"My husband is at least alive, even if his left hand has been amputated. It means a lot to me that he is still alive," said Nazneen Nahar, wife of Nurul Afsar, who sustained burn injuries in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Saturday night (June 4, 2022).
Abdul Majid was scurrying from place to place to find his son since late last night.
People from Mro and Tripura communities in Bandarban, who were affected by the fire on Jhum land, have refused aid from the local administration as the relief was being distributed in presence of those allegedly involved in burning the gardens at Langkompara, under Bandarban’s Lama upazila.
“My six brothers and one sister were about two arms’ length away from the road on the day of the accident. My other brother and I were on the street. Instead of hitting us, the pickup van targeted and crushed my brothers. The vehicle then came back and crushed my injured sister after killing my brothers,” said Munni Sushil, who survived the road accident in Chakaria upazila on February 9, last night.
When Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) constructed two swimming pools in 2015, it was hailed by the residents. They were constructed at a portion of the city’s Jatisangha Park area.
While going for a morning walk in port city’s Central Railway Building (CRB) area on Thursday, Abdul Aziz, a resident of Kazir Dewri, was taken aback after seeing a notice that read “This road has been closed permanently for public use; kindly use an alternative road”.
For a small shop without a signboard or even a name, the popularity of this butter store is unparalleled among the residents of the port city. For 80 long years, this shop with no name has ruled the hearts of the city, solely with the quality of its produce.
Three buildings and five tin-roofed houses were evacuated in Majirghat area of Chattogram yesterday hours after they tilted to one side amid the excavation work of a nearby canal.
The indigenous communities of the hill tracts will not celebrate their new year amid the coronavirus fears.
The local administration distributes government relief to the remote Kapru Para of Bandarban’s Lama upazila after The Daily Star ran a report on the matter titled “Acute food crisis hits village in Bandarban”.
Amid countrywide shutdown to prevent Covid-19, inhabitants of many remote hilly areas in several upazilas of Bandarban are facing a severe food shortage as authorities are yet to send any aid for these people.
People in the Bandarban Hill Tracts are imposing community-wide isolation to prevent spread of coronavirus.
One more Tripura child died of measles in remote Lungthian Para of Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila early hours yesterday, raising the total death toll due to the disease to seven.
Another Tripura child died of measles in a remote area of Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila.
At least five Tripura children died of measles over last three weeks and 130 others were also infected in Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila.
A child died from an “unknown disease” and around 40 people were affected in a span of three days in a small neighbourhood of Bandarban, said locals.
Yet another development authority, Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB), is allegedly flouting environmental laws of the country.
Locals are facing water crisis as flow in Panekyang canal in Bandarban Sadar upazila is badly affected due to lifting of huge quantity of water from a 100-foot-deep ring well that a local influential person constructed for running a hotel.
