Why has it not been done over the past five months?

Ensure justice and a fair probe into the seven-murder tragedy

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the environment and water resources ministries, yesterday instructed the Bangladesh Water Development Board, BIWTA, National River Conservation Commission, and Divisional Commissioners to finalise the total number of rivers in the country within two months.

With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.

The government must make the best use of the river route classification initiative.

Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.

Why is the law to stop illegal sand extraction not enforced?

The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.

Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem

There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.

It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.

In the contemporary discourse on Bangladesh, its cultural legacies have overtaken its identity as a land of six seasons or as a riverine country.

The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.