Buriganga

Buriganga
Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury

Interview: Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury 'River pollution has made Dhaka an ecologically dead city'

As the guardian agency of all of Bangladesh's rivers and wetlands, the National River Protection Commission is always alert about the encroachment, pollution and navigability of these rivers and ...

BIWTA conducts drive to evict illegal structures along Buriganga river in Badamtali area in Old Dhaka on 22 November

Re-excavation of Buriganga old channel likely to start in February: Taposh

DSCC mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has said they are expecting that the re-excavation work of the old channel of Buriganga will begin in February

Buriganga river

Buriganga boat capsize Bodies of mother, daughter recovered, two still missing

A boat—carrying 10 passengers—has capsized in Buriganga river on Monday morning after being hit by a bulkhead at Hujurgat area of Kamrangirchar in the capital

Liquid waste is dumped into Karnaphuli river in Fisheryghat area of Chattogram on 25 September 2021.

Public health threatened 'Toxic river water enters groundwater'

Along with the advancement of economy, the country is also seeing rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. But there is little being done to protect the environment and manage waste

Editorial

Circular waterbus service a glaring example of failure and inefficiency

The government lunched circular waterbus services in Buriganga with much enthusiasm in 2004 . In a sense this project is almost dead. Eleven out of 12 waterbuses lie idle and one carries passenger ...

Plastic bags floatin the Buriganga river in Dhaka on 21 January 2020.

Dhaka four rivers: No effective measures to stop pollution

Water quality of the Dhaka rivers is much lower than the standard to support aquatic lives

Supreme Court of Bangladesh

Evict 74 illegal establishments from Buriganga channel: HC

The High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to evict 74 illegal establishments from the Buriganga old channel (Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh areas in the capital).

BIWTA’s Buriganga drive: 51 illegal establishments evicted

BIWTA’s Buriganga drive: 51 illegal establishments evicted

BIWTA evicted 51 illegal establishments from the bank of Buirganga river in Dhaka's Swari Ghat to Mitford Balur Ghat area on Thursday.

MP Aslamul Haque, AL MP of Dhaka-14, arrives at the banks of Buriganga with his men, to obstruct BIWTA's eviction drive

Lawmaker's river encroachment Eviction notice issued, not implemented

Despite eviction orders from the shipping ministry, no measures have been taken to remove MP Aslamul Haque's illegal structures on the banks of Buriganga and Turag

BIWTA has wrongly positioned boundary pillars while demarcating the rivers around Dhaka. This picture is taken at the bank of Turag river in Mirpur

Buriganga and Turag River boundary pillars wrongly positioned

Large parts of the rivers Buriganga and Turag are on the brink of being occupied because BIWTA has wrongly positioned boundary pillars while demarcating the river boundaries around Dhaka

BIWTA carries out an eviction drive on banks of Buriganga river on Sunday

BIWTA demolishes signboard on Buriganga land grabbed by Haji Salim’s son

BIWTA carried out an eviction drive on Sunday, removing illegal structures along the banks of the river Buriganga at Modhyer Char Kheyaghat area of Keraniganj

Unauthorised structures along Buriganga river

Remove illegal structures on Buriganga, punish encroachers

BIWTA had carried out several drives in the past to remove illegal structures along the rivers, but the influential encroachers remain undeterred, using loopholes in the law and their muscle to ...

Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim erected a construction grabbing land of Buriganga river in Old Dhaka’s Showari Ghat area. The structure has been demolished recently

Haji Salim knocks down illegal structure on encroached land

Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim erected a construction grabbing land of Buriganga river in Old Dhaka’s Showari Ghat area. The land was grabbed by erecting signboard of Madina water tank, a business of ...

Plastic bags floatin the Buriganga river in Dhaka on 21 January 2020.

Plastic pollution in Dhaka 30,000 tonnes of plastic in 4 rivers

A Waste Concern survey reports that 92 per cent of masks and gloves used by people are dumped into drains, canals and lakes, and end up in the rivers.

HC hands over life time imprisonment to three convicted over Commorade Golam Rabbani murder case. File photo

WASA MD not implementing 2011 order on Buriganga pollution: HC

The High Court on Monday asked the managing director of Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Taksim A Khan to implement its 2011 order to take steps to prevent the pollution of the Buriganga ...

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