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’...
Apr 28, 2014
A MAN-MADE spur juts into the mighty Jamuna river—known as the Brahmaputra upstream, over the border in India—near the town of Enayetpur. The solid wall was built, expensively, to control the massive flow of the river. But erosion now eats deep into its foundations...
Apr 28, 2014
The once-turbulent Teesta now has tuned into a dying canal as water flow in this river has come down to the lowest level as a result of unilateral withdrawal of water upstream by India. Read...
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...
Mar 28, 2014
Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi.“Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common...
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...
