The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.

Habiganj authorities must take urgent steps to save Khowai River

The government is determined to protect the rivers from encroachment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

Sounding a note of warning against the grabbing of city’s river banks, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says all illegal occupants of the river banks will be brought to justice.