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TopicBrahmaputra

Topic: Brahmaputra

India carefully monitoring developments on Brahmaputra river by China, says MEA

On ongoing LAC standoff in Ladakh, both sides have agreed to have another round of Senior Commanders meeting at ‘appropriate time’, says MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava.

Three men on a raft go 400 km across Assam, from world’s largest to smallest river island

The trio's journey was an attempt to raise awareness about the need for environmental conservation and sustainable development.

India’s longest river ropeway, across Brahmaputra, opens in Guwahati

Built at a cost of Rs 56 crore, the ropeway will cover a distance of 1.8 km, and bring down the travelling time between north Guwahati & central part of the city to 8 minutes.

50-year-old Meghalaya woman clears Class 12 exams, wants to go to college to study Khasi next

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Tensions with China-Pakistan can derail fragile water treaties, but India won’t talk about it

The recent tension with Nepal, misunderstanding with Bhutan and border clash with China show that India can no longer create policy of long-term water security in isolation.

East India Company to World War: How Brahmaputra river was militarised

The river became an ally for the EIC’s military expeditions from the early 19th century and became a way to gain control over the northeast's untamed geographies.

Enormous debris from landslide heading towards Arunachal with Brahmaputra waters

Days after a flood scare proved untrue, the formation of another barrier dam at the same site in Tibet threatens damage

Tweet by Arunachal MP Ninong Ering did not create flood scare in northeast

Prevention is better than cure when it comes to possibility of Brahmaputra flooding.

Brahmaputra flood scare in Arunachal over, but India must watch out as crisis can return

The Brahmaputra is getting naturally dammed up in Tibet, leading to a dual fear — first it will dry up, then release a ‘water bomb’ when it breaches the ‘dam’.

Modi-Xi agree on sharing water data on Brahmaputra, satellites show why it is ‘impossible’

Latest satellite imagery shows the river Brahmaputra disappearing into a 900 m underground tunnel in China.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.