Despite local protests, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam – the world’s largest – upstream in Tibet. Millions of people in India and Bangladesh ...

China has approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangbo River which turns left and flows through Arunachal Pradesh and is called Siang in the ...

Plans for a mega dam on the Tsangpo gave way to possibility of a cascade of smaller dams years ago but there's no clarity on when - and if - these will be built. On December 25, 2024, China's Xinhua ...

Kaziranga: In the face of opposition from anti-mega dam activists, Arunachal Pradesh water transport minister Ojing Tasing on Friday defended the state's decision to build an 11,000 MW ...

New Delhi, India – Gegong Jijong lined up with hundreds of other protesters on a cold afternoon last month near the Siang River in India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, shouting ...

The planned construction by China of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river in Tibet has become a matter of ...

Arunachal's East Siang Downstream Dam Affected Peoples’ Forum (ESDDAPF) has sought government intervention to protect the lives, lands, and properties of downstream communities. These ...

NEW DELHI- BJP MP Dilip Saikia urged the government to hold bilateral talks with China to halt the construction of a massive ...

disrupting life in the Siang belt and the plains of Assam, he cautioned. Conversely, Mr Khandu said, sudden releases of water from the dam could cause severe flooding downstream, particularly ...

India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter a huge Chinese dam further north. But this latest move in a tit-for-tat saga of water geopolitics between the two nations ...

(CM Office) The CM said that the northern neighbour could use the dam as a “water bomb”, which, if released, would have disastrous consequences downstream. The Yarlung Tsangpo is called Siang ...

Khandu said the Siang or the Brahmaputra rivers, as the Yarlung Tsangpo is called in India, would dry up during the winter while sudden and excess water release during the monsoon could wreak ...