Chattogram

The rain stopped days ago, and floodwaters have receded from most areas. Knee-deep water still remains in some places. People who had taken shelter at evacuation centers or relatives' homes have started returning to their own houses. But many no longer recognize the homes they left behind. Some houses have collapsed, while others bear the scars of the flooding. They left their homes to save their lives. For now, they have survived. But returning home has marked the beginning of another...

NCP had demanded a ban on the political activities of the Jatiyo Party, criticizing its role in three controversial elections held during the Awami League era. The party raised the demand in a meeting with former Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus and also organized rallies and demonstrations in support of it. However, a year later, a different picture has emerged. While visiting Chattogram to distribute flood relief, top NCP leaders Nahid Islam and Hasnat Abdullah stayed at the home of...

Chittagong's sky has stopped crying after eight days. It was sometimes in torrents, and some other times in moderate or drizzling rain. The rain, with the sky covered in heavy clouds, sometimes made the mind pensive. It also stirred the melancholic heart. The suffering and hardship caused by waterlogging had to be endured quite a bit during these days. Rain fell evenly in the morning, afternoon, evening, and night. After noon today, the cloud-covered sky has transformed into a blue sky. As...

Banshkhali upazila in Chattogram comprises 212 villages. The only drainage route for these villages is the 32-kilometer Jalkadar Canal, which runs through the middle of the upazila. A total of 246 sluice gates have been built along the canal and its connected waterways. Of them, only 89 are authorized. Local influential individuals constructed the remaining gates illegally without regard for the law. The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has no control over these 157 unauthorized...

The Bangladesh Army has been deployed in Chattogram under the ‘Aid to Civil Power’ framework to help respond to the district's worsening flood situation. At the request of the Chattogram deputy commissioner, troops have already begun search, rescue, and relief operations in the flood-affected areas. The Bangladesh Army disclosed the information in a press release issued to the media on Friday. According to the statement, continuous heavy rainfall and flash floods from upstream have i...

Every monsoon season, the greater Chattogram region faces the threat of deadly landslides. After a landslide killed 127 people in Chattogram in 2007, an expert committee issued a 36-point set of recommendations, including the eviction and rehabilitation of residents living in high-risk hillside settlements to prevent future disasters. Another committee proposed 35 recommendations after landslides killed 170 people in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, and the Chattogram Hill Tracts in 2017. Most of...

Rough seas have suspended cargo loading and unloading from ships at the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port for the past three days. Several container yards inside the port's secured area are now flooded. The lower sections of stacked cargo containers remain submerged, raising fears of damage to imported goods. The rough sea has completely halted cargo unloading from 50 large vessels anchored at the port's outer anchorage and in the deep waters off Kutubdia. The ships are carrying a com...

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations scheduled for Wednesday (July 8) have been postponed in Chattogram and Rangamati districts under the Chattogram Education Board due to flooding and adverse weather conditions. However, examinations will be held as scheduled in Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, and Khagrachhari districts under the Chattogram Education Board, as well as under all other education boards across the country. The announcement came in a notice issued T...

Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman was traveling to Cox’s Bazar with 21 family members aboard the Parjatak Express intercity train. What was supposed to be a joyful family trip has turned into a long and anxious wait. Continuous heavy rainfall submerged sections of the railway line, leaving the train stranded in Chattogram. After waiting nearly eight hours with female family members and children, Rahman rushed to the station in search of alternative transportation. “I have never experienced su...

After a largely dry June, heavy rainfall has dominated the first week of July. A low-pressure system over the sea later intensified into a monsoon depression, triggering continuous rain over the past three days. The downpour has matched warnings issued by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department and shattered several rainfall records on Tuesday. Chattogram recorded 412.3 millimeters of rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 3 pm Tuesday. The city has not seen such rainfall in recent histor...

Mohammad Jewel Rana was known in his area as a talented footballer and a supporter of Brazil. He had become disappointed after Brazil lost to Norway today. At around 11 am, Jewel posted a photo of Neymar on his Facebook account. In the caption, he wrote, “Teams win and lose, but I can’t accept this defeat for Neymar.” Fifteen minutes after making the post, Mohammad Jewel Rana, 25, died in a road accident. The accident occurred at around 11:15 am on Monday in the Daroga Bazar area of B...

Nearly 350 venomous snakes of various species are being kept and studied at a venom research facility inside Chattogram Medical College (CMC), where researchers are working to develop an antidote from snake venom. The Venom Research Centre (VRC) has been carrying out the work for the past eight y...

Less than a kilometer from Chattogram District Stadium, a small shop stood on the western bank of Askar Dighi. Beneath a tin roof and behind bamboo fencing, football jerseys and shorts once filled its shelves. The shop was called Orbit Tailors. A signboard once hung above it. It was later blo...

A fraud network allegedly involved in attempting to secure a Tk 300 billion monorail project in Chattogram has come under international diplomatic scrutiny. After global construction giant Orascom Construction and Egypt’s state-owned The Arab Contractors, headquartered in Cairo, denied any in...

A fire that broke out in the yard of Jetty No. 3 at NCT in Chattogram Port was brought under control after 35 minutes. A team from the port’s own fire service reached the scene and succeeded in extinguishing the blaze at 3:20 pm on Monday. Cargo loading and unloading operations at the jetty resu...

Bangladesh imports goods worth around $23 billion annually from China, while exports to the country stand at only about $1 billion. Previously, this $24 billion worth of trade moved through transshipment ports via indirect routes. With the launch of direct shipping services, cargo from China is...

Khasmahal, a village in Gunagari Union of Banshkhali Upazila, lies about 40 kilometers from Chattogram city. The Kodala canal, which originates from a hill stream in the area, flows westward through Khasmahal. A paved road runs along the canal’s bank. Traveling five kilometers west along that ro...

The bloodied body of Shakera Yasmin was recovered from a rented house in Chattogram’s Bandar Tila area on May 27 last year. Her family later filed an unnatural death case at Bandar Police Station. Following the complaint, police arrested her husband, Mohammad Yakub. A post-mortem examination was...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has visited the grave of Md Wasim Akram, the first martyr from the Chattogram Division in the 2024 mass uprising. On Saturday afternoon, the Prime Minister personally drove to Wasim’s ancestral home in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar. He was accompanied by his wife Dr...

Who will become the next chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR)? The tenure of current chairman Abdur Rahman Khan will end on June 30. After serving two years, there is little indication that his term will be extended. He has reportedly struggled to align with the policy direction of the c...