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Chattogram Waterlogging

Chattogram under water, again

18 August 2026
Downpours coupled with tidal surges inundated vast stretches of Chattogram city yesterday, crippling transport and causing severe public suffering.
18 August 2026
Chattogram Waterlogging

Heavy rain, high tides leave Chattogram under water again

17 August 2026
With key canal development works still unfinished, 189mm of rain inundates large parts of port city
17 August 2026
Bangladesh shipbreaking accident

Shipbreaking yards: ‘Green’ on paper, deadly on ground

16 August 2026
Though many of Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards have gone green on paper, workers continue to face deadly safety hazards, with at least 84 accidents recorded since the Hong Kong Convention came into force last year.
16 August 2026
Dengue Cases In Bangladesh Latest Update

Dengue cases surge in Chattogram

15 August 2026
Dengue cases in Chattogram district are surging rapidly in August, triggering concern among residents.
15 August 2026
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Dengue cases surge in Chattogram as 361 infections recorded in 11 days

14 August 2026
The district has reported 1,195 dengue cases and three deaths this year, while a DGHS survey identified 8 city wards as high-risk for Aedes mosquito breeding
14 August 2026
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Gas crisis hits Chattogram again as LNG vessel unable to berth due to rough sea

13 August 2026
Supply fell to around half of the city’s daily requirement as LNG operations disrupted at Maheshkhali
13 August 2026
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Chattogram gas crisis leaves households without cooking fuel

2 August 2026
Thousands struggle to cook as supply shortfall following Maheshkhali LNG terminal fire hits households, factories and transport
2 August 2026
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Waterborne diseases surge in flood-hit Ctg region

18 July 2026
Waterborne diseases are spreading rapidly across the flood-hit districts of Chattogram division amid an acute shortage of safe drinking water and the collapse of sanitation systems.
18 July 2026
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First endoscopic brain-tumour surgery performed in Ctg

For the first time in Chattogram, a patient’s brain tumour has been removed using endoscopic procedure, a minimally invasive method.
31 May 2022
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Connecting farmers with consumers

Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) researchers have developed a distribution model of pure cow-milk that would benefit both consumers and dairy farmers.
31 May 2022
EVM voting

‘My men will press EVM button for you’

Awami League chairman candidate for Banshkhali’s Chambol Union Parishad said he would keep his men at polling booths to press EVM buttons if voters failed to do so.
31 May 2022

Patients suffer as MRI service halted in CMCH for 2 weeks

Sujit Dey, a patient hailing from Patiya upzila in Chattogram, came to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of his legs as he suffers from an arterial disease.
29 May 2022
7th Bangladesh Jubo League congress

JL to hold council after over a decade

Enthusiasm has grown among the leaders and activists of Jubo League in Chattogram over the long-expected council scheduled to start from today.
27 May 2022
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Port city drowns after drizzle

A drizzle in the morning was all it took to submerge Chattogram city’s low-lying areas yesterday, resulting in residents, commuters and pedestrians having to deal with muddy and waterlogged roads.
21 May 2022
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‘Rain or shine, our woes linger on’

Residents of West Bakalia (ward 17) in the port city are the worst sufferers of waterlogging during monsoon every year.
17 May 2022
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Risks increase, initiatives don’t

Accidents and casualties caused by open canals and drains are still fresh in the memories of port city residents. Yet the
17 May 2022
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BNP moves to strengthen party at Ctg grassroots

To strengthen the party ahead of the next parliamentary election, BNP has focused on strengthening the grassroots in Chattogram by forming new committees in various organisational units.
13 May 2022
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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

‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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