FM Mizanur Rahaman

Flood damages crops worth Tk 1,844.66cr in Ctg region

Crops worth an estimated Tk 1,844.66 crore have been damaged in the recent flash flood in Chattogram region.

2w ago

Chattogram airport losing business from foreign airlines

In the last 11 months, four foreign airline companies have halted their operations at Chattogram airport, leaving only two still operating

3w ago

‘We want to know if they are alive’

In Chattogram, families of two individuals, who were allegedly picked up by law enforcers years ago, are still desperately seeking answers.

1m ago

Flood water recedes, traffic resumes

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.

1m ago

Flood causes 50km jam on Dhaka-Ctg highway

The economic lifeline of the country, the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, remains flooded in Feni.

1m ago

Attacks on Ctg police establishments: Damages worth Tk 23cr, 500 firearms looted

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.

1m ago

Innocent people get caught up in violence

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.

1m ago

Over 126 students arrested in a week

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.

2m ago
July 29, 2018
July 29, 2018

Port city faces gas crunch

Since Friday, many port city residents have been suffering from an acute gas shortage as Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDL) has started its pipeline maintenance work.

July 23, 2018
July 23, 2018

Traffic cops withdrawn for assaulting bank official

A sergeant and a constable of Gazipur traffic police were withdrawn yesterday, after they beat up a bank official in Tongi upazila in the district.

July 23, 2018
July 23, 2018

DNA test points to roommate

There was no witness to the grisly murder of Ateef Sheikh, an Indian medical student who was found murdered at his apartment on July 15 last year in Chittagong city's Akbar Shah area.

July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018

'They asked me to run'

Samar Krishna Chowdhury, who has been implicated in two “false” cases, has said two sub-inspectors with consent from the OC of Boalkhali Police Station, tried to kill him in "shootout".

July 13, 2018
July 13, 2018

Rashed 'admits' taking money from Rony

In a new twist in the “feud” between Chittagong-based coaching centre businessman Rashed Mia and former Chhatra League leader Nurul Azim Rony, Rashed has “admitted” that Rony was his business partner.

July 5, 2018
July 5, 2018

Still a mystery

It has been more than 60 days since the body of ninth-grader Tasfia Amin was recovered from the concrete blocks on the bank of Karnaphuli River on May 2, but investigators are yet to make any breakthrough over the mysterious death.

June 5, 2018
June 5, 2018

Charge sheet soon, but key suspect still 'on the run'

Two years after the murder of former SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, police are going to wrap up the investigation and file the charge sheet.

May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018

Councillor Killing in Teknaf: Family demands judicial probe

The family members of Teknaf municipal Ward Councillor Akramul Haque, who was killed in a “gunfight” with RAB-7 on May 27 in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive, have demanded a judicial investigation into the killing.

May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018

A case of mistaken identity

Family members of Habibur Rahman, who was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) at Chittagong's Barisal Colony on May 17 amid the ongoing countrywide anti-narcotics drive, claimed that he was “innocent”.

May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018

Narcotics Trade in Ctg: Over 100 dealers control 300 spots

In the port city, there are over 300 spots where peddlers have been selling drugs, including yaba, for years dodging the law enforcers, according to Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) officials.