Tharoor described India’s “relative absence” at such a significant diplomatic platform as “puzzling, in a region that is reshaping itself”

India’s power planning authority has drawn up a Rs 6.4 trillion ($77 billion) transmission plan to move more than 76 gigawatts of hydroelectric capacity from the Brahmaputra basin by 2047 to meet rising electricity demand.

At least 47 people are dead and scores are missing after tropical storms triggered torrential rains. 

​At least 47 people are dead and scores are missing after tropical storms triggered torrential rains.