India is considering revising the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty with Bangladesh, set to expire in 2026. New Delhi seeks a new treaty reflecting its current irrigation, port maintenance, and power ...

The Farakka barrage stands as a classic example of engineering solutions that looked at short-term economic benefits and ignored long-term sustainability concerns.

Nitish reportedly said: “The current flood-like situation in 12 districts including Patna has been a result of silt being deposited in Ganga, due to construction of Farakka dam in West Bengal. The ...

Kolkata: A Jangipur court on Friday sentenced Dinabandhu Halder, who was a day earlier convicted of raping and killing a nine-year-old girl in Farakka.

Flood hit Farakka barrage may have worsened the floods in Bihar, but removing it will pose other problems Why the controversial barrage was built on the Ganga just upstream of the India-Bangladesh ...

FARAKKA: Six persons, including an assistant sub-inspector of police, were killed when a private bus on the Siliguri-Behrampore route collided head-on with an oil tanker at Gholakandi in ...

The Farakka Barrage, which has so far been the point of contention for India-Bangladesh transboundary water relations, is now emerging as an inter-state water dispute. The Bihar chief minister has ...

India is planning to amend the 1996 Ganges Treaty with Bangladesh to address its rising water needs and changing geopolitical dynamics, signalling a broader reset in regional water-sharing agreements ...

A village in Murshidabad’s Farakka is having to drink water from the local feeder canal for the past 10 days as both its tube wells are defunct. As many as 1,500 residents of Bonidapukur village of ...

Bihar chief minister also underscored his protest against the move to build a barrage and reservoir near Buxar and in Uttar Pradesh for creating a waterway route from Allahabad to Haldia.

DHAKA, Sept 11: Indian authorities recently opened all the gates of the Farakka Barrage, causing a sudden, and heavy onrush of water into the Padma River, as a result of which about 1,000 ...

It is heavy rain for which the water level in the Padma and Ganges rivers is increasing and creating a possibility of floods in the country.