India’s plans for the construction of two canals diverting the waters of the Teesta River will further reduce water flow into Bangladesh. According to biodiversity expert Kallol Mustafa ...

Tens of thousands of people converged on dried-up riverbeds of the Teesta as ... a fair share of water from India and implementation of a government master plan to save the river continued yesterday.

The Teesta River, opening out to the strategically significant Bay of Bengal, has for long been an important water source for irrigation and hydropower generation in both India and Bangladesh ...

Notably, Teesta river has a network of small channels with ... and in the dry season the river basin faces a shortage of water. He added that both PM Modi, and Sheikh Hasina who is on a state ...

Three days of continuous rainfall combined with an influx of water from upstream in India have led to an increase in the water level of the Teesta River. According to the Bangladesh Water Development ...

Under the project, it is envisaged to build a large reservoir and related infrastructure to manage and conserve Teesta River water. Also Read: ‘Bangladesh crisis could boost India’s ready-made ...

Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan says that PowerChina will submit its Teesta River Master Plan to the government by December 2026, stating that the time frame for its preparation has been ...

She said India and Bangladesh have resolved several pending issues in the past and hoped the Teesta River water sharing agreement would also be implemented soon. To deal with scarcity of water in ...

Thousands in northern Bangladesh districts, who have already been devastated by the Teesta River water control in upstream India, have begun to fear that they will endure more suffering as ...

The water-sharing formula of the Teesta River, which enters Bangladesh from West Bengal, was finalised in 2011 itself. But the treaty is on hold indefinitely because of India’s fractious ...

Although Bangladesh-India relations have reached the “highest level of friendship” over the past decade and a half, water-sharing on the Teesta River has remained a vexing issue. India’s ...