Sifayet Ullah

At around 11:30am yesterday, a group of five stepped down from a CNG auto-rickshaw at the Badurtala Boro Garage intersection in Chattogram. Two men and three women stood briefly by the roadside. One young man carried a hand microphone and a poster, while the others held leaflets.

Long before Foy’s Lake became a popular destination for leisure and tourism, it was created for a practical purpose.

A decade ago, travellers on the Dhaka–Chattogram highway could see lush hill forests and fertile fields while passing through Satkania. Today, the landscape is dominated by rows of brick kilns belching smoke and scarring the land.

A newly constructed kitchen market in the Gohira area of Raozan municipality in Chattogram has remained unused for nearly a year despite shops being handed over to the vendors.

Even after 21 months since the inauguration of Cox’s Bazar railway station, locker service is yet to be made available for passengers, leaving many tourists disappointed.

Bangladesh Railway’s revenue from container transportation, long regarded as its only reliably profitable operation, has fallen to its lowest level in nine years, raising concern among officials and service users.

The Chattogram City Corporation and Water Development Board are currently in a dispute over the demarcation of Kalirchhara canal in the port city’s Akbarshah area.

Ferry service on the Banshbaria–Sandwip route has been disrupted for the past six months after one of the two pontoons at Banshbaria ghat sank in the Sandwip Channel.

Located beside Krishi Farm Road in the heart of Hathazari upazila of Chattogram stands what is arguably one of the oldest surviving mosques in the division, the Fakir Mosque.

The Nashrat Shah Dighi in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila, a Sultanate-era reservoir dug in 1519, is on the verge of disappearing due to rampant grabbing.

Md Alamgir Hossain, manager of Morium Bhaban in Chattogram’s densely populated Akbar Shah area, spends three consecutive nights every week waiting by the motor switch for water from Chattogram Wasa.

The Forest Department and the Chattogram district administration are at odds over the control of  a forest land in Sitakunda upazila, where a recreational park has been developed after felling hundreds of trees.

As a result, the plant's operational costs fall far short of its expected revenue

With its large green dome and tall minaret atop a square brick structure, the Badr Awliya Shrine, built over 700 years ago during the Sultanate period, is among the oldest sites in Chattogram city.

Roads and Highways Department (RHD) razes hills in Chattogram's Ramgarh–Sitakunda reserve forest area to expand a road

A portion of a century-old pond in the Farider Para area has been illegally filled in violation of existing environmental laws.

A renovated railway track at Chattogram’s Soloshohor Junction has remained unused for 20 months since its completion, raising serious questions over planning and accountability.

The longstanding demand for turning the busy Chattogram–Kaptai Road into four lanes has once again been ignored, leaving students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology and locals frustrated.

The Chattogram Development Authority’s (CDA) residential project in West Chararkul of Fatehabad has seen at least six buildings constructed since its launch in 2016, but none has design approval from the authority.

The Roads and Highways Department’s move to expand the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway running through the Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary could spell disaster for wildlife habitats and disrupt several key elephant corridors in the ecologically sensitive area, warn forest officials and environmentalists.