Bangladesh’s new prime minister has formally asked China to help with a long-delayed river project near the sensitive Siliguri Corridor
3-MIN READ3-MINMaria SiowPublished: 1:30pm, 16 May 2026Every dry season, the Teesta River shrinks a little more – and with it, the livelihoods of millions of Bangladeshis who depend on its waters to survive.
The US$1 billion scheme aims to dredge and rehabilitate more than 102km (63 miles) of a waterway that originates in the eastern Himalayas and passes through India’s Sikkim and West Bengal before flowing into Bangladesh.
