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 and China’s Brahmaputra dam race is fuelling an energy–data rivalry, turning the Himalayas into a flashpoint of Asia’s ...

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 ...

India fears Chinese dam will reduce flow on major river by up to 85% in dry season Delhi says a mega dam of its own will mitigate risks, but faces heavy local resistance Beijing building world's ...

Beijing's approval of a controversial mega dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows from Tibet autonomous region into India, has sparked concerns about the environmental ...

Days after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), Water Resources Minister CR Patil said the government was preparing plans to ensure "not a single drop of water" goes to Pakistan. To achieve ...

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 ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. China recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet.

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 says ...

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 ...