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Waterkeepers Bangladesh celebrates World Rivers Day
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:20pm on September 28, 2020
Waterkeepers Bangladesh and River Angle on Sunday jointly organised a daylong programme with children at a government primary school in Gazipur’s Kaliyakoir area to celebrate...
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Number of rivers still unknown
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:48am on September 28, 2020
The exact number of rivers in Bangladesh is still unknown as National River Conservation Commission chairman Md Muzibur Rahman Howlader on Sunday claimed that they...
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River Commission asks DCs to evict 3 power plants
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:32am on September 28, 2020
The National River Conservation Commission chairman Md Muzibur Rahman Howlader on Sunday ordered the deputy commissioners of Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Barguna to evict three private...
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Bangladesh govt urged to save rivers
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 07:19pm on September 27, 2020
Politicians, academics, and river experts on Sunday said that Bangladesh should immediately take initiatives to save its people from flood and river erosion. The observations...
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No let-up in river grab, pollution
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:00am on September 27, 2020
All the estimated 500 rivers across the country are facing grabbing, pollution and navigation problems despite dozens of plans formulated for their conservation and several...
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Many Ashrayan villages lost to river erosion
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:47pm on September 18, 2020
At least 215 families provided shelter under Ashrayan Prakalpa, one of the prime minister’s priority projects, became homeless after rivers devoured two villages created under...
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Environmental flow must to keep rivers alive: water secy
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:44am on September 11, 2020
Conservation of environmental flow of trans-boundary rivers is essential to keep the rivers alive as well as to protect biodiversity in respective basin areas, water...
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Rivers now below danger levels first time in 64 days
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:45pm on August 29, 2020
For the first time in 64 days all major rivers in Bangladesh flowed below their danger levels at a time on Saturday as the 2nd...
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Smaller vessel movement suspended
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on August 27, 2020
Movements of all smaller passenger and cargo vessels were suspended across the country on Wednesday till further notice due to inclement weather and rough river...
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Rivers in north swell again as India opens 3 barrages
Emran Hossain with Rezaul Karim Manik in Lalmonirhat | Updated at 12:34am on August 13, 2020
Parts of low-lying north in Bangladesh went under water overnight on Wednesday, less than a week after they came out of over a month-long flooding,...
