India and Bangladesh on Thursday commenced talks on renewing the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, which is set to expire in ...

KURIGRAM, Bangladesh (Reuters) -On an overcast morning, Nurun Nabi loads bamboo poles and tin sheets onto a wooden boat. His home, built just a year ago on a fragile island in the Brahmaputra River, ...

Bangladesh’s election, Hasina’s presence in India and Dhaka’s signing of the UN water convention could complicate the 1996 ...

Our country is a riverine land. Rivers are deeply intertwined with the very formation of this land. Yet, even today, the definition of a river has not been finalised in Bangladesh.

In 2019, in response to a public interest petition by the advocacy group Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, the High Court Division of Bangladesh’s Supreme Court declared all rivers in the country ...

Discover what the interesting facts about the Brahmaputra River. Learn about its origin, tributaries, width, hydro power ...