India Bangladesh Water Sharing Agreement

Reports in Bangladesh have claimed that the flooding in the country is caused partially due to the opening of the Farakka barrage in West Bengal, prompting a fact-check by the Government of India, which trashed all such reports as "fake".

India and Bangladesh today signed an interim water sharing agreement for Kushiyara river, the first such pact since the signing of the Ganga water treaty in 1996.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the people of her country were awaiting early signing and the implementation of the Framework of Interim Agreement for sharing of the Teesta waters.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day visit to India and arrived in Delhi yesterday, received a grand welcome from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. PM Hasina then headed to Rajghat to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi.

India today said "behind the scene" efforts are underway to resolve the long-pending Teesta water sharing issue with Bangladesh similar to the settlement of the historic Land Boundary Agreement with the neighbouring country.

The land boundary agreement, he said, was another link in the chain. The agreement was formally signed between the two countries 41 years after it was endorsed. Under the deal, the two countries will swap 161 tiny enclaves, whose 50,000-odd inhabitants have been deprived of not only of nationality, but also of public services.

Mamata Banerjee reached Dhaka on Thursday night, on her first visit to the city as West Bengal Chief Minister. All eyes are on what she might say during her visit on the contentious issue of Teesta water sharing.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held talks with her Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on key bilateral issues, including Land Boundary Agreement and proposed Teesta river water sharing deal, during which the Indian side also raised the matter of illegal immigration.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh arrived in Dhaka today for a two-day visit under the shadow of the stalled Teesta river sharing agreement.

Reports in Bangladesh have claimed that the flooding in the country is caused partially due to the opening of the Farakka barrage in West Bengal, prompting a fact-check by the Government of India, which trashed all such reports as "fake".

India and Bangladesh today signed an interim water sharing agreement for Kushiyara river, the first such pact since the signing of the Ganga water treaty in 1996.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the people of her country were awaiting early signing and the implementation of the Framework of Interim Agreement for sharing of the Teesta waters.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day visit to India and arrived in Delhi yesterday, received a grand welcome from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. PM Hasina then headed to Rajghat to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi.

India today said "behind the scene" efforts are underway to resolve the long-pending Teesta water sharing issue with Bangladesh similar to the settlement of the historic Land Boundary Agreement with the neighbouring country.

The land boundary agreement, he said, was another link in the chain. The agreement was formally signed between the two countries 41 years after it was endorsed. Under the deal, the two countries will swap 161 tiny enclaves, whose 50,000-odd inhabitants have been deprived of not only of nationality, but also of public services.

Mamata Banerjee reached Dhaka on Thursday night, on her first visit to the city as West Bengal Chief Minister. All eyes are on what she might say during her visit on the contentious issue of Teesta water sharing.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held talks with her Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on key bilateral issues, including Land Boundary Agreement and proposed Teesta river water sharing deal, during which the Indian side also raised the matter of illegal immigration.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh arrived in Dhaka today for a two-day visit under the shadow of the stalled Teesta river sharing agreement.