Buriganga re-excavation project to go
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a project for recovering Buriganga River to keep the water flow running around the capital city.
Under the project, new Dhaleswari-Pungli-Bongshai-Turag-Buriganga System would be re-excavated involving Taka 1125.59 crore.
The approval came at the 32nd meeting of the ECNEC in the fiscal held at the NEC conference room in city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with Prime Minister and ECNEC Chairperson Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS.
Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal, after the meeting, briefed the newsmen about the 
Fishermen to turn dolphin saviours in Bangladesh
Akkas Ali is a fisherman from Dublar char, a remote island located off the coast in Bangladesh’s Bagerhat district. He has been fishing in the Bay of Bengal for almost 20 years and has been a witness to the slaughter of dolphins. Most of these deaths were accidental – the dolphins became entangled in the nets of fishermen, and died. In the last two years three dolphins were killed after being trapped in Akkas Ali’s own fishing nets.
At least five species of dolphins and several species of whales can be found between the coast of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, and the Bay of Bengal. The rivers of the mangrove forest are the habitat of Gangetic river dolphins and Irrawady dolphins.
According a 2010 joint survey conducted by the US-based Wildlife Conservation So...
India plans to ‘divert rivers’; Bangladesh cries foul
India is set to divert water from major rivers such as the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to regions in the country that are prone to severe drought, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti told BBC on Monday. However, Bangladesh’s water resources minister urged the Modi government to ensure the country gets its share of water.
Stating that the project on The Inter Linking of Rivers (ILR) has 30 planned links for water-transfer, Bharti said one link is set to kick off any time.
“Interlinking of rivers is our prime agenda and we have got the people’s support and I am determined to do it on the fast track,” Bharti told BBC.
“We are going ahead with five links [of the rivers] now and the first one, the Ken-Betwa link [in
Bangladesh struggling to balance energy and environment needs
In a bid to bolster the electricity generation capacity of the energy-poor nation, the government is looking to build several coal-fired plants in the coming years. But activists oppose them citing environmental risks.
Bildergalerie Bangladesch Sundarbans Mangrovenwälder
The plan to set up coal-fired power plants across the coastal areas of the South Asian country recently sparked a wave of protests. At least four demonstrators died and many were injured in the southeastern port city of Chittagong last month, when police opened fire at those protesting against the construction of a thermal power plant in the region.
Indian senior activists join hands to save Sunderbans
In yet another major initiative strengthening people-to-people cooperation between South Asian nations, people's movements in India joined hands with their Bangladesh counterparts to save the Sunderbans.
This was declared in Delhi by a delegation of 11 senior activists who took part in the Long March organized by National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and started from Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka on March 10 to Kathakhali Morh, Bagherhat district, Bangladesh – a distance of 250 kms from the capital.
Ashok Choudhury, and Roma Malik of All India Union of Forest Working People, Soumya Dutta,
March on March 10 against coal plant near Sundarbans
Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the country’s capital, Dhaka, to the world’s biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest.
The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests.
“No sensible person will deny that there are many alternative ways for electricity generation,” 
