Experts say that due to the pollution, oxygen levels in most parts of the river have dropped to the point where aquatic life ...

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs ...

Bangladesh is a country dependent ... part in this with manufacturers still dispensing toxic wastewater from the textile dyeing process - into rivers. But pressure from buyers is having a positive ...

The programme, held today at the mangrove forest of Mongla Government College, called for an immediate ban on the use of ...

Officials initially instructed that the ship be towed back to Bangladesh before ... discharged fly ash into the river — using machines — to dilute the toxic material with water and release ...

A Bangladeshi vessel, MV Sea World, struck a sandbar and began sinking near Ghoramara island, leading to the illegal discharge of toxic fly ash into the Muriganga river. This incident has raised ...