Pinaki Roy

The series of six earthquakes that shook Myanmar yesterday, occurring along the Sagaing fault -- the country’s longest faultline -- served as a stark reminder of Dhaka’s earthquake vulnerability.

The project will be built on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which becomes the Brahmaputra in India and the Jamuna in Bangladesh.

Despite annual recharge every year, there is an overall declining trend in groundwater level due to over-extraction

At least 79 of the government-listed 1,156 rivers flowing through the country have dried up or are in the process of drying up in recent times, threatening livelihoods, agriculture, and local biodiversity, a recent study has revealed.

Over the past decade, nearly half of the country’s wild elephant population has been wiped out.

Under the deal, POWERCHINA will prepare a concept paper by December and conduct a feasibility study in 2026

Nineteen-year-old Sajjad Hossain had no alternative but to start building a new thatched home for his two sisters, mother and himself since their house was swept away by a flood four months ago in Pashchim Aloka village, situated on the banks of Muhuri river in Feni’s Parshuram upazila.

Having experienced two earthquakes in the span of a single week, an obvious question looms – are we taking this silent threat seriously enough?