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HC issues contempt rule over Karnaphuli river land lease

The High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against Chittogong Port Authority chairman SM Moniruzzaman, additional secretary Mohammad Habibur Rahman, and deputy manager Md Shihab Uddin for allegedly violating a 2016 court directive by leasing out a piece of land belonging to the Karnaphuli River...

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Defence of River Naf

THE Naf River is a natural marvel, both magnificent and strategic, forming a vital boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar’s Arakan State. As it runs from the fall of Khayaparir Tong to the...

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Trial run of trains on Jamuna rail bridge

Two trains ran on trial basis on the under-construction Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the River Jamuna for the first time on Tuesday...

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136 landless families fear losing homes to Payra port dev

The work to develop a road by the Payra Port Authority is threatening to evict 136 landless families, who made part of the embankment along Andharmanik River at Tiakhali of Patuakhali’s Kolapra their home two decades ago...

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Luxury guesthouse to be leased out

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority has planned to lease out a luxury guest house to international hotel management companies in a desperate bid to reduce the loss incurred from the operation of the newly built tunnel under the River Karnaphuli in Chattogram...

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Rickshaw driver held over JU student’s death

Jahangirnagar University’s security officials handed over a battery-run rickshaw driver to police on Monday, following allegations of reckless driving that caused the death of a first-year student on November 19...

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Drivers to stage demo in city today

Battery-run rickshaw drivers on Saturday announced to hold a sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the capital today for realising their demand to scrap the High Court’s November 19 order to stop plying of battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka city roads...

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Battery-run rickshaw drivers block city roads

Battery-run rickshaw drivers blocked several roads in the capital demanding access to the main roads of the city on Wednesday, a day after the High Court ordered a ban on battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka streets...

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Plastic floater of dredger catches fire

A fire broke out in the ‘foam type plastic floater’ of a dredger kept on the bank of the Jamuna River in front of the Dredger Beige office in the Aricha port area at ​​Shibalay upazila in Manikganj...

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Govt should implement tannery worker’s minimum wage early

THE relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh to Dhaka’s outskirts of Savar had been in discussions until the relocation was somewhat complete a few years ago, with some prickly issues such as pollution still rearing the head. The relocation project began in 2003 on a High Court order of 2001 to save the moribund River Buriganga. The tannery units...

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Hilsa protecting officials assaulted

Eight members of the fisheries department were injured in the early hours of Wednesday when they were attacked by a group during a hilsa conservation drive near Babur Char on the Padma River in Jazira upazila...

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No end in sight to river grab, pollution as yet

THE River Buriganga, the ecological lifeline of Dhaka, faces a slow death. The photograph that ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· published on October 30 shows unabated encroachment on the river land and the unchecked dumping of polythene bags and rubbish in the river at Islambagh in Dhaka. Untreated liquid industrial effluents discharged into the river indiscriminately has left...

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Body of one of 2 missing ASIs recovered

A body of an assistant sub-inspector was recovered one day after he went missing from the River Padma during an attack allegedly by some miscreants at Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia early Monday...

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6 injured as oil vessel fire on Dakatia River

At least six crew members were injured when a massive fire erupted on the oil tanker MV Sadia Enterprise in the Dakatia River of Chandpur, following an explosion in its engine room Sunday afternoon...

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22-day hilsa fishing ban in Bangladesh begins today

Prices of hilsa have shot up again in Chandpur markets as a 22-day ban on hilsa fishing was set to begin at midnight past Saturday, to ensure safe spawning in the freshwaters of the Padma and Meghna rivers...

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Sustainable management of transboundary rivers

BANGLADESH is facing severe floods and river erosion due to irregular upstream water releases from barrages and dams on transboundary rivers. At the same time, excessive water withdrawal during the dry season is disrupting river ecosystems, leading to devastating impacts on agriculture and local livelihoods...

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ECNEC approves rail-cum-road bridge construction project at Kalurghat

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council on Monday approved a Taka 11,560.77 crore new rail-cum-road bridge project over the River Karnaphuli at Kalurghat beside the existing old bridge to ensure smooth and uninterrupted communication system between Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar.

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3 die in tanker explosion on River Karnaphuli

Three people were burned to death as fire broke out following an explosion in a petroleum-carrying tanker, Banglar Jyoti, at Patenga on River Karnaphuli in Chattogram on Thursday morning...

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