Ensuring accountability of government agencies in-charge of conserving rivers, empowering National River Conservation Commission (NRCC), enhancing the institutional capacity, and executing concerned laws with political commitment are some of the essential factors to save the country’s rivers, speakers in a roundtable discussion have said.

National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) Chairman Dr Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury today said that all rivers surrounding the capital will be pollution-free before the next birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Twenty-three tanneries that are causing high levels of pollution are set to be shut down, a parliamentary body said yesterday.

The parliamentary standing committee on the environment ministry today asked the monitoring and enforcement wing of the Department of Environment (DoE) to take necessary measures to shut down the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate for the failure of its joint management committee to comply with the environment standards.

A cultural show on the country’s rivers was held at Mymensingh Zila Shilpakala Academy auditorium on Sunday evening.

The level of pollutants in the Buriganga water samples taken from some dyeing factory effluent release points is much higher than standard levels, found a study.

The water quality of the Buriganga continues to be poor even though it has been almost five years since the tanneries from the capital’s Hazaribagh area were relocated to an estate in Hemayetpur of Savar.  

Two major riverbanks on the capital’s outskirts remain at the mercy of illegal encroachers, and the only action the government has taken over the last decade is preparing lists of the grabbers,  without taking any action against them.

The Department of Environment (DoE) today fined a dyeing factory in Gazipur Tk one lakh for not properly setting up an Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP).

Fish worth around Tk 15 lakh have died due to dumping of waste of a cattle haat into ‘Sagardighi’ in Sreemangal Municipality of Moulvibazar. The dead fish mostly rohu and pangas weighing 2-4 kg were seen floating on the waterbody when the report was filed on Saturday.

Fish were dying in a pond as waste of sacrificial animals from a nearby cattle market polluted the water in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila.  

Damage to Sri Lanka’s marine environment from a sinking chemical ship is worse than feared, officials said yesterday, as more dead turtles, dolphins and whales washed up on the island’s beaches.

Keeping provisions of tougher punishments for polluting environment, the Mongla Port Authority Bill-2021 was placed in parliament yesterday.

The High Court yesterday asked Dhaka Wasa to submit a report on what has been done to implement a 2011 order to stop dumping sewage in the Buriganga river.

A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader of Dhaka University was critically injured in an attack by some leaders and activists of Bangladesh

An undetermined amount of palm oil spilled into the Karnaphuli river yesterday after a tanker's anchor got entangled with another's

Students from 14 secondary schools yesterday urged the government to save the river Bangshi in Savar from grabbing

During a sudden inspection of some union parishad land offices in Sadar and Kaliakoir upazilas of the district, State Minister for Land

Law enforces in a drive arrested two forest robbers from Arpangachhiya area in Shyamnagar upazila of the district on Saturday. Identity of

A mobile court yesterday fined a foreign vessel Tk 60,000 for polluting the river Karnaphuli as it was spilling oil at Chittagong Port.