rivers in Bangladesh

Prepare, publish list of rivers within 2 months

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the environment and water resources ministries, yesterday instructed the Bangladesh Water Development Board, BIWTA, National River Conservation Commission, and Divisional Commissioners to finalise the total number of rivers in the country within two months.

#Literature / Rivers in fiction: A unique genre of Bengali literature

With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.

Make protecting our rivers a top priority

The government must make the best use of the river route classification initiative.

As our rivers lay dying

Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.

Our rivers are being robbed

Why is the law to stop illegal sand extraction not enforced?

37,000 River Grabbers: NRCC decision to withhold names draws flak

The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.

Dried-up Teesta continues to haunt farmers

Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem

The sorry state of rivers in Bangladesh

There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.

WORLD RIVERS DAY / Can we reimagine rivers before it is too late?

It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.

September 6, 2024
September 6, 2024

Prepare, publish list of rivers within 2 months

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the environment and water resources ministries, yesterday instructed the Bangladesh Water Development Board, BIWTA, National River Conservation Commission, and Divisional Commissioners to finalise the total number of rivers in the country within two months.

February 19, 2024
February 19, 2024

Rivers in fiction: A unique genre of Bengali literature

With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.

February 16, 2024
February 16, 2024

Make protecting our rivers a top priority

The government must make the best use of the river route classification initiative.

February 1, 2024
February 1, 2024

As our rivers lay dying

Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.

September 24, 2023
September 24, 2023

Our rivers are being robbed

Why is the law to stop illegal sand extraction not enforced?

January 19, 2023
January 19, 2023

37,000 River Grabbers: NRCC decision to withhold names draws flak

The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.

January 7, 2023
January 7, 2023

Dried-up Teesta continues to haunt farmers

Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem

September 27, 2022
September 27, 2022

The sorry state of rivers in Bangladesh

There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.

September 25, 2022
September 25, 2022

Can we reimagine rivers before it is too late?

It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.

April 28, 2022
April 28, 2022

An invaluable resource on char dwellers of deltaic Bangladesh

In the contemporary discourse on Bangladesh, its cultural legacies have overtaken its identity as a land of six seasons or as a riverine country.