India and Bangladesh agreed on ad hoc sharing of the Teesta waters. Under the new arrangements, Bangladesh will get 36 per cent and India 39 per cent of the flows while the remaining 25 per cent will remain unallocated.
On Baisakhi day, the first batch of 31,500 Akali volunteers of the proposed “self-sacrificing squad” took an oath at the Akal Takht, the highest seat of the Sikh religion, offering their “heads in the service of the Panth”.
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