Only two decades ago, people bathed in the Hyderabad canal in Tongi, Gazipur.

Opening of three new bridges on the Shitalakkhya, Meghna and Gumti rivers will reduce bottlenecks on Dhaka-Chittagong highway early next year.

Seventy-year-old Shah Jamal grew up on the bank of the Shitalakkhya witnessing countless events centring on the river. A ragpicker,

Shamsunnahar Nupur always tries to hide a framed photograph of her husband Jahangir.

Rescuers recover six bodies from a sunken sand-laden trawler which capsized after colliding with another trawler in Shitalakkhya of Narayanganj.

Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.

In a move to save the major rivers around Dhaka, the government today made Effluent Treatment Plants a mandatory factor for the factories.