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    397 : The Teesta Muddle: Can India and Bangladesh Find a Way Out?

    Amit Ranjan

    3 April 2017

    In recent years Teesta water sharing treaty has been one of the major issues of political and economic concerns between India and Bangladesh. Bangladesh needs a larger quantity of water from the trans-boundary river Teesta for economic and political reasons, and the same factors guide the Chief Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal 'Ms Mamata Banerjee' to not agree to share about fifty percent of the waters with Bangladesh.