Serenity Meets Chaos Over Dhaka: Contrasting Aerial Imagery. Posted: April 24, 2025 | Last updated: ... From the colorful chaos of Old Dhaka’s streets to serene shots of the Buriganga River, ...

Aerial photos show ‘the human planet’—in all its beauty and pain. ... is a focal point of traffic on the heavily traveled Buriganga River. A city of more than 18 million, ...

Encroachers cut Buriganga’s length by 16km. A 16-kilometre stretch of the Buriganga has been lost to encroachment by real estate developers and locals, according to a study released yesterday.

Springing from the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is a burgeoning megacity. Already one of the biggest and most densely populated cities in the world, Dhaka is ...

Two decades ago Nurul Islam, 70, earned his living by fishing in the Buriganga river that flows southwest of the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka and was once its lifeline. Now, with hardly any fish to ...

Mostafizur Rahman, deputy director of the Department of Environment (DoE), said that during dry season, the Buriganga becomes uninhabitable, utterly devoid of oxygen and of all aquatic lifeforms. The ...

The government will have to plug the major sources of pollution of the river." Prof Rahman, who has long been monitoring the Buriganga water pollution, said: "Over 60,000 kgs of BOD is dumped into the ...

Buriganga River. Encroachers cut Buriganga’s length by 16km. A 16-kilometre stretch of the Buriganga has been lost to encroachment by real estate developers and locals, ...