{"id":387828,"date":"2020-12-04T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387828"},"modified":"2020-12-04T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:54:11","slug":"india-carefully-monitors-all-developments-on-brahmaputra-mea-on-chinas-plan-to-build-major-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-carefully-monitors-all-developments-on-brahmaputra-mea-on-chinas-plan-to-build-major-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"India \u2018carefully monitors\u2019 all developments on Brahmaputra: MEA on China\u2019s plan to build major dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst reports that China plans to build a major dam on the Brahmaputra, India on Thursday said it \u201ccarefully monitors\u201d all developments relating to the river, and that it intends to remain engaged with China on the issue of trans-border rivers to safeguard its interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in China, originates from Tibet and flows into Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.<\/p>\n<p>At a media briefing, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the Chinese side has conveyed to India on several occasions that it was only undertaking run-of-the-river hydropower projects, which do not involve diversion of the waters of the Brahmaputra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst reports that China plans to build a major dam on the Brahmaputra, India on Thursday said it \u201ccarefully monitors\u201d all developments relating to the river, and that it intends to remain engaged with China on the issue of trans-border rivers to safeguard its interests. The Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in China, originates from Tibet and flows into Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. At a media briefing, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the Chinese side has conveyed to India on several occasions that it was only undertaking run-of-the-river hydropower projects, which do not involve diversion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}