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.
The transport strike in Chattogram and Rangpur was called off yesterday after it caused immense suffering to commuters and businesspeople.
Road transport workers in Rangpur calls off their indefinite strike following assurance of administration to meet their demands including compensation to the family of driver Jala, who was beaten to death in Chattogram Tuesday.
Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.
A 24-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her home in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram after she resisted an alleged rape attempt by two youths early Sunday.
A Chattogram court places a bus driver on a three-day remand in a case filed over assaulting a female student of Chittagong University when she was returning to the city from the campus.
Five people including a policeman suffers bullet injuries in separate clashes centering upazila parishad elections in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts.
A Chattogram court sends 28 leaders and activists of BNP to jail in 11 cases filed over their alleged involvement in subversive activities in the port city.
Two policemen sustain stab injuries after they reportedly came under attack while conducting a drive to confiscate the property of a fugitive accused in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.
Angry traders and locals yesterday morning beat a former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader to death, for alleged extortion, at Pahartali Railway Bazar in the port city.
A Jubo League activist was killed in an attack allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity at Sitakunda in Chattogram yesterday.
