Atrai River News Today

Only a decade ago, the Someshwari river in Netrakona attracted hundreds of locals, some wading in the water with their fishing nets, some bathing, others standing on the banks with fishing lines.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) has served a legal notice on 15 authorities concerned for failing to protect the Atrai river in Pabna from encroachment and pollution.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) has served a legal notice to 15 authorities concerned for failing to protect the Atrai river in Pabna from encroachment and pollution

We perceive law as something impersonal and removed from the individual, and forget that at its heart, the law is human and personal.

Pathetic state of Atrai River: The pathetic state of Atrai River shows how vulnerable our rivers are to greed and mismanagement

Atrai river dying: The Atrai river, which once flowed wide and strong through Santhia upazila in Pabna, is now barely recognisable

The Atrai riverbank in Natore’s Singra upazila is at risk of erosion because of alleged illegal sand-lifting by the local upazila parishad (UP) chairman.

Houses, roads, shops, bridges and culverts near Atrai river in Natore’s Singra upazila are at risk of being ruined, all because the local UP chairman has reportedly been lifting sand from the riverside for a hi-tech park that is being constructed in the upazila.

The Judicial Magistrate of Natore has taken up a suo-moto case after the publication of news in The Daily Star regarding the illegal extraction of sand from Atrai River in Singra of Natore.

Death toll from sinking of Karatoa boat rises to 55