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...
Jun 12, 2015
DHAKA: The Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh is not just about realignment of land, it is about a meeting of hearts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a huge gathering of Indian diaspora at the Bangladesh’s Dhaka University today. “If...
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
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s just-concluded China visit failed to advance cooperation over transboundary rivers. A few weeks before that, China agreed to provide Bangladesh with the Brahmaputra water flow data that it already provides India From the monsoon...
Jun 12, 2015
India has expressed its concern over Ganga barrage mega project as it might cause backflow of water and siltation, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud said yesterday. “Now we are trying to address the problems and we can easily resolve it,” he said at a...
