from the muddy tributaries of the Indus in the west to the banks of the sacred Ganges coiling along its central plains and the miles-wide currents of the Brahmaputra in the east. Creeks ...

In the northeastern state of Assam, the Brahmaputra River is well-known ... Since the 1850s, the river and its tributaries have been heavily mined. People used dredges and sluices to extract ...

One of Asia's major rivers, the Brahmaputra ... A year ago, China blocked a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo river as part of its most expensive hydro project, Chinese state-run news agency ...