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After a month and half of staying closed following inundation, the iconic hanging bridge on Kaptai Lake, known as a “symbol of Rangamati”, has opened to tourists and visitors. The local ...
The hanging bridge over Kaptai Lake in Rangamati is inundated with rise of water level in the lake, compelling the authorities to suspend movement of people on the bridge.
The Rangamati district administration has imposed a restriction on all kinds of boats in Kaptai Lake until further notice. It issued a warning notice signed by Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Mosharraf ...
At a discussion on Tuesday (27 August), titled “Proper Water Management, A Tool to Address the Climate Crisis,” experts proposed a nationwide “Water Grid,” modelled after the electricity grid, to ...
Four people, including a woman, have died in separate lightining strikes incidents in Langadu Upazila of Rangamati. The incidents took place at Kaptai Lake and Atarakchara of the Upazila on ...
, Aug. 3 -- Fishing in Kaptai Lake resumed on Saturday midnight after the end of a three-month restriction on fishing by the local administration to ensure the natural reproduction of craps fish.
Rangamati's 700-square-metre Kaptai Lake once teemed with fish but for many years naturally occurring fish stocks have been in decline. For more than a decade researchers thought this was because ...
Separately, the Bangladeshi government is working on setting up a 50 MW floating solar power plant on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district. Currently, the country's renewables capacity stands at 790 MW.