India-Bangladesh: Energy has to be the driver
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a long-overdue, much-anticipated trip to Dhaka on September 6. But West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to repudiate the interim Teesta and...
View ArticleUnquenchable thirst
Compared with much of South Asia, Kashmir, a disputed territory in northern India, has many rivers and relatively few people. But even here fresh water is running short. To see how contentious this can...
View ArticleBangladesh: A passage through Tripura
Morshed Khan, Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2001 to 2006, was fond of stating that if Bangladesh was India- locked, then Tripura was Bangladesh- locked. Tripura and Bangladesh have a special...
View ArticleThe benefits of a settled border
On July 8, a United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration’s tribunal in Bangladesh announced its ruling in the arbitration, started in 2009, on the delimitation of the country’s maritime boundary with...
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