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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...