Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India's largest hydropower dams. Nayan J. Nath, CC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This corner of India, wedged between China, Bhutan and Myanmar, is the front line in a water war between two Asian ...

India has experienced multiple flash floods that have significantly impacted critical water infrastructure, such as dams and barrages. Dam breaches have a long history, with the worst disaster ...

India is pressing China to resume sharing water-flow data as concerns mount over Beijing’s construction of the world’s largest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, a river that flows through India into ...

A flood that burst through a major hydroelectric dam in India's Himalayan northeast killed at least 31 people, officials said Friday, as ice-cold water swept through mountain towns, washing away ...

Some researchers have argued that the enormous weight of water stored behind the dam may have altered stresses on an underlying fault, potentially contributing to what scientists call ...

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam—India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India says ...

High above the eastern Himalayas, where some of the world's youngest mountains rise sharply against the Tibetan Plateau, a ...

On February 28, the Indian government approved the construction of a hydropower project across the River Dibang in the Northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The $3.9 billion project is India’s ...

Its dam-building spree in pursuit of hydropower has led to the displacement of people, deforestation and disasters in the Himalayan region. The 1,200-megawatt Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Plant is a ...

"Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish," a woman yelled from outside. I was sitting in the kitchen at my friend Rupam's house in rural northeast India. It was the heart of monsoon season, and rain ...

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China’s building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...