China today said it has “fully considered” the impact of the three dams it plans to build on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and claimed the projects will not affect water flows to India, reports PTI.
“China has always been responsible regarding the utilisation and development of cross border rivers and adopts a policy that pays equal attention to development and protection”, Chinese Foreign Ministry Sp...
A lonely cowherd who spent lazy afternoons planting trees while his cattle grazed along a sandbar on the Brahmaputra and single-handedly grew a forest, was honoured by the Jawaharlal Nehru University with title of “Forest Man of Assam” on Earth Day today.
Jadab Payeng, popularly called Molai, is a self-appointed keeper of a 300-hectare woodland, every plant of which he has painstakingly grown over ...
A man in his mid-50s helped grow a huge forest on a sand bar in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam's Jorhat district, which has caught attention of the government, tourists and film-makers.
The 30-year-long effort of Jadav Payeng, known among local people as 'Mulai', has been hailed by the Assam Forest Department as an 'exemplary' for growing woods stretching over an area of 550...
Brahma Chellaney
Beijing, ignoring international conventions, is exercising dissolute rule over even international rivers. It is building dams angering its own minority peoples as well as those of neighbouring countries as they see themselves deprived of an essential basic good. Before it becomes the boss of water taps all over Asia, China must be halted. This is the analysis and warning of an Ind...