After a gap of over 12 long years, Bangladesh and India are holding a minister-level meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission in New Delhi on August 25 to discuss unresolved issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers.
Sitting in a roadside garage near what used to be her home, Nasima Begum, 70, was seen trying to salvage whatever was edible from paddy she had stored earlier.
Water levels rose in some low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj due to heavy rain in the country’s northeastern region and water flowing in from the upstream of India’s Meghalaya yesterday.