: This corner of India, wedged between China, Bhutan and Myanmar, is the front line in a water war between two Asian superpowers. Beijing and Delhi have plans for massive rival dams on a river ...

India, July 11 -- The monsoon season has now enveloped the entire subcontinent. While intense and prolonged heatwaves threatened human lives before the rains, the country is now grappling with a ...

PARONG, India (Reuters) -India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, according to four sources familiar with the matter ...

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India ...

India’s US$77 billion Brahmaputra hydropower initiative and China’s mega-dam at the Yarlung–Tsangpo Great Bend are turning the Himalayas into a digital hydropower flashpoint. Both states are tying ...

On July 19, Chinese Premier Li Qiang officially announced the start of construction on a long-planned hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Billed as a centerpiece of ...

NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Brahmaputra in India, concerns have inevitably surged about the possible ...

The NCDS, constituted under Section 5 of the Dam Safety Act, 2021, functions as a policy think tank for the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA).

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China's building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...