Critical climate stress moments may be defined as those moments when households, communities, and their livelihood systems are vulnerable to climate related risks and hazards. This working paper examines critical climate stress moments due to specific climatic and biophysical causes experienced by the people in the Teesta River basin in …
Bangladesh on Friday assured that the fallout of Teesta water sharing treaty will have no impact on bilateral relations with India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh last year, the treaty was not signed following resistance from West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. The plan …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will ask External Affairs Minister SM Krishna to meet Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to clear her doubts on the Teesta River Treaty and the India-Bangladesh land boundary agreement which have been vetoed by the key UPA ally. The matter was …
A s the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world's most heavily militarised borders into Pakistan. The hum of excavators echoes through …
Siliguri, July 17: The state irrigation department has decided to introduce an early warning system in case of a sudden rise in river water levels in north Bengal. Manas Bhunia, the irrigation minister who is on a tour of the flood-hit parts in Jalpaiguri, said the absence of a warning …
Jalpaiguri, July 15: Heavy overnight rain in Jalpaiguri district has left several areas flooded and two river embankments with cracks because of the sudden rise in water levels. The areas worst affected are the blocks of Banarhat, Dhupguri, Nagrakata and Jalpaiguri Sadar where over 700 homes are under water. According …
In a setback to NCC Limited, formerly Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited, the Sikkim government is believed to have cancelled the proposed Teesta-I hydel power project that was bagged by the company. According to a senior official of the Sikkim government, the state home department has issued a notification cancelling the …
The government of northeastern Indian state of Sikkim has decided to scrap four hydroelectric projects on tributaries of the Teesta river in North Sikkim in the wake of opposition from the locals. The Sikkim cabinet at its May 10 meeting approved of the projects of 99 MW-280MW power plants, A …
Despite objections from Central Ministries fearing delay and undue veto power to Bangladesh The Prime Minister's Office (PMO), backed by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), has overruled the demurring among other Central Ministries over giving Bangladesh a stake in the mega Tipaimukh multipurpose hydel project in Manipur. But India …
Mamata’s Intractable Opposition Nixes Efforts For A Pact. Bangladesh could be ready to revisit the Teesta water treaty’s terms as the ruling Awami League faces growing political heat but Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee’s intractable opposition is stalemating all efforts to ink the pact. Recent attempts to sound out the West …
With power in India shifting to the states due to an increasingly weak central government, secretary of state Hillary Clinton chose Kolkata as the first stop of her India tour to advance US foreign-policy interests. In a televised interview before meeting with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Clinton pushed …
New Delhi: India-Bangladesh relations “will take a huge hit”, if India cannot deliver on the Teesta agreement, says Dipu Moni, foreign minister of Bangladesh. In an exclusive conversation with ToI, Moni, who is in India for the first joint consultative committee meeting with foreign minister S M Krishna, said, “on …
India on Monday assured Bangladesh that the government was working “very hard” to develop “political consensus” on two bilateral agreements — the Teesta water-sharing treaty and the land boundary pact — but did not commit to a time-frame, sources told The Indian Express on Monday. A worried Bangladesh government has …
Singh Dwells On Need To Engage Tehran New Delhi/Kolkata: India wants Iran to fulfill international obligations with regard to its nuclear programme, but New Delhi cannot lose sight of its energy security needs, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a wide-ranging discussion in the …
New Delhi: India is still trying to build a “political consensus” over the issue of Teesta water-sharing pact with Bangladesh. The first joint consultative commission meeting, co-chaired by foreign minister S M Krishna and his Bangladeshi counterpart Dipu Moni, on Monday saw Dhaka insisting on early signing of the pact, …
The US has agreed to treat West Bengal as a partner state for investment in the changed political situation, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here today. "They will invest in West Bengal which could not take place due to the political situation in the past," Banerjee told reporters after a …
The UPA Government, which had earlier faced a major embarrassment from its ally Trinamool Congress on the Teesta water agreement, has renewed efforts to convince Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to sign the pact with Bangladesh on grounds that it is beneficial to both countries. The Water Resources Development Ministry …
Environmentalists yesterday demanded the government's immediate and firm steps to stop India's National River Linking Project for the sake of Bangladesh's existence. They were addressing a rally organised by Green Voice, an organisation of young environmentalists, marking its seventh anniversary and Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Bangladesh from …
Kolkata, 29 April: Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni tonight said her country “is sure” that the Teesta water-sharing agreement with India will materialise. “We are sure the agreement will materialise. The people of Bangladesh are also optimistic about it,” Mrs Moni told reporters on the sidelines of a function, where …
Teesta water sharing, ratification of land boundary agreement and early signing of an extradition treaty would dominate talks between India and Bangladesh at the first Joint Commission meeting likely to be held in May. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni would lead Bangladesh delegation to New Delhi for the first meeting of …
The Supreme Court’s verdict directing the Government of India to implement the interlinking of rivers seems to have overlooked the regional and international implications of what the Indian Court strangely considers “the rivers of the country”. Just Bangladesh shares 54 rivers with India. Any unilateral action by India on any …
