The flood situation in Assam on Monday worsened with the Brahmaputra and its tributaries continuing to rise leaving nine persons dead and rendering 10 lakh people homeless in 16 districts.

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India and China on Thursday agreed to step up their defence and security dialogue and work to take steps to ensure that the two countries achieve a USD 100 billion trade target by 2015.

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A decade after commencement of construction work of India's longest rail-cum-road bridge over the Brahmaputra river in Assam, considered crucial for the defence requirement of the region, the mega pro

A man in his mid-50s helped grow a huge forest on a sand bar in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam's Jorhat district, which has caught attention of the government, tourists and film-makers.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said China has given an assurance that the dam it was building on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet will not harm India's interest and ‘we trust’ its statement.

India on Thursday said it has satellite imagery proof that China was building only a run-of-the-river dam for power projects on the Brahmaputra river and that it posed no threat to Assam or Arunachal

India on Tuesday downplayed apprehensions that a dam being constructed by China on river Brahmaputra will affect the country, saying the project is not a cause for “immediate alarm”.

Amid reports of Beijing considering plans to divert the Brahmaputra river from its upper reaches, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said there was need to raise the issue with China.

Amid reports of Beijing considering plans to divert the Brahmaputra river from its upper reaches, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said there was need to raise the issue with Chin