Low hilsa catch, turbulent weather frustrate fishers days after ban ends
Businesspeople expressed hope that tourism during Eid-ul-Azha holidays will generate over Tk 700 crore in transactions in Cox’s Bazar.
A humanitarian crisis in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps is brewing in the face of funding shortage for the refugees and more arrivals from the conflict-ridden Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Locals came together to dig canals in an effort to drain the accumulated water
Over 1,000 acres of protected mangrove forest on Sonadia Island in Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar have been razed since August 5 last year.
Ignoring objections, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Cox’s Bazar is constructing a jetty in and on the foreshore of the Maheshkhali Channel, the most important waterway in South Chattogram that flows into the Bay of Bengal.
Nestled in the thick shade of a large mango tree in Chowdhury Para of Teknaf Municipality, a wooden tree house offers quite the spectacle..Built by former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi, the structure was a quiet retreat where he entertained VIPs and special guests..However,
Rohingyas are entering Bangladesh through various points along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border from Naikhongchhari in Bandarban to Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.
There is growing concern along border areas in Cox's Bazar of a fresh Rohingya influx into Bangladesh from the conflict zone in Myanmar's Rakhine, due to recent attacks on the Muslim ethnic group
Hotels, resorts and motels in the country’s holiday destinations are lying idle for a lack of tourists amidst the deterioration of law and order since Sheikh Hasina resigned from the post of prime minister on August 5 in the face of a mass uprising.
Hasina Begum has become numb since her eldest son, Ahsan Habib, 25, died after being shot in the neck during a clash centring the quota reform protest on July 18.
Zahra Mayeesha, a 26-year-old private job holder, was preparing to return to Dhaka from a two-day vacation to Sreemangal with her husband on July 16.
While the World Refugee Day is being observed today across the globe, Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar are still passing days amid uncertainty regarding their repatriation to Myanmar.
Amid growing skirmishes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army across the border, movement of vessels between Teknaf and the Saint Martin’s Island has become risky, causing uncertainty over supply of food and other essentials to the island.
Two trawlers from Teknaf will sail for the St Martin’s today with essentials to ease the food crisis on the island, said Yamin Hossain, additional district magistrate of Cox’s Bazar, yesterday.
People of Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila have been hearing loud sounds of explosions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state over the last two days.
Cox's Bazar is the main hub of salt production in the country and officials estimate 38,000 metric tonnes of salt are being produced each day.
Thousands of tourists flocked to Cox's Bazar beach this weekend amid the extreme heatwave when the country has been witnessing the record high temperatures in April in 76 years
