Crops worth an estimated Tk 1,844.66 crore have been damaged in the recent flash flood in Chattogram region.
In the last 11 months, four foreign airline companies have halted their operations at Chattogram airport, leaving only two still operating
In Chattogram, families of two individuals, who were allegedly picked up by law enforcers years ago, are still desperately seeking answers.
Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, often referred to as the lifeline of the country, fully resumed on Sunday night after floodwaters receded from various sections in Feni and Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram.
The economic lifeline of the country, the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, remains flooded in Feni.
The spree of attacks on numerous police establishments in Chattogram district following the resignation of the Awami League-led government on August 5, caused infrastructural damages worth around Tk 23 crore, said police officials.
Mohammed Ashik, 23, who works at a mobile repairing shop in Chattogram city’s Reazuddin Bazar, was going to his workplace around 11:20am when he found himself in the line of fire as activists of Jubo League and Chhatra League were shooting at protesters yesterday.
On Sunday, Rezaul Karim Kusum Chowdhury was waiting at Chattogram’s 6th Metropolitan Magistrate Court for a bail petition hearing for his nephew Talha Mahmood Chowdhury, who was arrested in a violence case over the quota reform protests.
According to historian and researcher Shamsul Haque, Chattogram’s shipbuilding business developed on the banks of Karnaphuli, where merchants from across the world used to come to purchase ships and later sail them across the sea, loaded with their goods.
One of the two constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, who had gone missing in the Netherlands during an official training, contacted his family and said that he would not return home.
Rasel Chandra Dey, one of the police constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), who reportedly went “missing” in the Netherlands during an official training there, has refused to come back to Bangladesh, according to his family members.
Two police constables who went to the Netherlands for an official training exercise remain missing since May 22, the day before they were supposed to fly back to Bangladesh.
Two water ambulances worth almost a crore have been lying abandoned on Sandwip island of Chattogram for a long time. This has barred locals from accessing healthcare facilities.
Protecting Halda River’s broodfish and dolphins from poachers has become much easier, thanks to a small technological initiative. Chattogram region’s river police are now using CCTV cameras to monitor activities in the river.
Oman Air plans to start running daily flights from Dhaka to serve the growing number of passengers from the country as the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital is set to make its new terminal operational, said Sunil V A, regional vice-president of the airline.
Their lives are not like those of other children’s.
Vermicelli, locally known as “Shemai” is a dish that’s ever-present in every household during Eid.
Police rescued a child, who was abducted from the port city’s Roufabad area on April 13, and arrested three people from Chandpur early yesterday in this regard.