Arun Bikash Dey

Winter is widely held as the season for vegetables. As supply of vegetables floods kitchen markets, prices come down drastically. But this year, the economics is yet to work out in Chattogram.

It is not that open-market sales (OMS) of essentials at lower than market prices are unforeseen in the port city. Trucks of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) often sell rice, lentils and other daily groceries at various points of the city. However, there has been a marked difference in their latest stint of sales than previous times.

With Election Commission (EC) set to declare the schedule of by-polls to Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon) constituency by next week, around half a dozen candidates from Awami League and BNP were trying to secure party nomination.

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) is set to launch a research vessel today to conduct study for increasing fish production in Kaptai Lake -- the biggest artificial lake in South-east Asia -- located in Rangamati district.

From now on, the journey to Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport from Sadarghat will take less than 30 minutes -- an otherwise excruciating experience of around two hours due to perennial gridlocks.

A one-year-old boy died at a hospital in port city yesterday, within an hour of being administered an antibiotic injection.

Noakhali residents Md Ismail (30), Md Yusuf (30) and Md Rakib (28), came to port city in early November in search of work.

Thousands of cows in about 3,000 farms across Chattogram have been affected by lumpy skin disease (LSD), triggering panic among farmers.

Port city residents are deprived of parks and planned recreational places although it is a city to which nature has endowed all its beauties. There are only six parks in the city for around six million people.

The three-day Indian Film Festival kicked off in the port city, Chattogram on November 7. Chattogram Film Centre, in association with the High Commission of India, organised the festival at Theatre Institute Chattogram. Six Indian movies were screened at the festival.

Troyee pretended to catch a fish. As soon as the six-year-old put her hand against the wall of an aquarium it swam away.

The MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram was packed to the rafters yesterday as around 30,000 spectators came to watch the Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup final between Chattogram Abahani and Terengganu FC.

Three of a family died and three others were injured on their way home from hospital as the gas cylinder of an ambulance exploded in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila yesterday.

With British era Kalurghat Bridge over the Karnaphuli river becoming unsafe during the last two decades, Chattogram residents have long been demanding a new bridge to ease their commuting woes.

Traffic chaos has become a common phenomenon in the port city due to haphazard movement of vehicles on streets, gridlocks at intersections and negligence in duty by officials concerned, according to commuters.

With BNP willing to contest the next Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election, party leaders and activists are already gearing up to take the field in full strength.

The Central Skin and Social Hygiene Health Centre, popularly known as American Hospital, in the port city is struggling to cope with the rush of patients due to lack of adequate manpower, logistics and funding.

A nexus of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission’s Chattogram office provides forged national identity cards to Rohingyas, an EC investigation team has found.

When Brajendra Debnath felt chest pain a few months ago, his doctor advised him to undergo a coronary angiogram. The 72-year-old contacted private diagnostic centres in Chattogram, but was daunted by the examination cost of Tk 20,000.

At least 73 suspicious applications were uploaded to the Election Commission database for issuing national identity cards, a government committee has found while probing the forged NID card of a Rohingya woman in Chattogram.