Mitu Sana, a homemaker from Gunari village at Khulna’s Dakop upazila, has to go to the Union Parishad pond -- far from her home -- to fetch drinking water.

Even though life under the sea remains a mystery for many, from time to time, there are some noteworthy breakthroughs.

Once a 4km long waterbody flowing through Khulna city, today the Bastuhara canal is headed towards virtual extinction, thanks to years of indiscriminate garbage dumping and illegal occupation.

Flouting rules, a private company is constructing a road on the Teesta river bed in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, posing a risk of severe floods and river erosion upstream.

A long line of buildings are marked with a red cross at Bonorupa housing society in Bonpara municipality area in Natore’s Boraigram upazila.

The Bangladesh Water Development Board yesterday forecast a possible flood due to the swelling of the Teesta caused by heavy rainfall in upstream India.

After the Jamuna river eroded the banks on which his ancestral home stood in Shahzadpur upazila’s Koizuri village a few years ago, Md Shawkat Ali shifted his residence further inland into Koizuri union.

The crisis of pure drinking water is deepening in Khulna division as the underground water level has also gone down in five previously unaffected districts, say experts.

International Farakka Committee (IFC), in a statement, recently expressed hope that during the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh the two countries will, in light of mutual friendship, take effective steps for basin-wide management of common rivers by keeping them alive from their source to sea.

Three people, including two of a family, were killed and two others injured as a picnic bus hit them while they were

Bangladesh Nodi Bachao Andolon formed several human chains beside the Turag river yesterday to call for saving the rivers of Dhaka from

Police arrested five people in Parsaoil area under Singra upazila of the district on Sunday night on charge of killing freedom fighter Nani

Residents of some parts of the capital have been facing a drinking water crisis for the last several years. The water they are supplied with has a bad odour.

Alleged robber beaten to death by angry mob during an incident of robbery in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.

Five persons include three of a family are killed and 20 injured as two buses collide in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.

A man, who was burnt in an arson attack in Magura, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital this morning.