The devastating flash flood that ripped through Nepal’s Rasuwa district and China’s Tibet has so far claimed more than 600 lives, with around 3,000 still missing on both sides of the border.

Green energy is one of the only options left to tackle global warming and impacts of climate change.

Visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering yesterday suggested that Bangladesh should engage in talks with India to import hydropower from Bhutan as it would need to use Indian territory to make it happen.

China has 331,110 megawatts of installed electricity-generation capacity - nearly seven times higher hydropower installed capacity than India and more than the rest of Asian countries combined.