canal

Chattogram City Corporation Mayor Shahadat Hossain speaks at a workshop at the city's Zilla Parishad auditorium on 25 February 2025. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Canals being filled by garbage dumped from multi-storey buildings: Ctg mayor

File photo of the High Court division building of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. Photo: Collected
Court

HC orders action plan for Rangpur Shyamasundari Canal restoration

Ctg Port Authority starts dredging canals to ease waterlogging in city
Bangladesh

Ctg Port Authority starts dredging canals to ease waterlogging in city

An excavator removes waste from the Baunia canal in Dhaka, which stretches about 7.2 km from Mirpur-13 before merging with the Turag River in Uttara, recently. City corporation officials say given the current situation, apart from cleaning the waste from the canal, it is not possible to demolish or remove illegal structures. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

Recovering Dhaka’s canals from encroachers won’t be easy – Baunia canal shows why

Efforts to recover Dhaka’s encroached, terminally degraded canals are not new. Photo: TBS
Panorama

Canal restoration effort: What’s new this time?

A canal in Satarkul is fenced and netted for fish farming, despite the Jalmahal Management Policy prohibiting the obstruction of water flow. Photo: Masud Al Mamun
Panorama

Time to end the leasing of wetlands?

Environment, Forest, Climate Change, and Water Resources Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan inaugurated renovation work on four canals in Dhaka North and two in Dhaka South on 2 February. Photo: TBS
Environment

Govt launches drive to restore 19 Dhaka canals before monsoon

Syeda Rizwana Hasan. TBS Sketch
Environment

Govt planning ‘Blue Network’ for Dhaka by restoring canals: Rizwana

Representational image.
Bangladesh

3 bodies recovered after being washed away in Ctg canals

Many canals and drains in Chattogram city, like the Chashma Canal in this photo, lack safety fencing. During the monsoon flooding, residents brace for accidents due to the unprotected banks. This photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: Minhaz Uddin/TBS
Bangladesh

Unprotected drains, canals in Ctg: What authorities really doing about it?

Police recovered the body of a child, who went missing on Saturday evening, from a canal in the Agrabad area of Chattogram city on 9 June. Illustration: Collected
Bangladesh

Body of missing child recovered from canal in Ctg

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam at the Paris Canal situated in the capital’s Mirpur-11 on Wednesday (31 January). File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Mayor Atiq for restoring occupied canals in his last year in office 

'Unplanned' canal excavation damages roads in Barishal
Infrastructure

'Unplanned' canal excavation damages roads in Barishal