50km detour from Burimari Land Port raises transport costs, travel time

Government must move beyond symbolic enforcement to protect the riverbeds

Declining flows, pollution and destructive fishing practices are pushing one of Bangladesh's richest river ecosystems towards crisis

This surge in water levels at the Teesta Barrage has led to the opening of six gates, out of the 44 gates, at the barrage, causing water to flow into the chars downstream

We do need a Teesta megaplan, but not the one that the BWDB is proposing.

The Teesta river's water level has risen by 16cm since last night, and the river was flowing 23cm above the danger level at 6:00am today at Kaunia point of the Teesta Barrage

Bangladesh must push India to sign the treaty

Teesta river continues to swell due to the incessant rains and onrush hilly water

The members of a co-operative organisation brought success in group farming by using unused sandy chars of Teesta river

India also gets to exploit Bangladesh based on its technological projects.

Poet and writer Ishor Dulon Roy, author of Teestar Kanna, told The Daily Star that many of his relatives live on the Teesta shoal. Once they were all rich, all now lost to the river erosion.

West Bengal is planning to dig two new canals to divert more water from the Teesta River for irrigation, and set up two hydropower projects on its tributary.

When Bangladesh and India were about to ink a deal on sharing the Teesta water in 2010, people living by the river in Rangpur region dreamt of better days.

Residents in Kurigram’s Bajra union now below poverty line after losing all to erosion by Teesta river.

Water flows of Teesta River alarmingly cross the danger level at Dalia point of Nilphamari district this morning near Teesta barrage inundating vast crops fields and homesteads in the low-lying areas and 15 shoals of Dimla and Jaldhaka upazila.

This is a story of a landless 63-years-old teacher Lokman Ali. In a remote corner of the country, on the bank of Teesta, he is spreading the light of education among children.

With Dhaka eagerly waiting for the signing of the Teesta water-sharing deal, Bangladesh and India yesterday signed an MoU allowing India to take 1.82 cusec water from the Feni river.

The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.

If it were before 1983, people would be seen fishing at the exact same spot where children now play football, on Teesta’s sandy floor lying arid and barren. The river is no longer blessed with water, except for a few months of the year.

The 'tyre game' is still very popular among the children in the Teesta river char (landmass emerging from riverbed) areas of the district