The Bramaputra River, 2,900 kilometers long, is the world's tallest river over sea level. Its source is in the Himalayas, and it flows into the Indian Ocean. The river runs east for 1,800 kilometers through most of southern Tibet (Xizang...

The Brahmaputra,[1] also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia. From its origin in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in...

The Brahmaputra, the son of Brahma, is the most spectacular river: unfeasibly vast, enormously creative and destructive by turns. No river I have seen so dominates human endeavour, renders human beings so ant- like. We are in Assam, in India's north-east, and at...

1 INTRODUCTION Agricultural sector is dominant in the economy of the Brahmaputra valley which shares more than 50 per cent to the total gross domestic product and employs about 70 per cent of the workforce in it. In spite of favourable agro-ecological...

About 100 wild elephants have converged on a river island in northeast India, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said Saturday.Thousands of villagers were using firecrackers and bonfires to scare away the rampaging animals."Dozens of houses have been destroyed in the past...