Arun Bikash Dey

Medical wastes from different hospitals and diagnostic centres across Chattogram city are being routinely collected and disposed of without proper segregation, raising serious public health risks, including the spread of infectious diseases.

With the winter chill biting hard, Chattogram’s footpaths have transformed into bustling hubs for winter commerce.

Affordable sweaters and blankets draw crowds to street stalls

Gas supply suspended after line inadvertently severed during excavation work

A series of arson attacks on four houses belonging to minority communities in three areas of Raozan in Chattogram in five days has spread fear among residents of the upazila.

Walking on footpaths in the port city has become increasingly dangerous as widespread illegal occupation and stalled development works force pedestrians onto busy roads, exposing them to serious risks.

The body of a dead dolphin, weighing 73.3kg and measuring 196cm, was recovered by Naval Police yesterday morning after it was found floating in the Halda river, Chattogram’s natural fish breeding ground, in the Barighona area of Hathazari upazila.

Open garbage sheds and bins along busy thoroughfares in Chattogram city have remained a persistent public nuisance for years, despite the Chattogram City Corporation’s door-to-door waste collection initiative launched nearly eight years ago.

The residence of Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, a historic British-era landmark in Chattogram’s Rahmatganj area, now lies in neglect.

In Chattogram city, medical emergencies often force families into desperate searches for blood for life-saving transfusions.

The 94-year-old Munshi Pukur in the Shulak Bahor area of Chattogram city is facing an imminent threat of occupation due to prolonged negligence by the authorities, despite a High Court order mandating its conservation.

Lack of awareness and social stigma continue to keep many patients from seeking early screening and treatment for HIV/AIDS, making the situation vulnerable in Chattogram, experts have warned.

Stock of government-allocated rabies vaccine is running out across Chattogram.

City corporation forms 4-member committee to reduce gridlock, develop modern transport network

Experts said at least 70 percent of the port city's multi-storey buildings are at risk of collapse in the event of a major earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher.

Chattogram war cemetery stands as a place of reflection, history

Crucial breast cancer screening at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has remained unavailable for nearly three years after the hospital’s lone mammography machine went out of order in 2022.

Shubhechcha Ghosh, from the Askar Dighir Par area of Chattogram city, brought her five-year-old son, who had a fever and cough, to a doctor, who prescribed a course of antibiotics after examination. The worried mother said her child had caught a cold even though winter had not yet set in.

Parents crowd hospitals as bronchiolitis and pneumonia spread among children

Conflict stems from Mayor Shahadat's refusal to accept CEO’s joining report