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.
A departmental probe body yesterday said there was 63.1 tonnes of excess rice in Chittagong silos, a day after the regional controller
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.
A bridge in Chittagong's Chandanaish upazila sagged just two days before its inauguration last month.
Music enthusiasts of the port city enjoyed an enchanting musical evening that featured songs of legendary singer Hemanta
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.
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.
Pantomime is a powerful art medium which has the ability to touch the heart of the audience with silence.
“Writings start from silence and the real enemy of writing is talking,” Joy Goswami, an acclaimed contemporary Bangali writer, said as he mixed with readers and literature enthusiasts of the port city at a programme on Friday evening.
People around were just watching as the eight-year-old started to disappear into the canal in Nimtala of Chittagong but then he came in, jumped into the water and rescued the child.
The cases filed each month in Chittagong district overwhelmingly outnumber the ones adjudicated during the period. As the cases pile
A solo art exhibition titled “Khero Khata” featuring the artworks of eminent artist Ahmed Nawaz opened at the auditorium of District Shilpakala Academy on Friday.
When reputed Korean jazz vocalist Woong San with her lucid voice began to render the famous Bangla patriotic song “Ami Banglaye Gaan Gai” of Pratul
It was around 11:00am on the fateful morning of April 17, 1971.
Three days into the oil spill from sunken train wagons in a Boalkhali canal, the local authorities yesterday put an oil-boom in the water
An acute water crisis has been prevailing in Chittagong city for several weeks due to a fall in production by the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa).
Since the wee hours of yesterday, there were boatloads of fishermen drifting in the Halda river. They had waited for months because the
With the monsoon here, fear of landslides grip those living in the hill regions, especially on the hillsides.
