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

Karatoa: How a river is killed

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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

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

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Develop integrated river management system to save rivers: Experts

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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

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

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

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

Former state minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury. File Photo: Collected

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

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

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Ensure contamination-free river water within a year: Commission 

Buriganga River. Photo: Mumit M

Project to flush out Buriganga pollution nears end

Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb during an interaction with media at Tripura Bhawan in New Delhi on March 20, 2019/ HT Photo

India will bear 80% cost of dredging work in Meghna river on Bangladesh side: Tripura CM