Bangladesh is home to around 2,000 Ganga River dolphins and 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, found mostly in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. Both species, considered threatened on ...

New Delhi: Bankrupt Bangladesh, already grappling with a severe economic crisis, is now facing another major challenge. A study reveals that at least 79 rivers in the country have either dried up ...

This drops to 200-300 cusecs at times. At the 25th JRC meeting in 1983, India and Bangladesh agreed on an ad hoc arrangement under which Bangladesh was to receive 36 percent of the Teesta’s waters.