Three students of Dhanmondi Ideal College of Dhaka go missing after they went for a bath in Dhaleshwari river.

A survey report by Manikganj district administration revealed that a total of 29.60 acres of the Dhaleshwari River in the district have been encroached by land grabbers.

A case was filed against five people including a ruling Awami League leader under the Special Powers Act in connection with grabbing government land on the Dhaleshwari in Singair.

The pollution level in the Dhaleshwari has worsened ever since the Tannery Industrial Estate was set up near the river in Savar.

After the Buriganga, the tannery industry is now polluting the Dhaleshwari river, as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) for treating liquid waste and hazardous chemicals is yet to be fully operational.

A picture in the backpage of this paper's Friday issue says it all. Untreated waste from a tannery in Savar's tannery estate, being dumped into the Dhaleshwari.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities to operate 24 hours every day two modules of central effluent treatment plant (ETP)