Following media reports, the district administration conducted a special joint operation on Saturday afternoon in Faridpur’s Padma River North Channel, seizing and destroying 30,000 meters of fishing ...

At least 76 fishermen were held in Chandpur and Munshiganj districts on Tuesday and Wednesday for catching ilish defying law.

Authorities in Rajbari destroyed illegal fishing nets worth over 3.5 crore taka in the past two weeks and imposed various prison terms and fines on around 130 fishermen for violating government bans ...

STEEPED in vibrancy and antiquity, these bold images document the Padma, a major river flowing through Bangladesh that makes up the last leg of the journey of the river Ganges. They are taken from The ...

The Padma River is eating away at villages along the Bangladesh-India border, as erosion worsens each day in four unions of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj. Hundreds of homes and thousands of bighas of ...

While human settlements have originated on the banks of rivers, the landscape of Bangladesh is a vast graveyard of cities and ...

Sukumar Ghosh of Radhakrishnapur village in Lalgola took shelter with 12 family members at Sekalipur High School ...

In the char areas along the Padma river, horse carts remain the primary mode for transporting goods and motorbikes serve as the only reliable means of travel for residents, keeping life and the local ...

Hundreds of families have lost their homes and farmland due to the severe erosion of the Padma River in Manikganj’s Harirampur Upazila, leaving them destitute. Since June this year, in addition to ...

In the swamplands along Bangladesh’s mighty Padma River, snakes slithering through villages have become an unrelenting menace ...

Bangladesh has seen nearly 15,000 snakebite admissions in 2025, with 84 deaths reported so far. Read more at straitstimes.com ...