Buriganga River

Wasa MD not executing directives to close sewerage lines to Buriganga: HC

The High Court today observed that the managing director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is voluntarily not implementing a 2011 directive asking it to seal off drains and sewerage lines linked to Buriganga River.
(Update) Launch capsize in Buriganga: 32 bodies recovered so far

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 30 people after a launch capsized in Buriganga river at Dhaka's Shyambazar.
Set up ETPs to stop dumping wastes into Buriganga: HC

High Court has directed owners of seven factories for setting up separate effluent treatment plants (ETPs) in order to stop dumping their wastes into the Buriganga river and to save it from pollution.
Bodies of 2 kids recovered from Buriganga river

Two children die as a boat capsizes in the Buriganga river in Dhaka’s Sadarghat area.
Disasters waiting to happen

A picture published by this newspaper yesterday of rickety three-storey buildings on the banks of the Buriganga river in the capital exemplifies another disaster in the making.
Eviction drive on to reclaim river banks

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday knocked down 252 illegal structures, including 10 multi-storey buildings, at the capital's Kamrangirchar.
Encroachment: Eviction along Buriganga

For the fourth day, authorities are pulling down illegal establishments along the vein of Dhaka – the Buriganga River – to free its land from encroachment.
3 of a family die in Buriganga boat capsize

The fire service yesterday recovered bodies of four members of a family who went missing after a boat capsized in the Buriganga on Friday night.
3 bodies found in Buriganga

Police recovered the bodies of three unidentified men from the river Buriganga in Dhaka's Keraniganj and Kamrangirchar areas in the last two days.
Illegal dockyards along Buriganga demolished

An illegal dockyard along the Buriganga River in Mirerbagh, Dakshin Keraniganj, is bulldozed to the ground by the authorities.
Dhaleshwari going the Buriganga way?

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.
Missing boy's body found in Buriganga

The decomposed body of a class-X student was found floating in the Buriganga river in the capital's Postogola on Thursday evening, three days after he had gone missing.
Buriganga waterbus service

The dysfunctional state of the waterbuses of Buriganga is an example of how bad management and lack of commitment can ruin a good initiative.
GRABBERS feast on buriganga

The Buriganga is getting narrower every year as dumping of waste along the river banks between Sadarghat and Rayerbazar by
River polluters warned

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.
Have ETP, or shut down, minister tells factories

In a move to save the major rivers around Dhaka, the government today made Effluent Treatment Plants a mandatory factor for the factories.
[WATCH NOW] Chhoto Katra: You won’t see it for long

Almost lost amid negligence and encroachment, it is hard to believe, Chhoto Katra was one of the places from where Mughal Subedar Shaista Khan ruled Bengal. Chhoto Katra was built in 1670 by Shaista Khan on the bank of the Buriganga.
Watch Now: Rare books in ruins at Northbrook Hall

If you walk down the Farashganj road near the banks of the Buriganga river, you will come across the Northbrook Hall library. From the outside it would look like an abandoned building. But inside, it has hundreds of rare books—published in the nineteenth century—some of which may not be available elsewhere in the world.
BIWTA recreation centre on Buriganga to go

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court verdict that directed the government to demolish and remove the recreation centre from Buriganga river at Kamrangirchar area in Dhaka.
Legal notice served to stop waste dumping into Buriganga

A rights group sends legal notice to government authorities concerned, asking them to remove all wastes from the south side bank of Buriganga River in a week and to take effective steps to stop dumping wastes there.
HC’s contempt rule against 10 tannery owners

The High Court issued a contempt rule against 10 tannery owners over charges of creating bars to implement a previous judgment regarding salvation of Buriganga river.
Vehicular movement resumes on Buriganga bridge

Vehicular movement on the first Buriganga bridge at Keraniganj resumes after six and a half hours of blockade by transport workers protesting “toll hike”.
Buriganga boat capsize death toll reaches 16

Five more bodies are recovered from the Buriganga river, raising the death toll to 16 from the trawler capsize that sank in the river in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj.
8 killed in Narayanganj trawler capsize

At least eight people including an old woman drown as a trawler carrying over 60 passengers sink in the Buriganga River in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj this afternoon.