Apr 28, 2014
The alliance of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) jointly launched their three-day ‘Teesta march’ after a rally in front of the National Press Club on Thursday afternoon. The CPB-BSD jointly orgainsed the ‘Teesta March’...
Mar 28, 2014
Dhaka has expressed concern about the declining flow in the trans-boundary river Teesta.It voiced its concern at Bangladesh-India Joint Rivers Commission’s technical committee meeting in the capital yesterday.“We’ve raised the Teesta issue and have been...
Mar 28, 2014
The sharing of waters of the Teesta River will continue to remain a festering issue between India and Bangladesh. That’s because the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal not only remains strongly opposed to the equitable sharing of Teesta waters as...
Feb 18, 2014
Bangladesh need not get worried about India’s commitment to resolving the pending issues of the land boundary agreement and sharing of the Teesta river water, Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said yesterday. Wrapping up her four-day official visit...
Jan 28, 2014
Speaking to journalists after a CPI (M) state executive meeting in Kolkata, the former chief minister raised the question about why Mamata was adopting a stand that could only bolster fundamentalist forces in Bangladesh and help to create unrest there. “We all want...
Dec 18, 2013
The mighty rivers of Brahmaputra and Teesta have dried up at an alarming rate and almost turned into crop fields because of the adverse impacts of climate change. The Brahmaputra has now the lowest water flow in some narrower channels that caused emergence of hundreds...