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India, Bangladesh: Water Disputes and Teesta River Diplomacy

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...

Delhi tests waters for Teesta tweak

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...

Teesta waters accord for debt relief, but Modi isn’t impressed

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...

How far is Teesta water sharing agreement?

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...

Teesta, LBA to dominate secretary level talks next month

‘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...

Teesta, boundary pact to figure in JCC with Bangladesh on Sept 20

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...