Teesta River
Lessons we can learn from the recent Teesta disaster
We do need a Teesta megaplan, but not the one that the BWDB is proposing.
Teesta rises 16cm overnight in Kurigram, flowing 23cm above danger level
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
Teesta flooding should be a wake-up call
Bangladesh must push India to sign the treaty
Teesta flowing 41cm above danger mark; thousands marooned in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram
Teesta river continues to swell due to the incessant rains and onrush hilly water
Youth grow crops in Teesta's sandy chars with group efforts
The members of a co-operative organisation brought success in group farming by using unused sandy chars of Teesta river
New canals from Teesta / The hydro-hegemony in South Asia
India also gets to exploit Bangladesh based on its technological projects.
'Teestar Kanna' brings Teesta shoal residents to tears
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.
Teesta / The Name of a Plundered River
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.
Teesta sorrows everflowing
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.
Water flows in Teesta above danger level
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.
Lokman Ali brings hope for underprivileged children of Teesta bank
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.
Feni water given; wait on for Teesta
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 Story of Teesta
The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.
Arid and barren
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.
Still they play tyre game
The 'tyre game' is still very popular among the children in the Teesta river char (landmass emerging from riverbed) areas of the district
One lakh people under flood threat
About one lakh people are under threat of floods on the shoals and chars of the Teesta river in five upazilas in Lalmonirhat as the river is about to cross the danger level due to heavy downpour upstream across the border.
Teesta deal finalised
The Teesta water-sharing treaty between Bangladesh and India is going to be signed soon as the agreement has been finalised, according to a government adviser.
Teesta, security on agenda
The much-delayed Teesta river water-sharing deal, security, transit and killing of Bangladeshis on the border are expected to be high on the agenda as the foreign secretaries of Bangladesh and India meet in New Delhi today.
The piece of land which was once a raging river Teesta
Man-made intervention in the upstream turns Teesta a wild river in monsoon and a desert in winter.
