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 …
Haroon Habib DHAKA: Bangladesh and India have agreed to resolve outstanding issues relating to water sharing and decided that they will jointly start work for the protection of banks of the common rivers. The consensus came at the end of the two-day crucial water talks at the Secretary level here …
India and Bangladesh today launched their crucial two-day talks to hammer out a deal on sharing of waters of Teesta river, with Dhaka favouring an "interim agreement" on the issue if it is not possible to reach a long-term pact. The Secretary-level talks opened at the state guest house of …
We examined the spatial distribution pattern of reptiles in an eastern Himalayan elevation gradient. The factors governing the distribution have been assessed with emphasis on the mid-domain effect. We surveyed reptiles along the elevation gradient (300–4800 m) of the Teesta valley in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, India using time constrained visual …
In a glimmer of hope for six hydel projects in North Sikkim with a projected generation capacity of 1,047 MW, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has sought complete technical data for consideration of its earlier decision to put them on hold. Complete technical data from a competent …
Aug. 20: The army has been called in Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar to evacuate over 1,500 marooned families. More than 3,500 families in three north Bengal districts have been affected after the water level of the rivers passing through them rose. The Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling and the Sadar and …
The Centre has frozen six mega hydel power projects with a capacity of 1,047 MW proposed in North Sikkim following an adverse report submitted by Centre of Inter-Disciplinary Studies of Mountains and Hill Environment (CISME). The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had taken the CISME report seriously and derailed …
Undaunted by the landslide victory of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) in the Sikkim Assembly polls, an apolitical outfit has decided to carry on with its agitation against two proposed hydel projects in Dzongu region of North Sikkim.
Sikkim is facing great challenge to protect the natural resource from land degradation and erosion. The whole state of Sikkim is hilly and cris-crossed by number of streams. Soil erosion is one of the major problems. The hills of Sikkim mainly consist of gneissose and half-schistose rocks, making their soil …
In view of the observation of Carrying Capacity Study of Teesta Basin as ecologically sensitive North Sikkim, Ministry of Environment and Forests have decided that projects above Chungthang area should not be considered for construction of dams and large scale developmental activities.
The indigenous Lepchas of Sikkim are using Gandhian methods of protest to prevent construction of hydel projects that will destroy their land and the environment. At a time when politics has been reduced to a numbers game, they know that their minority status is against them. But they are determined …
Morcha supporters sign on a map outlining the territory they want to be considered as Gorkhaland near Darjeeling More in Siliguri on Tuesday. Picture by Kundan Yolmo Darjeeling, Aug. 19: The forest department has agreed to conduct a field inspection next week for the transfer of land to the NHPC …
Erosion by the River Teesta has turned grave at village Kalmati under Lalmonirhat sadar upazila with over 120 houses devoured in the last few days. Standing crops on about 20 acres of land, fruit gardens and homesteads have gone into the gorge of the river at the village, 12 kilometers …
Flooding of Dimla and Jaldhaka upazilas in Nilphamari district with the rise of Teeta and its tributaries and other rivers in Nilphamari including Saniajan, Buri Teesta, Deunai, Burikhora, Charalkanta, Jamuneswari, Panga still remains at a precarious level. The rivers swelled as India opened all the gates of Gojaldoba barrage in …
While all other rivers were flowing below their danger level, only the Teesta in the north was flowing 37cm above red mark Saturday morning. But the river swelled by onrush of water from upstream may calm down from Saturday afternoon, said an official of the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre. …
All major rivers and their tributaries marked further rises following continuous moderate to heavy rainfalls and onrush of hilly waters from upper catchments in the greater Rangpur area, officials said on Friday. There is no flood situation so far in Kurigram, Rangpur, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Gaibandha where the rivers marked …
