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The River Bakkhali in Cox’s Bazar is shrinking by the day as locals continue to encroach on riverside land and build hundreds of structures including wooden piers, oil barges, sand selling centres, and residential houses illegally. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin/TBS
Environment

Pollution, chronic encroachments choke River Bakkhali

Beneath the arched culvert is a shallow furrow – now dry but once it was the riverbed of the mighty Karatoa. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Karatoa: How a river is killed

Illustration: TBS
Panorama

Is it possible to artificially narrow the Jamuna River?

Household and industrial wastes occupy the riverbed of River Karnaphuli. The once-mighty Karnaphuli has now been reduced to a canal due to large-scale encroachment of the riverbed and careless waste dumping. The photo was taken near the Shah Amanat Bridge of the port city recently. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Bangladesh

Political parties must have river, water issues in manifestos: IFC

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Bangladesh

Develop integrated river management system to save rivers: Experts

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Bangladesh

Govt to start evaluation of rivers, other natural resources

representational Image. Tin-shed houses have been built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River. Photo: Md Minhaz Uddin/TBS
Environment

Ctg MPs warned of legal consequences for ignoring orders of river protection body

PM Sheikh Hasina/TBS Sketch.
Bangladesh

River routes can be extended to Bhutan with completion of Payra Channel: PM

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Panorama

'This time the Committee did not merely recommend, we now have an inter-ministerial agreement to save Dhaleshwari river'

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury. File Photo: Collected
Environment

90% of river encroachments recovered by BIWTA: Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury 

During the dry season when the water level recedes, the workers collectively extract more than a 100 tonnes of coal each day. Photo: Mumit M
Panorama

Standing in the shallow waters of Someshwari, these miners find coal

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Bangladesh

Ensure contamination-free river water within a year: Commission 

Buriganga River. Photo: Mumit M
Bangladesh

Project to flush out Buriganga pollution nears end