“You have to recognize the waters. Here, GPS and maps don't work, as the islands appear and disappear and the depths keep changing,” says Bimal Mondol, the shipmaster who expertly steers our vessel, ...

The Brahmaputra River is one of the largest and most important rivers in the world. Do you know that it originated from the Kailash range of the Himalayas in Tibet? It was at an elevation of around ...

The mighty Himalayas act as the water tower of the South and Southeast Asian region. More than ten major rivers originate from the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. And for the past decade, India ...

The trigger of the latest tensions between China and India was language in the Chinese government’s outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan, issued in November, which articulates national development goals ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

News: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday if China were to reduce the water flow of the Brahmaputra, it would benefit the state and help it mitigate the devastating annual floods.

A new study has reconstructed nearly 4,000 years of climate and vegetation history of Majuli Island, Assam—the world’s largest inhabited river island, culturally significant as the settlement of ...

NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Brahmaputra in India, concerns have inevitably surged about the possible ...

Lifeline of Assam: Assam is known for its many large rivers. The state has more than 100 rivers and two main river basins: the Brahmaputra and the Barak. These rivers support life, but they can also ...

The Brahmaputra is India's largest river by volume. It flows through Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in India. It merges with the Ganges before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Amazon River is the ...