Jun 12, 2015
India and Bangladesh share 54 rivers between them. Despite setting up a Joint River Commission for water management as early as 1972, tensions between the countries on how to share resources recently came to a head in a dispute over the Teesta River. At stake are the...
Jun 12, 2015
May 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success in coaxing Mamata Banerjee to join him in Dhaka in early June rode on the back of deft diplomatic timing and hard political manoeuvring to create a window for resolving differences over the Teesta water-sharing...
Jun 12, 2015
In her first official engagement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee shed her famed belligerence and extended all help to the Centre in honouring the India-Bangladesh Land Border Agreement while taking a rather soft stand on the...
Jun 12, 2015
BANGLADESH Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali and his team recently met with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj and other Indian officials in New Delhi. A 36-point joint statement on the meeting, called `Joint Statement on the Third Meeting of the India-Bangladesh...
Apr 21, 2015
‘Dhaka has addressed Indian concerns but New Delhi has not properly reciprocated. It would help relations if India delivered on its promises’ Sheikh Shahariar Zaman: Dhaka will discuss the Teesta water sharing agreement and Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) during the...
Aug 27, 2014
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh will hold a meeting of Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) here on September 20 during which a number of bilateral issues including the contentious Teesta water agreement and the Land Boundary pact are likely to figure. Addressing a...
