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...
The emergence of the large and powerful companies poses huge threat to the rights of the global indigenous community and
the democracy. Participating on the concluding day today of a two-day long community seminar on 'Mega dams and our future' organised by
Mising Bane Kebang (MBK). A project under the European Union (EU), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and North East Peoples Alliance (NEPA) ...
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The current geopolitics of Asia mainly revolve round on India-China relationship for most global observers.In most diplomatic row between these two Asian giants,Arunachal constantly feature in the fore.And most recently,China has earmarked a claim line one step further by including parts of Assam along the borders of what the so-called South Tibet.The development of infrastructure on the Chinese s...
Manipur chief minister O Ibobi Singh has sought clarification from the centre on media reports that the government is considering granting a 'supra state body' status to Nagas settled across the Northeast to enable them to preserve their culture, identity and customary laws under one
body.
Official sources said that the chief minister wrote letters to the Prime Minister and the Union home ministe...
India plans to recruit 100,000 soldiers over the next five years and send them to the China-India border areas to cement its military strength there, according to a report by the Times of India on Nov. 2. India's defense ministry has already approved a 13 billion-U.S. dollar military modernization plan.
The average growth rate of India's military spending has stood at 7 percent to 8 percent for mor...