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Other major tributaries of the Meghna include the Dhaleshwari, the Gumti, and the Feni. The Meghna empties into the Bay of Bengal in Bhola District via four principal mouths, named Tetulia (Ilsha), Shahbazpur, Hatia, and Bamni. Boat in Meghna River. The Meghna is the widest river that flows completely inside the boundaries of Bangladesh. At a ...
The 1986 Bangladesh MV Shamia ferry incident refers to one of the worst maritime disasters in human history [2] that occurred on 25 May 1986 on the Meghna River in Bangladesh, killing 600 passengers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The incident occurred when the overloaded MV Shamia , a two-decker merchant ship ferry, sank while carrying about 1,000 - 1,500 people ...
The 1998 Bangladesh flood occurred during the severe monsoon season, which began in July and continued until September. Heavy rainfall in the upstream catchment areas of the Ganges , Brahmaputra , and Meghna River caused water levels in these rivers to rise rapidly, resulting in widespread flooding across the country.
A map showing the major rivers in Bangladesh. River Padma in Rainy Season River Meghna as viewed from a bridge Ganges and Brahmaputra. Bangladesh is a riverine country. According to Bangladesh Water development board (BWDB) [1] about 907 rivers currently flow in Bangladesh (during summer and winter), although the numbers stated in some sources are ambiguous.
On 1 May 2000, two ferries capsized during a severe weather in Meghna river that subsequently killed 73 people and 100 went missing. [7] In December 2000, a ferry with 400 passengers sank in Meghna river and subsequently killed 158 people. On 29 November 2001, a ferry with 130 passengers sank in Tentulia river, however, the actual toll is not ...
The Surma-Meghna River System is a river complex in the Indian Subcontinent, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest on earth. [ citation needed ] It rises in the Manipur Hills of northeast India as the Barak River and flows west becoming the Surma River and then flows south as the Meghna River , a total of 946 kilometres (588 ...
The Surma (Bengali: সুরমা নদী, romanized: Śurmā nôdī, Sylheti: ꠍꠥꠞꠝꠣ ꠉꠣꠋ, romanized: Surma gaṅ) is a major river in Bangladesh, part of the Surma-Meghna River System. It starts when the Barak River from northeast India divides at the Bangladesh border into the Surma and the Kushiyara rivers.
The Joint River Commission was a bilateral working group established by India and Bangladesh in the Indo-Bangla Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace that was signed on March 19, 1972, and came into being in November 1972. As per the treaty, the two nations established the commission to work for the common interests and sharing of water ...