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China nod for downstream dam on the Brahmaputra

November 30, 2020 12:00 am | Updated 04:41 am IST

Ananth Krishnan

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 with pot-ential ramifications for India.

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