Arun Bikash Dey

An allegation of “deliberate harassment” was raised by nine female tenth-grade students against a teacher of their school in Chattogram city.

Twenty-two-year-old Abu Taleb underwent an operation in a private hospital in the port city two days after being injured in a road accident at Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar on September 3. Due to post operative complications, Taleb required intensive care support. The hospital, however, lacked this facility.

The government would have to face unimaginable “punishment” if it did not meet the Jatiya Oikyafront's demand for fair polls, said Dr Kamal Hossain, a top leader of the alliance, at a rally in Chattogram yesterday.

The first ever hospital just for pet care is scheduled to begin operation, with the objective of providing treatment and healthcare to pet animals, at Purbachal in the capital later this month.

Taslima Begum, 55, a resident of Fatikchhari upazila in Chattogram, had her uterus removed three years ago through a hysterctomy. As she was feeling unwell recently, her family took her to see a medicine specialist in the port city, and the doctor prescribed her some medical tests.

Chattogram City Corporation started reconstruction work of a roadside temple on Tuesday, a day after it was demolished “mistakenly” during an eviction drive.

The “unusual” and unbearable spell of heat prevailing through Dhaka city is likely to come down by today, according to experts at the Met office.

With Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) conducting mobile court drives since August 30 and imposing strict measures on vehicles plying without proper documents or route permits, commuters of the port city are suffering due to a shortage of public transport on city roads.

Octogenarian Nazir Ahmed fell down on the floor of his house at Chandgaon in the port city on August 26, and got hurt in the waist. He was admitted to a private clinic in the city the same day, and was undergoing treatment.

Oli Ullah was holding his one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter in his arms tight while standing in the corner of a road in City Gate area near the port city yesterday morning.

With Eid-ul-Azha just days away, sales in the cattle markets in Chittagong city are gaining momentum as turnouts are getting bigger.

Dr Pradip Kumar Dutta maintains quite a busy schedule.

Private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chittagong withdrew their indefinite strike yesterday noon after causing immense suffering to patients for 20 hours.

An outbreak of hepatitis E has spread to many areas in the city, particularly in Halisahar, in the last few days.

A three-year-old girl who was suffering from cold and sore throat died allegedly due to “wrong treatment” at a private hospital in Chittagong city early yesterday.

An outbreak of Hepatitis E Virus in Chittagong city's Halishahar and Agrabad areas for the last three months has put the lives of the residents at high risk.

At first glance, it might look like a heavily bombarded area pitted with craters. Some of the larger ones are filled with rainwater. A closer look, however, would reveal diggers and labourers rushing at the place close to Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Satkania.

With people of the port city enjoying their Eid holidays, the recreational spots of the city have been abuzz with visitors during the last few days.

It was around 11:00am yesterday.

On the night of August 13 last year, a driver of a container trailer lost control of his vehicle in Port Access Road in Chittagong and it tipped over and fell on a cng-run three-wheeler.