Hidadgari, a remote village on the banks of the Jamuna River in Char Pakerdah union of Madarganj upazila in Jamalpur, is under constant threat of river erosion and flooding. Home to around 500 ...

The Jamuna River has eroded an area of one and a half square kilometres in Baghutia Union's Binain to Char Salimabad in the past few weeks. However, the Bangladesh Water Development Board is yet to ...

With each passing year, Bangladesh's land gradually crumbles and washes away due to river erosion. According to researchers, the total amount of land eroded by the Ganges, Jamuna, Padma ...

In Bangladesh, river erosion tends to occur in September, October and November, according to Malik. CEGIS marked 17 areas this season at higher risk than other areas of being devoured by the major ...

Meanwhile, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a proposal to award a contract to Bangladesh Navy-run Khulna Shipyard to protect the Zajira and Naria upazilas in Shariatpur from ...

A historic Catholic Church and hundreds of ethnic and Bengali villagers in northeast Bangladesh face an existential crisis if ongoing erosion of a major river and unplanned sand extraction are not ...

“My relatives’ homes are now under water too.” Erosion has long been a part of life in Bangladesh, which sits on a massive river delta. The Padma’s rushing waters constantly shift and ...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a recent report that a million people are affected by river bank erosion each year in Bangladesh. Of those, 500,000 are ...

Many of the displacements in Bangladesh are owing to natural disasters such as flooding, river erosion, cyclones, and impacts of sea-level rise in coastal areas. Between 2008 and 2014, as per ...

KURIGRAM, BANGLADESH: Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family ...

Increasingly severe flooding in Bangladesh threatens the homes and livelihoods of some 10 million people who live on river islands known as chars. The rate of erosion of these chars has increased ...

This causes frequent floods and severe erosion of the river bank during ... review the protection and management of the Teesta River in Bangladesh, he had said. Meanwhile, on bilateral talks ...