Chattogram’s pioneering multiplex Silver Screen, which opened in August 2018 with the promise of a modern cinema exhibition, has permanently closed down—quietly and without formal announcement. Located at Finlay Square, Silver Screen was the port city’s first multiplex and enjoyed initial success with strong audience turnout.
Discover bold Chattogram flavours with recipes like beef kala bhuna, beef curry, akhni biriyani, and steamed shutki curry. These dishes bring authentic Chittagonian spice, heritage, and heart-warming tradition to your home kitchen.
A picky eater’s food-focused trip to Chattogram delivers unexpected delights, from unforgettable aloo bhorta to heavenly hotel breakfasts — despite missed mezban dreams. A flavourful journey that proves Chattogram’s hidden culinary gems are worth discovering.
The Barabkunda Agnikunda in Sitakunda, Bangladesh, is a sacred flame mysteriously burning on water for centuries. Fuelled by natural methane, it blends myth, science, and spirituality into a rare, unforgettable travel experience.
Guliakhali does not try to impress you with rolling waves or the classic “beach photo-op” look. It just is. It seems as though someone took a beach, churned it in a mangrove forest, and then gently spread a grassy carpet on top. There are a lot of open grasslands, areas of shimmering water that cut through the green like silver veins, and mangrove roots that rise like natural sculptures. You don’t arrive at Guliakhali; you ease into it.
As someone who has lived in Dhaka and Chattogram for a more or less equal number of years, I am here to tell you that the port city is much better than the capital. Admit it: Dhaka is overrated.
Chattogram’s first monorail aims to ease traffic with faster, cheaper transit, but scepticism remains due to past delays and unfinished projects. If successful, it could boost urban life, business, and tourism, though locals debate its immediate necessity.
Picture a crowded harbour where the salty seabreeze carries whispers of far-off lands, where merchants of all creed and caste haggle over silks and spices, and where towering ships of all varieties – Chinese junks, Arab dhows, and Portuguese carracks – sway gently in the waters of the Bay of Bengal.
A recent study has confirmed the presence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in the drinking water at various restaurants, tea stalls, food carts, and diagnostic centres across Chattogram city, posing serious public health concerns.
A 16-year old named Ayman Mohammad from Chattogram has made it to Guinness World Book of records by stacking most coins into a tower within a minute.
At long last a new container terminal is going to be added to the Chattogram port as the authority is going to start trial operation of a newly built Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) this week.
Police recovered more human remains under the debris of BM Container Depot today in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, 10 days after the blast that claimed 47 lives so far.
Following the fire and explosions in BM Container Depot at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila, chemical-mixed water has been spreading in the vicinity.
Deadly depot blast exposes the poor state of industrial safety in Bangladesh
A Chinese company has been given the charge of collecting tolls of the "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel" built under the Karnaphuli river in Chattogram.
Rail communications of Chattogram with Dhaka and Sylhet was restored after around 10 hours of suspension following a train derailment at Rajapur station in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila early today.
Can a parliamentary standing committee recommend a project directly to the prime minister without any due diligence? The law explicitly does not permit it.
Another direct container shipping service between Chattogram and two European ports is going to be introduced next month.
A youth, who claimed to have a bomb on him, was arrested today from Trust Bank premises at the BNS Isha Khan of Chattogram EPZ.
