Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?
1 week, 3 days ago

Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?

India Today  

China’s controversial plan to construct the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet is raising alarm bells in India, as tensions between the two nations escalate. Beijing claims that the ambitious project is primarily for energy generation, but experts are concerned that it could drastically disrupt the river’s water flow, sparking a potential water crisis for millions downstream. Experts worry that such a large-scale project could drastically reduce the river's water flow, affecting agriculture, power generation, and the livelihoods of millions in India’s northeastern states. The Geopolitical Implications The Brahmaputra River provides essential water resources to India, and many fear that China’s control over the river could provide Beijing with leverage in future geopolitical disputes.

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River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster
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13 hours, 26 minutes ago

River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster

The Hindu  

On December 25, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, which aims to solve the water scarcity in the Bundelkhand region that covers parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Initially termed the ‘National Water Grid’, this concept re-emerged as the ‘River-Interlinking Project’ from the Ministry of Water Resources to transfer surplus …

India on alert regarding China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra: Rajnath Singh
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1 day, 5 hours ago

India on alert regarding China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra: Rajnath Singh

The Hindu  

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the government is on alert regarding China's plan to construct a mega dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, close to its border with India. Days after China announced its plan to construct the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra, India said it will continue to monitor and take necessary measures to protect …

Rajnath reacts to China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra: ‘Will take measures to protect India’s interest’
1 day, 8 hours ago

Rajnath reacts to China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra: ‘Will take measures to protect India’s interest’

India TV News  

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reacted to China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra and said the Central government is on alert regarding China's plan to construct a mega dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, close to its border with India. The reaction came days after China announced its plan to construct the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra, and India …

Why China wants control over a vital Indian resource
2 days, 8 hours ago

Why China wants control over a vital Indian resource

India Today  

India and China, already at odds over various geopolitical and territorial issues, could soon face a new frontier of conflict—water. A massive $137 billion dam that China plans to construct on the Brahmaputra River has sparked fresh concerns in India, highlighting a long-standing fear of water being weaponised. With its control over the river’s origin, China can manipulate water flow, …

World's biggest dam over Brahmaputra will not impact water flows to India: China
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2 days, 21 hours ago

World's biggest dam over Brahmaputra will not impact water flows to India: China

Deccan Chronicle  

Beijing: China on Monday reiterated its plan to build the world's biggest dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet near the Indian border, saying the planned project has gone through rigorous scientific verification and will not have any negative impact on downstream countries India and Bangladesh. China's construction of the hydropower project over in the Yarlung Tsangpo River downstream has …

China claims its world's biggest dam over Brahmaputra won't affect water flow to India
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3 days, 8 hours ago

China claims its world's biggest dam over Brahmaputra won't affect water flow to India

India TV News  

Beijing: China on Monday reiterated its plan to build the world's biggest dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet near the Indian border, saying the planned project has gone through rigorous scientific verification and will not have any negative impact on downstream countries -- India and Bangladesh. China's construction of the hydropower project over in the Yarlung Tsangpo River downstream …

India's reminder to China over Brahmaputra Dam: Activities upstream shouldn't harm downstream states' interest
4 days, 8 hours ago

India's reminder to China over Brahmaputra Dam: Activities upstream shouldn't harm downstream states' interest

India TV News  

Days after China announced the construction of the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra River, India has responded by saying that it will 'protect its interests'. New Delhi also sent a reminder to Beijing asserting its rights to the waters of the river while seeking transparency over China's mega construction plan in the environmentally sensitive Himalayan zone in Tibet. Indian …

China's plan to build dams along a contested border with India is raising tensions
4 days, 8 hours ago

China's plan to build dams along a contested border with India is raising tensions

NPR  

China's plan to build dams along a contested border with India is raising tensions China is planning to build a series of enormous hydropower dams. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown University professor Mark Giordano about the project and its effect on Sino-Indian relations. GIORDANO: The area where this dam is built on the Tibetan Plateau borders the Indian state …

India urges China to ensure dams on upstream Brahmaputra don't harm downstream regions
5 days, 16 hours ago

India urges China to ensure dams on upstream Brahmaputra don't harm downstream regions

Op India  

India has urged the Chinese side to ensure that the downstream states of the Brahmaputra river are not harmed by activities in upstream areas, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. “The Chinese side has been urged to ensure that the interests of downstream states of the Brahmaputra are not harmed by activities in upstream areas,” MEA spokesperson Randhir …

India redflags China’s mega dam plan in Tibet, 2 new counties in occupied Ladakh
5 days, 18 hours ago

India redflags China’s mega dam plan in Tibet, 2 new counties in occupied Ladakh

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: India on Friday flagged its concerns about China’s plan to build a mega-dam on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river and the creation of two counties in an illegally occupied section of Ladakh, with the external affairs ministry saying these matters had been formally taken up with Beijing. External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal referred to a …

The dangers of China’s planned megadam
6 days, 6 hours ago

The dangers of China’s planned megadam

Live Mint  

China is giving the world a dubious gift. The Great Bend hydroelectric project, which would sit on China’s contested border with India, would inflame tensions between the two giants and aggravate other South Asian nations. The ambitious new complex would have three times the power-generating capacity of the world’s current largest hydropower project—the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River. …

Why India, Bangladesh must worry about China's mega Brahmaputra dam
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1 week, 3 days ago

Why India, Bangladesh must worry about China's mega Brahmaputra dam

India Today  

China’s decision to construct the world’s ‘largest’ dam on the Brahmaputra river, locally known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, is a transformative moment in hydropower engineering. However, the dam also underscores China’s geopolitical aspirations, raising concerns about its impact on downstream countries like India and Bangladesh. By harnessing the hydropower potential of the Brahmaputra, the project is expected to …

Siang project not just for generating power but mitigating flood risks posed by China: Arunachal CM
1 week, 4 days ago

Siang project not just for generating power but mitigating flood risks posed by China: Arunachal CM

Hindustan Times  

Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project, estimated to cost ₹1.13 lakh crore, was being planned by the Centre not just for generating electricity but to maintain the natural flow of the river all year round and mitigate risks of flooding if China released excess water. Siang project not just for generating power but …

China defends plan to build world's largest dam over Brahmaputra River in Tibet; says will not affect lower reaches
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1 week, 5 days ago

China defends plan to build world's largest dam over Brahmaputra River in Tibet; says will not affect lower reaches

The Hindu  

China on Friday defended its plan to build the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, saying the project will not “negatively affect” lower riparian states and that safety issues have been addressed through decades of studies. She said China’s hydropower development in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river aims to speed up the development of …

China Plans Dam Near India That Could Be World’s Biggest
1 week, 5 days ago

China Plans Dam Near India That Could Be World’s Biggest

Live Mint  

-- Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. China is pressing ahead with plans to construct a mega-dam near its contested border with India, a colossal undertaking that could generate three times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam. The dam could become a source of tension between …

China plans to build world's largest dam on Brahmaputra near India border
2 weeks ago

China plans to build world's largest dam on Brahmaputra near India border

India Today  

China has approved the construction of the world's largest dam, stated to be the planet's biggest infra project costing USD 137 billion, on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states - India and Bangladesh. The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung …

China gives go-ahead to construction of world's largest dam over Brahmaputra river: Will it impact India?
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2 weeks ago

China gives go-ahead to construction of world's largest dam over Brahmaputra river: Will it impact India?

India TV News  

In what can be seen as a major infrastructural push in the Himalayan topography, China has given a go-ahead to the construction of the world's largest dam, dubbed the planet's biggest infra project, on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Indian border. Impact on India The announcement is likely to raise concerns in the neighbourhood as the dam …

China’s bridge across Pangong Lake now operational: How worried should India be?
5 months, 1 week ago

China’s bridge across Pangong Lake now operational: How worried should India be?

Firstpost  

Satellite imagery reveals that a Chinese-built 400-metre bridge connecting the north and south banks of Pangong Lake is now operational. The new construction will reduce the time needed by China’s PLA to mobilise its troops and equipment along the LAC The Pangong lake high up in Ladakh region of India. Visuals show that China has completed the construction of a …

India’s plan to build hydropower plants in the Himalayas angers China
5 months, 4 weeks ago

India’s plan to build hydropower plants in the Himalayas angers China

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China has reacted angrily to …

Myanmar quietly announces plans to study controversial Chinese dam project suspended 13 years ago
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Myanmar quietly announces plans to study controversial Chinese dam project suspended 13 years ago

Associated Press  

BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after protests over its possible impact on the environment. The $3.6 billion project in the northern state of Kachin, along the country’s Irrawaddy River, was supposed to export about 90% of the electricity …

Interlinking of Rivers: Solution to India’s growing water problem or recipe to ecological imbalance?
11 months, 1 week ago

Interlinking of Rivers: Solution to India’s growing water problem or recipe to ecological imbalance?

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: At the historic Mahabalipuram a few days ago, an All India Secretaries’ Conference on Water Vision@2047-Way Ahead was organised by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti. The Centre and some ‘beneficiary’ lower riparian states argue that India has a rapidly growing problem of water stress and there is a need to use most of the runoff to meet its …

Water resource inadequacy is a challenge India must take head on
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Water resource inadequacy is a challenge India must take head on

Live Mint  

The notion of a ‘triple planetary’ crisis encompassing climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss has become outdated in the face of complexities captured by the relatively new term ‘polycrisis.’ This modern challenge involves the intertwining of climate change, environmental disruptions, widening social inequalities, pandemic effects and geopolitical polarization. India can tap the climate-development nexus by conserving and using its water …

India’s river interlinking projects are changing monsoon patterns, may worsen water stress: study
1 year, 3 months ago

India’s river interlinking projects are changing monsoon patterns, may worsen water stress: study

The Hindu  

For four decades now, India has put its weight behind river interlinking projects that transfer excess water from one river basin to the other — a $168 billion answer to a swelling water stress crisis. A new study published in Nature Communications, however, challenges these claims: many hydro-linking projects in India and globally are altering monsoon cycles, disturbing complex hydro-meteorological …

Arunachal Pradesh farmers’ body rejects 10,000 MW hydropower plan on Siang River
1 year, 9 months ago

Arunachal Pradesh farmers’ body rejects 10,000 MW hydropower plan on Siang River

The Hindu  

Two Arunachal Pradesh-based organisations, including a farmers’ collective, have asked the State Government to scrap a deal for executing a proposed 10,000 MW hydropower project on the Siang River. Accusing the State Government of inking a deal with the National Hydropower Power Corporation for the mega-dam without taking the local people into confidence, Siang Indigenous Farmers’ Forum and the Indigenous …

Bangladesh Expresses Concern Over West Bengal Projects To Divert Teesta Water
1 year, 9 months ago

Bangladesh Expresses Concern Over West Bengal Projects To Divert Teesta Water

ABP News  

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing dispute over sharing waters of the transboundary Teesta River, Bangladesh has decided to seek an explanation from India on the West Bengal government's reported proposed projects on the Teesta reducing its flow, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, reported news agency PTI. The foreign ministry's comments came in response to a recent Indian media report …

China steps up preparations for future water war with India: Report
1 year, 11 months ago

China steps up preparations for future water war with India: Report

Op India  

China has stepped up preparations for a future water war with India by accelerating the construction of a huge dam on the Mabja Zangbo river, just a few kilometres north of the trijunction border with India and Nepal, Kathmandu-based online magazine Epardafas reported. Experts and analysts say that China by building a dam near Uttarakhand can establish complete control over …

India plans ‘buffers’ in proposed Arunachal hydropower project to counter ‘China threat’
1 year, 11 months ago

India plans ‘buffers’ in proposed Arunachal hydropower project to counter ‘China threat’

The Hindu  

Concerns over China’s proposed 60,000 MW hydropower in Medog, Tibet are influencing the design of a proposed hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Siang district. Still only in the planning stage, a ‘pre-feasibility report’ on the 11,000 MW project, or more than five times the size of the largest such projects in India – has been submitted to the Central …

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India’s hydropower push
1 year, 11 months ago

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India’s hydropower push

Al Jazeera  

Farmer Shiv Lal barely slept this week, overcome by worry about the deep cracks scarring his land and hundreds of other homes and buildings in a sinking town in India’s Himalayas. While NTPC officials and some geologists have ruled out tunnelling work as the cause of this month’s devastation in Joshimath, residents’ angry protests have reignited debate about the construction …

How China is surreptitiously poaching Brahmaputra waters to hurt India
2 years, 1 month ago

How China is surreptitiously poaching Brahmaputra waters to hurt India

Firstpost  

The Chinese government is building a tunnel over 1,000 kilometers long to take water from the Brahmaputra to the arid regions in western China. Starting near Tsangmo in Tibet, the tunnel will stretch to the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang World’s Longest Tunnel: Chinese activities in Tibet have rung alarm bells within the security establishment of India for over half a …

India is All Set to Harness Hydropower With Eye on the China-Pakistan Axis
2 years, 7 months ago

India is All Set to Harness Hydropower With Eye on the China-Pakistan Axis

News 18  

Sometime around the end of last month, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs sanctioned 4526 crore rupees to construct the 540 MW Kwar hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district by Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt. The backdrop to these developments is the Indus Water Treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960 to share the waters of six …

Explained | Why are hydropower projects in the Himalayas risky?
3 years, 4 months ago

Explained | Why are hydropower projects in the Himalayas risky?

The Hindu  

The Environment Ministry, in an affidavit placed in the Supreme Court earlier this month, has disclosed that it has permitted seven hydroelectric power projects, which are reportedly in advanced stages of construction, to go ahead. The Das committee recommended all six projects with design modifications to some, and this gives lie to the Environment Ministry’s current stance. Following the break …

Hydropower projects are wreaking havoc in the Himalayas
3 years, 9 months ago

Hydropower projects are wreaking havoc in the Himalayas

Al Jazeera  

On February 7, a Himalayan glacier broke and caused a flash flood in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand. “It shows that nature will strike back if we disregard the ecological limits of fragile regions like the Himalayas through reckless dam building and other infrastructure development.” After the 2013 flash flood, the Supreme Court of India also mandated a national …

China gives green light for first downstream dams on Brahmaputra
3 years, 10 months ago

China gives green light for first downstream dams on Brahmaputra

The Hindu  

A draft of China’s new Five-Year Plan, which is set to be formally approved on March 11, has given the green light for the first dams to be built on the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, before it flows into India. The draft outline of the new Five-Year Plan for 2025 and …

China's Attempt to Set Up Dam on Brahmaputra Will Be Encroachment on Rights of India: Govt
3 years, 11 months ago

China's Attempt to Set Up Dam on Brahmaputra Will Be Encroachment on Rights of India: Govt

News 18  

The government on Wednesday said any attempt by China to set up a hydropower station on the Brahmaputra river will act as an encroachment on the entitled rights of lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh and adversely affect the availability of water in its basin during the lean season. "Regarding the alleged plan of China to set up a …

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced
4 years, 1 month ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

Deccan Chronicle  

Last week, the Chinese state media said the country could build up to 60 GW of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra, citing a senior executive Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China, speaking at an industry conference, said plans to dam the river were a “historic opportunity”. The supporters of this narrative believe …

‘Carefully monitoring’ Brahmaputra amid China dam plans, says India
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Carefully monitoring’ Brahmaputra amid China dam plans, says India

The Hindu  

India on Thursday said it “carefully monitors all developments on the Brahmaputra ” river, even as Beijing said it was its “legitimate right” to develop hydropower projects on the lower reaches of the river. A State-run Chinese hydropower firm, POWERCHINA, is planning to build the first downstream dam on the Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet, with officials …

Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India
4 years, 1 month ago

Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India

Firstpost  

The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries and capillaries that form the circulatory system of a living ecosystem in a particular river basin. Any event related to the Brahmaputra, even if it is only a natural one, also gets certain members of India’s …

India Plans Dam on Brahmaputra River to Offset Chinese Construction Upstream
4 years, 1 month ago

India Plans Dam on Brahmaputra River to Offset Chinese Construction Upstream

News 18  

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. “The need of the hour is to have a big dam in Arunachal Pradesh to mitigate the adverse impact of the Chinese dam …

India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream
4 years, 1 month ago

India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream

Live Mint  

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. "Our proposal is under consideration at the highest level in the government," Mehra said, adding the Indian plan would create a large water …

China to build a major dam on Brahmaputra river in Tibet: Report
4 years, 1 month ago

China to build a major dam on Brahmaputra river in Tibet: Report

India Today  

China will build a major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and a proposal for this has been clearly put forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan to be implemented from next year, the official media on Sunday quoted the head of a Chinese company tasked to build the dam as saying. Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp …

India Irked as China Plans to Build Major Dam on Brahmaputra River, But Beijing Downplays Anxiety
4 years, 1 month ago

India Irked as China Plans to Build Major Dam on Brahmaputra River, But Beijing Downplays Anxiety

News 18  

China will build a major hydropower project on Brahmaputra river in Tibet and a proposal for this has been clearly put forward in the 14th Five-Year Plan to be implemented from next year, the official media on Sunday quoted the head of a Chinese company tasked to build the dam as saying. Yan Zhiyong, chairman of the Power Construction Corp …

China hydropower company plans first downstream dam on Brahmaputra
4 years, 1 month ago

China hydropower company plans first downstream dam on Brahmaputra

The Hindu  

China’s media reported on Sunday that authorities have given the go-ahead for a Chinese hydropower company to construct the first downstream dam on the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra river, or Yarlung Zangbo as it is known in Tibet, marking a new phase in China’s hydropower exploitation of the river with potential ramifications for India. A report in the Chinese …

The Hindu Explains | What does Chinese interest in the Teesta mean for India?
4 years, 4 months ago

The Hindu Explains | What does Chinese interest in the Teesta mean for India?

The Hindu  

The story so far: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla paid a two-day visit to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Tuesday and Wednesday and discussed a two-year road map for bilateral relations. Bangladesh claims that the dry Teesta during these months is because of India holding most of the winter supplies of the river’s water. Theb project will not get …

China betrayed India, says Tibet\'s government-in-exile head Lobsang Sangay
4 years, 6 months ago

China betrayed India, says Tibet\'s government-in-exile head Lobsang Sangay

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: President of Central Administration of Tibet in exile, Dr Lobsang Sangay, on Monday urged India to take a proactive and prominent role in containing 'expansionist' China in the region and help in resolving the issue of Tibet. Dr Sangay said the military aggression by PLA is not the first time in the region and will not be the …

India reminds China of claims over Gilgit-Baltistan
4 years, 7 months ago

India reminds China of claims over Gilgit-Baltistan

The Hindu  

The recent incidents of face-off between the troops of India and China are neither “co-related” nor have any connection with other global or local activities, Army Chief Gen. Manoj Naravane said on Thursday. The statement was supplemented by official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava who reminded China about India’s claims over Gilgit-Baltistan where China has teamed …

India must not look at its water crisis in isolation
5 years, 1 month ago

India must not look at its water crisis in isolation

Hindustan Times  

This was a rough monsoon — a delayed start in many parts of India, and then a deluge — leading to both devastating droughts and floods, so much so that almost every other day, we read news about parched cities, and submerged villages. Much of India will face a grim water future, and what we do now will have an …

China funding NGOs against hydro projects in Arunachal Pradesh
5 years, 4 months ago

China funding NGOs against hydro projects in Arunachal Pradesh

Live Mint  

China is trying to fund certain civil society organizations to incite protests against hydropower projects in Arunachal Pradesh, fear Indian government officials. Any delay in building hydropower projects in Arunachal Pradesh on rivers originating in China will affect India’s strategy of establishing its prior-use claim over the waters, according to international law. “We have heard that China is trying to …

Bhutan's plans for Sankosh dam highlights questions about country's pursuit of hydropower
5 years, 6 months ago

Bhutan's plans for Sankosh dam highlights questions about country's pursuit of hydropower

Firstpost  

While India and Bhutan embark on a new hydropower venture with the Sankosh dam, many issues remain unaddressed, related to the two countries, tribals, wildlife and monetary risk. As Bhutan’s new prime minister prioritises the Sankosh dam, it highlights many questions about Bhutan’s pursuit of hydropower By Omair Ahmad In his first major interview to the Indian media, Prime Minister …

'Stop supporting terrorism or else will halt water supply', Nitin Gadkari tells Pakistan; plan to divert resource to Punjab, Haryana
5 years, 8 months ago

'Stop supporting terrorism or else will halt water supply', Nitin Gadkari tells Pakistan; plan to divert resource to Punjab, Haryana

Firstpost  

There was water treaty between India and Pakistan in 1960 and its basis was peaceful relations, but if the present face of terrorism is not changed, in such circumstances, India wouldn’t take much time to take the harsh decision of stopping river water to Pakistan, the BJP leader said. Amritsar: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday warned Pakistan that India …

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