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  Save rivers for water security, biodiversity: Environmentalists

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:17am on March 23, 2021

  Green activists and academics at a discussion on Monday asked the government to take pragmatic actions to save the rivers across the country for ensuring...

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  Bangladesh protests at Mohananda water withdrawal by India

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:04am on March 18, 2021

  The signing of instruments on the sharing of water of the Teesta and six other rivers will not be discussed during the visit of Indian...

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  India disaster highlights pressure on Asia’s great rivers

  Agence France-Presse . Kuala Lumpur | Updated at 10:00am on February 10, 2021

  A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas at the weekend was a disaster waiting to happen, and one likely...

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  Deal signed to protect River Meghna

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:43pm on January 23, 2021

  The local government division on Saturday finally signed a contract with the Institute of Water Modelling and the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services...

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  An unending sorry tale of river reclamation failures

  | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2021

  THE reclamation of river land grabbed by people having political and moneyed clout appears to have been a sorry tale of efforts in that the...

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  Grabbers reoccupy river lands month after eviction

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 11:44pm on January 08, 2021

  Only 32.37 per cent grabbers of the country’s river lands were evicted in over a year’s time while many grabbers reoccupied the lands few months...

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  India seeks to engage bordering states in finalising deal 

  Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Updated at 12:10am on January 07, 2021

  The Indian government on Wednesday expressed intent to engage its states bordering with Bangladesh in the process of finalising a framework agreement on sharing of...

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  Dhaka likely to seek more info on six rivers

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:22am on January 06, 2021

  Bangladesh and India are likely to hold an assessment today on the progress on signing a framework agreement for sharing of the waters of six...

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  BIWTA misplaces 50pc river pillars to facilitate grabbers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:11am on January 02, 2021

  Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority set 1,423 river demarcation pillars on faulty location facilitating the grabbers to encroach on river foreshores, says a study unveiled...

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  Bangladesh-India border dispute resolution uncertain

  Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Updated at 11:35pm on December 21, 2020

  A full settlement of the Bangladesh-India border disputes has become uncertain with India seeking a major deviation from the principle of demarcation in violation of...