Dhaka, Feb. 18 -- Thousands of people residing on the banks of Teesta River have held a mass procession demanding the fair distribution of its waters and implementation of a mega project involving the conservation and management of the section of the river in Bangladesh.

Demonstrators began marching from Teesta Bridge in Lalmonirhat Sadar at 10am, bound for Rangpur's Kaunia on Tuesday morning.

They returned to Teesta Bridge from Kaunia after concluding a demonstration that lasted about an hour and 45 minutes. At the end of the march, the protesters got into the Teesta River and held up signs on boards around 12pm.

An organisation named Teesta Nadi Rokkha Andolan, or the Save the Teesta River Movement, called a 48-hour sit-in programme ...