Pinaki Roy
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- Sep 27, 2026
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A valley buried in mud and grief (opens the original)
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He was standing beside a dilapidated building on the bank of the Trishuli river, watching journalists photograph and film what remained of Trishuli Bazar. The young man, around 25, wore torn, shabby clothes. His eyes were sunken, as though he had not slept properly for days. “My elder sister was lost from here on that day. Since then, I have been looking for her. I come here every day,” he said. “If you upload my video, maybe she will see it and know that I am looking for her.” He stared at the
Weighed down by heavy metals (opens the original)
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Surface water in and around industrial areas along the Turag and the Shitalakkhya contains high concentrations of four harmful heavy metals, including lead, which was detected at up to 45 times the safe limit set by the World Health Organization, according to a new study. Laboratory tests of water samples collected from industrial discharge points along the two rivers in Gazipur and Narayanganj also found excessive levels of iron, mercury and manganese. While lead and mercury are classified as h
‘Everything is gone’: Nepal’s thriving river town buried in mud and grief (opens the original)
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The muddy river runs through what was once a settled riverside neighbourhood in Devighat near the China-Nepal border. Its banks have been ripped open and are strewn with broken concrete, stones and debris. Heaps of mud line both sides of the road. Broken buildings stand amid the wreckage, giving the area the appearance of a war zone. The commercial centre of Devighat sits at the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in Nuwakot District, 60km northwest of Kathmandu. Today, the buildings here
Hilsa haul takes a nosedive (opens the original)
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Hilsa production is declining after a steady rise over two decades due to water pollution from three power plants located near the Hilsa Sanctuary, siltation of rivers and overfishing, raising concerns about the much-loved fish’s sustainability and affordability. “I am really worried about the hilsa population,” said Anisur Rahman, former director of the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), who has researched hilsa for many decades. In fiscal 2024-25, hilsa production stood at 5 lakh
Rivers erode five times the size of Dhaka in five decades (opens the original)
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Over the past five decades, the Jamuna and Ganges rivers, along with the Padma formed by their confluence, have eroded about 1,585sqkm of land, according to government data. That is more than five times the combined area of Dhaka’s two city corporations. Roughly 433sqkm of that land has returned with newly formed chars -- sandbars that rise and fall as rivers shift course, according to satellite analysis by the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), an organisation
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