Ensure justice and a fair probe into the seven-murder tragedy
The Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court verdict that allowed Md Salim Khan, a local Awami League leader, to extract sand from the Meghna river in Chandpur.
Three labourers have gone missing after a sand-laden bulkhead was hit by a launch and capsized in the River Meghna near Gajaria of Munshiganj.
A launch carrying around 1,000 passengers remains stuck in a shoal in Meghna river near Barishal’s Mehendiganj upazila early today, reports Bangla Daily Prothom Alo.
Water of the Meghna river may become too polluted to be treated in the next five years if immediate actions are not taken to save it from pollution, says an Asian Development Bank report.
The National River Conservation Commission has warned that it would take legal actions against at least a dozen government authorities for their inaction to free the Meghna from grabbers if they do not act within seven days.
In an onslaught on the Meghna, a private ship-building company is constructing its shipyard’s slipways into the river at Meghnaghat in Sonargaon, but the river custodians are doing little to stop it.
Nothing seems to scare away the river grabbers. Amid impassioned calls from the judiciary, environmentalists and the media to save the country's last surviving rivers, a private company is building two slipways in the Meghna river in Munshiganj.
A Munshiganj court places Zakir Dewan, owner of the trawler that capsized in Meghna River with 35 workers on Tuesday, on one day remand in connection with a case in this regard.
The Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for passing an order on a petition seeking necessary order upon authorities concerned to stop sand- and earth-filling in farmlands and wetlands around the Meghna River in Narayanganj's Sonargaon upazila.
A tanker capsized in Meghna, spilling unrefined petroleum in the river but no steps have been taken so far to prevent the oil from spreading any further.
The High Court issues status quo on earth filling and construction of structures in Meghna and Menikhali rivers in Sonargaon area in Narayanganj.
A gang of 10 to 12 armed robbers disguised as police intercepted a boat and proceeded to loot the passengers of their cash, three cell phones and other goods.
Four fishermen drowned as a boat capsized in the Meghna due to rough weather in Noakhali's Hatia upazila early yesterday.
The High Court upholds a lower court verdict that ordered the government to give Tk 17.11 crore in compensation to the victim families of a 2003 launch capsize in the Meghna river.
The death toll from Thursday’s trawler capsize in the Meghna River rises to 10 as six more bodies of women are recovered from the river.
Police recover the bodies of three more people including a child and a woman, raising death toll to seven from a trawler capsize in the Meghna river in Chandpur.
Police recover the bodies of two children five days into their missing following a trawler capsize in the Meghna river in Chandpur.
After a day passed, search is still going strong for the nine missing victims who went down with a trawler that capsized in Chandpur’s Meghna river.
