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.
Two workers died in two separate incidents at two shipbreaking yards in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today.
Around 40 robbers with weapons are expected to surrender to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chattogram tomorrow.
A man has been killed in a “gunfight” with police in Jor Debar Par area under Double Mooring Police Station of Chattogram, hours after he murdered his three-year-old nephew.
Chattogram district’s Civil Surgeon’s Office has categorised nine upazilas as red zones for Covid-19 infection.
Local administration seizes around 1,000 litres of adulterated hand sanitiser and fined tradersTk 75,000 for running their businesses illegally at different parts of Chattogram city.
Authorities have categorised 11 areas under Chattogram City Corporation as red zones for Covid-19 infection.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) claims to have busted a firearms making factory at a remote hilly area between Rangunia and Paitya upazilas of Chattogram, and arrested two persons including a firearms maker in this connection.
Hundreds of workers of a factory in Chattogram city stage a demonstration, demanding their due salaries for last two months.
A foreman’s leg is severely injured after a hatch cover fell on him while working at a shipbreaking yard at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram.
Despite the ongoing nationwide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, dozens of shipbreaking yards have started to reopen at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today, compelling workers to rejoin work.
