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 …
The India-Bangladesh secretary-level talks of the Joint River Commission (JRC), removed four years long deadlock over the construction of 14 irrigation projects along the border in Tripura, officials said here today. During the one-day JRC meeting held in Dhaka Monday, the two countries have agreed to sign a 15-year interim …
Agartala: The India-Bangladesh Secretary-level talks of the Joint River Commission (JRC), removed four years long deadlock over the construction of 14 irrigation projects along the border in Tripura, officials said here on Wednesday. During the one-day JRC meeting held in Dhaka on Monday, the two countries have agreed to sign …
DHAKA: In what is seen as a major development in India-Bangladesh relations, New Delhi and Dhaka have agreed to sign a 15-year interim accord on sharing the waters of common rivers Teesta and Feni. This was decided at a Secretary-level meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint River Commission (JRC) here Monday. …
Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed on a framework of a 15-year treaty for sharing the Teesta and the Feni rivers' water in dry season. The treaty will be signed sometime either during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Bangladesh visit this year or later at a convenient time. The agreement was …
Peeved by the inordinate delay in reaching agreements on water sharing with India, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said that at this rate the two neighbours would need "a millennium" to sign deals on 54 common rivers. "In 40 years we have done (agreement) for one (Ganges), (and) are …
waters of 54 common rivers, said foreign affairs minister Dipu Moni Saturday. ‘In 40 years we have done (signed agreement) for one (Ganges), (and) are on the verge of doing another one (agreement on sharing of Teesta’s water). At this rate we will need another millennium to conclude agreements on …
Gauging a river’s health need not be complex. Taxonomists can make the job very simple. These biologists, who have specialised in the classification of organisms, can determine a river’s health with the unaided eye by simply studying the organisms present. There is little need, therefore, for bottling samples and rushing …
GAUGING a river’s health need not be complex. Taxonomists can make the job very simple. These biologists, who have specialised in the classification of organisms, can determine a river’s health with the unaided eye by simply studying the organisms present. There is little need, therefore, for bottling samples and rushing …
Siliguri, Aug. 18: An alert has been sounded in Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts following the rise in the water level of the Teesta after heavy rain lashed the region for 24 hours. In Siliguri, panic struck after earth from the base of the last pillar of the Mahananda Bridge …
Darjeeling, July 19: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has decided to withdraw its 70-day-old strike at two NHPC project sites from tomorrow following an assurance from the central power agency that it will set up an engineering college in the hills. The Teesta Low Dam Project Stage III (worth Rs 768.92 …
KOLKATA, 30 JUNE: The state government is planning to shift from thermal power to gas-based power plants and in the process has already entered into MoUs with GAIL and Reliance, said Mr Nirupam Sen, power minister, in the Assembly lobby today. He said: "GAIL has promised us to supply gas …
- CSlearance after changes in barrage height OUR CORRESPONDENT Gangtok, June 13: The Centre has given permission for the resumption of survey and investigations for three power projects with a combined potential of 709MW on the Teesta and its tributaries in North Sikkim. The projects had been put on hold …
Sarikah Atreya The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given permission for continuation of survey and investigations for three mega power projects out of six projects in North Sikkim that had been put on hold following adverse reports submitted by Centre of Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Mountains and Hill Environment …
Fighting for water is not as rare as we think it is. Brawls and loss of life are reported every summer from different parts of the country. Yet, there is very little urgency about using water more efficiently. VIBHA SHARMA reports on the worsening situation * DIAMONDS AND OIL ETC …
Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen said that Bangladesh is hopeful of signing the Teesta water sharing treaty with India soon. Preparations in this regard are on to hold a secretary level meeting in Dhaka soon, he said while talking to BSS here yesterday. Ramesh said the meeting would discuss …
After a gap of five years, India and Bangladesh on Thursday resumed discussions on the sharing of the Teesta river waters and issues relating to other rivers. The water resources secretaries of the two countries met here in the morning, followed by the ministeriallevel joint river commission meeting later in …
NEW DELHI, 18 MARCH: As the two-day water talks began here, Bangladesh today hoped to reach an interim agreement on the vexed issue of Teesta river water sharing at the meeting being held after a gap of five years while India insisted on sorting out certain technical issues first.
The long pending Teesta water sharing issue is likely to be resolved as minister and secretary level talks of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) between Dhaka and Delhi would start on March 17. The secretaries of the water resources ministries of Bangladesh and India will sit on March 17, while …
Truckloads of trash dumped in river RAJEEV RAVIDAS Waste being dumped in the Teesta at Labarbote near Kalimpong. Picture by Chinlop Fudong Lepcha Kalimpong, March 2: Ignoring environmental concerns, the Kalimpong municipality continues to dump garbage in the Teesta river. And, in the absence of any concerted campaign to stop …
