Arun Bikash Dey

With the by-polls for Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon-Panchlaish-Bayezid) coming closer, the candidates are busy campaigning from afternoon to midnight.

With the heat wave blowing all over the country and putting people’s lives in discomfort and misery, frequent load-shedding has doubled down on the sufferings of Chattogram’s residents.

The sounds of drums and cheers will soon fill the air of Chattogram as the 114th edition of the historic Jabbarer Boli Khela wrestling competition is set to take place at the Laldighi Maidan.

With Eid-ul-Fitr right around the corner, shopping at footpaths in Chatogram city is gaining momentum and small roadside vendors are passing a busy time now.

People have been suffering for more than two months due to the delay in completing construction work of a culvert over a canal in Muradpur of Chattogram city.

After a brutal attack on a journalist in Chandanaish upazila of Chattogram, the police have been unable to arrest the main accused even after four days of the incident.

Chattogram city dwellers have to drink bottled-water as the salinity of Chattogram Wasa’s water has increased almost 30 times than it was a month ago.

In May 1971,  Abani Mohan Dutta, a professor of the Department of Philosophy of the then Chittagong College, was picked up by the Pakistan army from the college quarter. His crime was that he was a progressive-minded teacher, who supported the Liberation War of Bangladesh, said his then student  Dr Shafiqul Alam.

Another accident occurred at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday, claiming one life. But such accidents, and the injuries and deaths that accompany them, are nothing new there.

The explosion at Sheema oxygen Plant in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila has left the families of the victims grief-stricken and in deep shock. At the Chattogram Medical College and Hospital, where many of the injured were taken for treatment, the atmosphere is somber as family members wait anxiously for news of their loved ones.

Chattogram’s Teribazar is the most sought after destination for people from all walks of life for reasonably priced full-sized cloth. 

Although student politics is officially banned on Chattogram Medical College (CMC) campus and its dormitories, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has been carrying out its activities as authorities continue to turn a blind eye, alleged students.

Most of the major pledges Chattogram City Corporation Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury had made in his election manifesto have not been fulfilled even two years after he took office.

The 21-day long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela Chattogram 2023 kicked off at the MA Aziz Stadium Gymnasium premises of Chattogram  on Wednesday.

After over eight and a half months of the council, the partial committee for Chattogram north district unit Jubo League (JL) was announced on Monday, with SM Rashedul Alam as president and Md Shahjahan as general secretary.

Putting their lives at risk, pedestrians in different intersections of Chattogram city are compelled to cross the road by dodging speedy traffic, as most of these points do not have foot-over bridges.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) will designate 115 specific spots in the port city where people can put up posters for a fee.

The work for renovation project of Jatishangha Park in the port city is finally going to start in this month. One of the very few parks in the port city with public access, the 59-year-old Jatishangha Park, located in Panchlaish Residential Area was left in a sorry state for over six years.

Chattogram’s historic Laldighi Maidan, which had remained closed due to renovation for almost three years, finally welcomed children back on Monday.

Shahnaj Akter, a resident of the port city’s Muradpur area, found it difficult to browse through warm clothes to pick the best match for her son as Zahur Hawkers’ Market was packed with buyers.