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Arun Bikash Dey

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ICU at CMCH overwhelmed with measles patients

20 May 2026, 00:00 AM
A heavy, grief-stricken silence was witnessed outside the Paediatric Ward and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday afternoon.
20 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Chattogram shooting: 6 arrested as girl hit by stray bullet fights for life

12 May 2026, 19:25 PM
Police says murder linked to turf dispute
12 May 2026, 19:25 PM
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Ctg shooting: 11-year-old Reshmi battles for life with a bullet to head

9 May 2026, 21:47 PM
Medical board at CMCH decides against surgery
9 May 2026, 21:47 PM
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No room to walk on Ctg footpaths

9 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Footpaths across key commercial areas in Chattogram have become increasingly inaccessible, forcing pedestrians onto busy roads and raising serious safety concerns.
9 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Waterlogging returns to Chattogram

1 May 2026, 12:59 PM
Project delays and design flaws blamed as first heavy rains of the season inundates port city's low-lying areas
1 May 2026, 12:59 PM
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Dhaka, Ctg reel under heavy rains / Torrential rain submerges port city

30 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Torrential rain, triggered by a steep pressure gradient over the North Bay, submerged low-lying areas of Chattogram for the second consecutive day yesterday, causing immense suffering to residents.
30 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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Bagha Sharif continues supremacy in Jabbarer Boli Khela

25 April 2026, 21:30 PM
Bagha Sharif from Cumilla’s Homna clinched the title of the 117th edition of the historic Abdul Jabbar-er Bolikhela, defeating Rashed Boli from Cumilla Sadar in a gruelling 40-minute encounter at Laldighi Maidan on Saturday.
25 April 2026, 21:30 PM
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Garbage piles up as CCC’s centralised plan ‘stalls’

25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
The Chattogram City Corporation’s (CCC) move to centralise door-to-door waste collection has faltered, leaving large swathes of the port city grappling with uncollected garbage and a resurgence of unauthorised fee collection.
25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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Country’s first research centre to study rivers

The journey of Halda River Research Laboratory started on August 20, 2017 in two abandoned rooms at the Department of Zoology at Chittagong University (CU).
10 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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23.5mm rainfall submerges port city

Residents of Chattogram city, especially office-goers, had to endure flooded streets yesterday, on the first working day after Eid-ul-Fitr, following torrential rain in Chattogram city since morning.
5 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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23.5mm rainfall triggers waterlogging in Chattogram city streets

Office-goers had to endure flooded streets on the first working day after Eid-ul-Fitr holiday today (May 5, 2022)following torrential rain in Chattogram city since morning.
5 May 2022, 10:32 AM

Commuters forced to pay extra fare

Nahida Khanam, along with her seven-year-old son, came to a makeshift bus terminal at Karnaphuli Shah Amanat Bridge area in the port city on Wednesday afternoon. The plan was to go to her village home in Patiya upazila.
29 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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RHD cutting down 622 trees for road expansion

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the situation of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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RHD to cut down over 600 trees for road expansion in Ctg

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the scenario of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.
22 April 2022, 10:46 AM

‘It was to establish supremacy’

The two factions of Jubo League had clashed in Patiya, Chattogram on Tuesday to establish supremacy, said political leaders and locals.
21 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Port city in festive mood

With Eid-ul-Fitr inching closer, sales in different shopping malls and roadside markets in the port city are picking up.
19 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Childhood lost Child labour in transport sector rampant in port city

Fifteen-year-old Md Musa is one of the many child transport workers in Chattogram, employed as a helper of a human haulier on the Chawkbazar to Halishahar Baro Pool route.
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Where differences bow to brotherhood

Hundreds of fasting Muslims, sitting on the floors, waiting to break their fast with the call for evening prayer -- such has been the everyday scene at the port city’s Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque during the month of Ramadan for over a decade.
12 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Garbage from canal left on road for days

The pile of waste that the authorities had lifted from Chaktai canal has just been lying on the road at Chawkbazar Phooltola area for around a week, making locals and pedestrians suffer.
8 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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A 100-year-old inn lost in time

The story of Jagat Chandra Mahajaner Panthoshala starts around 100 years ago. Those were the times when locals mostly travelled on foot or boat.
5 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Mega-project brings mega miseries

Waterlogging on the port city’s Ujir Ali Shah Lane has made the lives of residents miserable for the last three months, as Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) temporarily blocked Chaktai canal to build a retaining wall.
1 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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VENOM: let there be cure

Venomous snakes. In boxes, inside a laboratory.
29 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘Till death do us part’

Two lovers. Between them stood the biggest obstacle imaginable -- death itself.
21 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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The end of a tragic love story

After struggling with cancer for over a year, Fahmida Kamal died in a hospital in Chattogram today.
21 March 2022, 15:24 PM
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Furniture for all seasons

If one takes a right turn from Bahaddarhat intersection in the port city, they’ll find Khaza Road, and after walking further down the road they would reach Bolir Haat, one of the largest furniture hubs in the country.
15 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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A rendezvous of booklovers

Be it a weekend or work day, readers from all age groups are rushing to the Amar Ekushey Book Fair, at the MA Aziz Stadium Gymnasium premises in the port city, since its inauguration on February 20.
8 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Household waste stinks up the city

Arun Bikash DeyAmong the many problems that consume a metro, the one that has become a headache for port city dwellers is poor waste management.
8 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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A psychiatric centre from the 1800

Defying all odds, a century-old ayurvedic psychiatric treatment centre in Chattogram is proudly operational, serving patients, especially insolvent ones, with love and care.
1 March 2022, 18:00 PM

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