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  Ensuring water-flow in rivers stressed

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Rangpur | Updated at 12:51am on March 15, 2020

  Riverside people and activists of Begum Rokeya University unit of the Riverine People at a discussion on Saturday stressed on ensuring round the year water-flow...

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  MPs, leaders, businesses, among grabbers

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:43am on March 15, 2020

  Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has reclaimed 243.95 acres land of the Buriganga, Turag, Balu, Shitalakkhya and Dhaleswari by evicting over 9,200 buildings, factories and...

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  New body to protect rivers, nat’l interests launched

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:32am on March 13, 2020

  The problems over common rivers between Bangladesh and India are not natural, but political, said Dhaka University emeritus professor and social thinker Serajul Islam Choudhury...

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  One-third river demarcation pillars installed: state minister

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:37am on March 11, 2020

  State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Tuesday said that 3,000 out of 10,000 demarcation pillars had already been installed on the banks of...

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  Khalid urges river border pillar works completion in time

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 01:23am on March 09, 2020

  State minister of shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday requested the authorities concerned to complete the construction work of border pillars, walkways and jetties and...

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  A collective failure about river protection, largely, mostly

  | Updated at 12:00am on March 08, 2020

  A COLLECTIVE failure comes to the forefront when it comes to issues of river conservation. The High Court — which on February 3, 2019 issued...

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  High Court directives to save Bangladesh rivers ignored

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:07am on March 07, 2020

  The High Court directives issued to protect the country’s rivers from grabbing and pollution have largely remained ignored by the ministries and agencies concerned in...

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  River reclamation drive mustn’t run into any glitches

  | Updated at 12:00am on March 06, 2020

  A RULING Awami League lawmaker trying to stop an eviction drive of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority that is reclaiming the grabbed land of...

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  Body formed to relocate religious establishments

  Ershad Kamol   | Updated at 12:23am on February 20, 2020

  An inter-ministerial committee was formed on Wednesday to prepare a report on relocation of 113 religious establishments and educational institution developed illegally grabbing rivers around...

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  ACC asks govt to take action against river grabbers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:10am on February 14, 2020

  The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday asked the government to rescue the rivers and to take action against the river grabbers across the country. The commission...