FALLING WATER: The braids on the Yarlung Tsangpo (Barhmaputra) near Lhasa before it enters a series of gorges where the world's largest hydroelectric plant is being built by China. Photo: KUNDA DIXIT ...

The Indus or Harappan Civilisation was a Bronze Age society that developed mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia from 5300 to 3300 years ago, at about the same time as urban civilisations ...

Dehradun: Unregulated riverbed sand mining has become a "rapidly intensifying geohazard" in the Himalayan region, triggering "profound and potentially irreversible changes to river morphology, ...

ISLAMABAD: The Abu Dhabi Dialogue Group comprising seven states sharing the rivers rising in the Greater Himalayas is expected to meet early next month to adopt a joint initiative to minimise the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Conservation geneticist Adarsh Man Sherchan is one of the leading experts keeping track of the impacts that Nepal’s dozens of dams are having on ...

Low per capita water availability and a high relative level of water use makes South Asia one of the most water scarce regions of the world. For the first time, the International RiverSymposium (IRS) ...

I’d had serious second thoughts. If it was this miserably cold in Delhi, what would a Himalayan river be like? Aquaterra were running India’s first-ever self-contained inflatable kayak expedition in ...

Nepal, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalayan mountain peaks with glacial debris in the foreground. (Photo by: Eye Ubiquitous/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) At higher altitudes in the Hindu ...