The recent call by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to remove the Farakka barrage has added a new dimension to the ongoing debate on the utility of the barrage. Located in the Indian state of West ...

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 border ...

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 ...

Like Farakka, this barrage, if built, will cause upstream riverbed aggradation, leading to increased flooding and riverbank erosion. There is no doubt that flows of the rivers of southeast ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farakka minor’s rapist-killer gets death, accomplice life Dwaipayan.Ghosh / Dec 14, 2024, 01:27 IST Share AA ...

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 ...

This story is from August 4, 2008 Time bomb found near Farakka Subhro Maitra / TNN / Aug 4, 2008, 04:52 IST AA Follow us ...

An unprecedented dip in the water level of Farakka feeder canal has yet again forced the country’s largest power producer, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), to suspend generation at ...

Hindustan Times, Patna | By Anil Kumar Feb 21, 2017 07:41 AM IST ...

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