Pandit Swarnamoy launches album in port city
A cultural evening featuring renditions of Pandit Swarnamoy Chakraborty was held in the port city on Saturday. On the occasion of launching his first vocal classical CD, Classical Music Students Forum Chittagong organised the programme at AK Khan Auditorium of Fulki.
7y ago
Rice stocked illegally
A departmental probe body yesterday said there was 63.1 tonnes of excess rice in Chittagong silos, a day after the regional controller
7y ago
Whose rice is it anyway?
As many as 155 tonnes of rice seized in the port city while being smuggled out of government depots was packed in jute sacks bearing the insignia of the Directorate General of Food. The directorate, however, claimed the rice seized from seven trucks was not theirs.
7y ago
Cracks in Ctg bridge days before its launch
A bridge in Chittagong's Chandanaish upazila sagged just two days before its inauguration last month.
7y ago
Chittagong pays tribute to Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Music enthusiasts of the port city enjoyed an enchanting musical evening that featured songs of legendary singer Hemanta
7y ago
Recommendations to save hills fall on deaf ears
It has been 10 years since the technical committee of the Divisional Hill Management Committee (HMC) came up with 36 recommendations to protect the hills in the port city and its nearby areas to avert future loss in landslides.
7y ago
Thousands at risk of landslide
Thousands of people living on the slopes of hills in Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Cox's Bazar are exposed to landslides in the rainy season due to cutting of hills and unauthorised use of public land.
7y ago
A silent soldier of pantomime
Pantomime is a powerful art medium which has the ability to touch the heart of the audience with silence.
7y ago
August 31, 2016
Confiscate properties of Mir Quasem
Victims and their families now demand that the state confiscate all moveable and immovable properties of convicted war
August 15, 2016
Five get death sentence
A Chittagong court yesterday handed down death penalty to five people, including a man and his son, for killing Himadri Majumder Himu in 2012.
July 23, 2016
27 anti-terror cases stuck
Trial proceedings of 27 cases involving terror and militant activities remain halted in different Chittagong courts, which have been
May 24, 2016
Large parts of embankment damaged in Banshkhali
People in the coastal areas of Banshkhali upazila in Chittagong fear of more floods ahead as cyclone Roanu had badly damaged large portions of an embankment.
May 21, 2016
Villages wear deserted look for raids
The houses are mostly shut from inside. The males are hardly seen anywhere. The villages seem deserted.
May 18, 2016
Substandard food trade rampant in port city
Nothing beats good food and great company. Be it an occasion or celebration, friends or family members constantly get together at a restaurant or order food from outside to save time and energy.
February 16, 2016
A treat for Chittagong viewers
In response to great demand from TV viewers in greater Chittagong region, the Chittagong Centre of Bangladesh Television will extend its two-hour long programmes to six-hours everyday. All that waits is the formal inauguration of the TV centre by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
January 31, 2016
Meter use mandatory from tomorrow
Around 13,000 CNG-run auto rickshaws in Chittagong city have to start charging fares on meters tomorrow, an initiative aimed at
January 11, 2016
Tree felling fest in Ctg
Within a few days, the 15km embankment from Patenga to Sagorika would look like a long forest clearing as the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) keeps on cutting down trees to make way for building a ring road in Chittagong city.
December 22, 2015
Bringing Nature into Art
In 1999, Erwan Peron was badly shaken by an oil spill off the Atlantic coast in France. Erika, a fuel oil laden tanker, sank in Atlantic Ocean near the coast of France. The oil spill from the tanker washed up a huge coastline of the country, causing deaths of thousands of marine birds and animals.
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