Ferry terminal No. 7 at Daulatdia in Rajbari has been temporarily closed due to a navigability crisis in the Padma River, ...

STEEPED in vibrancy and antiquity, these bold images document the Padma, a major river flowing through Bangladesh that makes up the last leg of the journey of the river Ganges. They are taken from The ...

Nine bodies were retrieved from a river in central Bangladesh on Wednesday, said Harun-ur Rashid, a regional police official, bringing to 79 the number of people known to have died when a ferry ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday celebrated the opening of the country’s longest bridge, which took eight years to build amid setbacks involving political ...

DHAKA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A new bridge to be built over the River Padma (Ganges) will boost Bangladesh's economy by over a full percentage point, the Asian Development Bank's South Asia Department ...

Hilsa fish from the Padma River in Bangladesh is heralded as a great delicacy of supreme quality, especially in the Indian state of West Bengal. Around September and October every year, the state’s ...

Mamtaj begum has lost count of the hours she has spent waiting for a ferry on the banks of Bangladesh’s Padma River. Travelling from her hometown of Faridpur to Dhaka, the capital, and back can take ...

Plans by China and India to construct hydropower dams on a major Himalayan river raise the prospect of deadly environmental and humanitarian catastrophes for millions of people living downstream, ...

DHAKA, May 3 (Reuters) - At least 26 people died and several were missing after an overcrowded speedboat collided with a sand-laden bulk carrier and sank on Bangladesh's giant Padma River on Monday, ...

An overcrowded speedboat collided with a sand-laden bulk carrier and sank in the Padma River, the police said. By Reuters DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least 26 people died and several others were missing on ...