Bangladesh is well located. It borders India and has three major ports in the Bay of Bengal. It also is part of the Asian Highway network, which connects 32 Asian countries to Europe. In short, ...

River erosion in Murshidabad’s Taranagar has erased homes and identities, leaving migrant families stranded and fearful of ...

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 ...

Authorities in Bangladesh investigating the sinking of a ferry with nearly 250 people on board have lodged murder charges against the owner and five others, including the captain, taking an ...

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 ...

Mega-dams planned by China and India on the Brahmaputra and other Himalayan rivers threaten a humanitarian and environmental ...

DHAKA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A new bridge to be built over the River Padma (Ganges) will boost Bangladesh's economy by over a full percentage point, the Asian Development Bank's South Asia Department ...

At six in the morning, Rajesh, a fisherman on the banks of the Padma River in Bangladesh, puts away his nets. In the past, he had to make a seven-hour ferry detour to transport his fish to a market 30 ...

Backing from the Asian Development Bank will help a 50 MW project get off the ground – and onto the water – in Chittagong, and a developer has been lined up to install solar on a stretch of the Padma ...

The Bangladeshi government Wednesday signed a deal with a Bangladesh-Malaysia joint venture to construct 11 km approach road linked up with the country's proposed longest Padma bridge. Bangladesh's ...

A mobile court in Louhajang, Munshiganj, sentenced 15 people to varying terms of imprisonment for illegally catching mother ...