By the Brahmaputra

The Zangmu Hydropower Station at Lhoka in southwest China's Tibet region, has begun generating electricity. The latest dam development on Himalayan rivers has prompted concern in neighbouring India. Photo taken on Sunday. Photo: AFP China has ...

Water is discharged from the dam of Zangmu Hydropower Station in Gyaca County, Shannan Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 22, 2014. This Tibet's largest hydropower station became partly operational on Sunday, harnessing the ...

2014/11/24 Q: Yesterday, the Zangmu hydropower dam built by China on the Yarlung Zangbo river was put into operation. China also plans to build at least three other dams there. Will China take into account the concerns of downstream countries ...

Anti-dam organisations in Assam have raised their voices against the reported completion of a major hydropower project by China on Yarlung Zangbo, the Tibetan part of Brahmaputra. Some activists have also threatened to lay siege to the Chinese ...

BEIJING: China on Monday promised to take "full account" of concerns about its new hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra in the river's downstream areas, which include India's northeastern region. The dam will not come in the way of flood-prevention ...

Concerns are being raised in India as the Chinese have completed the first hydro-electric project of 510 MW in the middle reaches of Brahmaputra — called the Zangmu dam in Tibet — for which construction had begun in 2010. However, according ...

After five years of work, the first hydroelectric power plant constructed on Tibet's Brahmaputra river has become operatonal amidst concerns by India and Bangladesh that China could use it to manipulate their economies and ecosystems. The ...

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) As China announced the completion of a hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra river, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Monday said the government was always in the know of the development. "The government is ...

Honor for Akhil Gogoi, KMSS. GUWAHATI [Dec 2014] Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader and anti-dam activist Akhil Gogoi on Wednesday advocated the idea of urgently pressurising the Government of India to negotiate with neighbouring ...