• on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?

Facts on topics related to Sharing of Ganges Waters

Bay of Bengal

• Cyclone Mala was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal to be named, although several unnamed cyclones have been stronger?

Ganges

• according to Hindu mythology, the five Pandava brothers followed a route to heaven alongside the Panch Prayag (Devprayag pictured) – five confluences which finally result in the holy Ganges river?
• archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi, West Bengal, small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains?

Brahmaputra River

• the Manas River (pictured), a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, is the largest river system in Bhutan?