No dredging initiatives in the past 59 years have been taken to ensure the navigability of the country's largest artificial lake, Kaptai Lake, in Rangamati. It is slowly losing its navigability as ...

Power generation at Bangladesh’s only hydropower facility, the Karnaphuli Hydropower Plant in Kaptai, has dropped sharply to ...

Kaptai Lake in Rangamati is known for its beauty and the tourism surrounding it. But the lake dries up every year during the dry season and local farmers who depend on the lake are taking advantage of ...

Persistent rain has increased the water level of Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake to near its capacity, driving the hydropower production at the lake. ATM Abduzzaher, the manager of the power plant, said that ...

Picturesque Kaptai Lake, the country's lone manmade lake in Rangamati hill district, is gradually becoming silted due to deposit of soil because of erosion of hillocks and dumping of garbage. Besides ...

The Kaptai hydroelectric plant’s capacity to release water has drastically decreased, making it unable to keep saltwater from entering the Halda river upstream, which supplies water to Chattogram City ...

Deep in the hills of Rangamati, Bangladesh, Kaptai Lake stretches like an endless maze of shimmering blue — hiding stories beneath its calm waters.

, July 30 -- Rangamati district administration has restricted the movement of tourists on Kaptai Lake hanging bridge in Rangamati as it went under water following the rise in water level in the lake ...

Can we imagine the scenario of a huge lake gradually drying and dying an unnatural death? It may not be very far off when the picturesque lake of Kaptai might have to embrace this atrocious fate. It ...

The royal palace of the Chakma dynasty that ruled Chittagong hill tracts, now in Bangladesh, has resurfaced on the Kaptai lake after its submersion nearly 50 years ago. HT Image Barrister Devashish ...