SOLUTION: Venkaiah Naidu, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, campaigning for the party

Industries got a whacking yesterday as experts and environmentalists maintained that rivers around Dhaka are getting polluted wholesale by industrial waste. Even industries with effluent treatment plants do not run those facilities.

Some of the developing world's largest rivers including Ganges in South Asia are drying up because of climate change.

Researchers from the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) said this after analysing data combined with computer models to assess river flows across the world.

KOLKATA

After the state government agencies and civic bodies failed to prevent pollution in the Ganga, the Centre has issued a circular announcing the formation of a Ganga River Conservation Authority to be headed by the chief minister. The committee will look after the conservation of the river.

By Suzanne Goldenberg
Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganga, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways has warned.

Washington: The flow of water in the world

Rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Affected rivers include the Yellow River in northern China, the Ganges in India, the Niger in West Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States.