Troubled waters

At a time India is trying to take ties with its eastern neighbour to the next level, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's high-profile Bangladesh visit could've done without this unseemly controversy. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled out of the trip at the eleventh hour, saying the Teesta water-sharing pact will give far more water to Bangladesh than she'd agreed to. This, she felt, would hurt north Bengal's interests.

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