Early historical kingdoms that arose in the Indus Valley include Gandh ra and Sindhu-Sauv ra. The Indus River came into the knowledge of the Western world early in the classical period ...

DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images) The Indus Valley people benefited from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade from nearby Mesopotamia. Two cities, Harappa and ...

The treaty restricts India largely to setting up low-impact hydropower projects on the three rivers allocated to Pakistan.

India’s decision to put the agreement “in abeyance” — and the vague conditions it has imposed on Pakistan to reverse that — ...

This article is authored by Mahendranath Sudhindranath, senior research fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.

The suspension of a water-sharing agreement in place for 65 years signals a new low in relations between the nations.

Gulzar Bhat explores the potential benefits of resuming the Tulbul Barrage Project amid India's suspension of the Indus ...

What’s called the Indus Valley Civilisation today wasn’t spread only on the Indus River, but the entire region. Dholavira, for example, is located on the Luni River, which originates in Rajasthan.

India announced it was halting implementation of the 1960 treaty on the sharing of water from six rivers in the Indus basin. India has control over the eastern rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej while ...

The treaty had survived three wars and other conflicts between the bitter rivals, while withstanding many twists and turns in ...