Arun Bikash Dey

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the situation of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the scenario of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.

The two factions of Jubo League had clashed in Patiya, Chattogram on Tuesday to establish supremacy, said political leaders and locals.

With Eid-ul-Fitr inching closer, sales in different shopping malls and roadside markets in the port city are picking up.

Fifteen-year-old Md Musa is one of the many child transport workers in Chattogram, employed as a helper of a human haulier on the Chawkbazar to Halishahar Baro Pool route.

Hundreds of fasting Muslims, sitting on the floors, waiting to break their fast with the call for evening prayer -- such has been the everyday scene at the port city’s Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque during the month of Ramadan for over a decade.

The pile of waste that the authorities had lifted from Chaktai canal has just been lying on the road at Chawkbazar Phooltola area for around a week, making locals and pedestrians suffer.

The story of Jagat Chandra Mahajaner Panthoshala starts around 100 years ago. Those were the times when locals mostly travelled on foot or boat.

Waterlogging on the port city’s Ujir Ali Shah Lane has made the lives of residents miserable for the last three months, as Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) temporarily blocked Chaktai canal to build a retaining wall.

Venomous snakes. In boxes, inside a laboratory.

Two lovers. Between them stood the biggest obstacle imaginable -- death itself.

After struggling with cancer for over a year, Fahmida Kamal died in a hospital in Chattogram today.

If one takes a right turn from Bahaddarhat intersection in the port city, they’ll find Khaza Road, and after walking further down the road they would reach Bolir Haat, one of the largest furniture hubs in the country.

Be it a weekend or work day, readers from all age groups are rushing to the Amar Ekushey Book Fair, at the MA Aziz Stadium Gymnasium premises in the port city, since its inauguration on February 20.

Arun Bikash DeyAmong the many problems that consume a metro, the one that has become a headache for port city dwellers is poor waste management.

Defying all odds, a century-old ayurvedic psychiatric treatment centre in Chattogram is proudly operational, serving patients, especially insolvent ones, with love and care.

The family that lost five siblings after a pickup truck ran them over was hoping against hope that another member would survive the accident, but it proved to be in vain yesterday.

Pedestrians in the port city cannot walk on footpaths for more than 200 yards at a stretch uninterruptedly. The reason: illegal occupation by vendors, hawkers and shopkeepers.

Roktim Shil, one of seven victims in the tragic road accident in Chakaria that saw death of five brothers, is now fighting for life at Intensive Care Unit of Chattogram General Hospital (CGH).

The peak season for dried fish has kept producers in Chattogram busy at work, with collection, sorting, drying, piling, warming, packing and storing going on in full swing.