As rivers dry up and new lands emerge in Faridpur, horse carts and motorbikes have become vital tools for survival in its remote char areas.

RIVERS have for long been Bangladesh’s lifeblood — irrigating paddy fields at dawn, carrying timber and trade by noon, and ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said that the government is developing strategic plans to curb ongoing damage to the rivers. She said, "We have little control over upstream activities, ...

The Water Development Board, the agency responsible for protecting rivers, has officially declared two rivers in Bogura—the 29 km-long Ghoria and the 19.5 km-long Chandrabati—as "missing," raising ...

Cargo traffic via Indo–Bangladesh's shared waterways has also seen a dip. Railway projects and train services remain suspended. According to officials in the know, bookings for Ganga Vilas are open, ...

Bangladesh’s Meghna River – a major source of the local fisherfolk’s bread and butter – has turned into a toxic graveyard for aquatic life, with hundreds of dead fish found floating along the banks of ...

Once the lifeblood of Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila, the Hatimara river has all but vanished, leaving behind a legacy of lost ...

Bangladesh has established a floating border outpost in the Sundarban area near the Indian frontier to enhance patrol and ...

It is unfortunate that, despite all the development we have undergone in five decades, river erosion remains a relentless ...

Myanmar’s armed rebel group, the Arakan Army (AA), has abducted three Bangladeshi fishermen after opening fire on the Naf ...