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  Minister visits water development projects

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:26am on September 13, 2020

  Water resource state minister Zahid Faruk toured the circular waterway, the Turag-Buriganga-Tongi canal-Balu-Shitalakhya-Dhaleshwari route, around the capital city by a speedboat on...

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  Flood victims in crises of food, water, medical services

  Emran Hossain  | Updated at 12:09am on August 16, 2020

  With thousands still unable to return home from flood shelters in central Bangladesh, major rivers such as the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Padma and their tributaries...

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  Water in major rivers begins receding

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:44pm on August 08, 2020

  All major rivers in the country that flowed above their danger levels for nearly a month and a half showed signs of receding in the...

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  Flood, rain paralyse life across Bangladesh

  Emran Hossain and Tapos Kanti Das | Updated at 11:38pm on July 21, 2020

  Incessant rain over the last couple of days and worsening flood in at least in 21 districts due to a steady rise in water levels...

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  56 northern villages flooded as Gazaldoba barrage opened

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:36am on June 27, 2020

  At least 56 villages in 12 upazilas of four northern districts went under water after the Teesta and Dharla rivers swelled by about a quarter...

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  HC stays DWASA step to raise water tariff

  M Moneruzzaman  | Updated at 12:31am on June 23, 2020

  The High Court on Monday stayed a Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority notice about increasing water price until August 10. Earlier, DWASA issued a...

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  Fresh areas go under water as rivers continue to swell

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:59am on June 07, 2020

  Fresh areas went under water in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat and Kurigram as most of the country’s major rivers continued to swell until Saturday amid heavy rains...

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  Social distancing on launches still ignored

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:18am on June 07, 2020

  Directives for maintaining social distancing on passengers launches continued to be ignored on Saturday even after a week of resuming the water transport service. Most...

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  Acute water crisis grips Amphan-hit coastal areas

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:31am on May 30, 2020

  Super cyclone Amphan has either damaged or rendered unusable almost all sources of safe drinking water in the country’s most water-stressed coastal areas, leaving thousands...

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  Failure to pay rent leads to power, water supply cut

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:50pm on May 02, 2020

  A house owner cut off power and water supplies to a women mess in the Capital’s Shankar area as its boarders allegedly could not pay...