South Korean Envoy to Bangladesh Lee Jang-Keun pays a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at the Army Headquarters in the city on Monday. ISPR photo

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Lesser flow in major rivers About 54 rivers of the country have almost withered away due to unilateral withdrawal of water by neighbouring India since late seventies. Most important of them are the Padma, the Jamuna, the Karotoya, the Baral, the Arial Khna, the Atrai, the Chitra, the Dakatia, the Madhumati and the Garai.The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta dominates larger part of Bangladesh’s geography, but the word ‘Ganges’ does not denote that part of the river flowing through Bangladesh, but it is...

22 Apr 2016, 12:00 am