Concerns swirling over China's recently approved plan to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam in southern Tibet. It will be built on Tibet's longest river, the Yarlung Tsangpo, and could ...

The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...

Experts say China’s ‘strategically smart’ move is aimed at leveraging more diplomatic influence & more China-Bangladesh ...

Beijing has assured Dhaka it will look into the request to lower the interest rate to ease Bangladesh’s foreign debt ...

With the Tibetan region’s seismic vulnerability due to tectonic plate activity, such mega-dam projects could exacerbate risks ...

Beijing may consider Bangladesh’s political stability and diplomatic positioning before making any commitment on economic and trade benefits that Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain will seek during his ...

But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...

In the absence of a water-sharing treaty, we are in a vulnerable position, but a dam for a dam is not in our best interest ...

Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy the waters.

Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...

Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Assam Gaurav Gogoi has urged the Ministry of Defence to take immediate steps to assess ...