China’s state news agency recently announced government approval for constructing the world’s largest hydropower project, ...

When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.9 and 5.0 hit Tibet's Tingri county on Monday, according to China Earthquake Networks Center. The county was struck by a magnitude 6.8 quake last ...

BEIJING - Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems including cracks at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they ...

Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, was dispatched to the area to guide the work The epicentre of the magnitude 6.8 quake that hit on Tuesday morning was in Tingri county, near Shigatse city, according to ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

India has 29 states with at least 720 districts comprising of approximately 6 lakh villages, and over 8200 cities and towns. Indian postal department has allotted a unique postal code of pin code ...