Arun Bikash Dey

The pandemic has increased students’ dependencies on electronic gadgets and mobile phones, with 68 percent passing two to four hours a day on their mobile phones, nine percent spending that much time in front of a computer screen and eight percent doing so on tablets, according to a recent study.

At least seven people sustained shotgun pellet wounds as “men of a Water Development Board contractor” opened fire during a heated debate with farmers over keeping dredging machinery on their land in Satkania yesterday morning.

At least seven people suffered bullet wounds during a clash between local farmers and SS Dredger, over the latter’s equipment taking up the farmers’ land from Sangu river this morning at Tulatoli village under Charati union of Chattogram’s Satkania upazila.

When open sewers in the port city have become a death trap claiming at least four lives in the span of just three months, the authorities concerned stay in a deep slumber instead of taking measures to prevent such deaths.

“Why did I not hold her hand tighter?”

A university student died after falling into a roadside drain at the port city’s Agrabad Badamtoli area on Monday night. The fourth such death in the last four months, the incident sparked major anger among citizens all over the city.

A whopping 34 percent of annual revenue of Chattogram Wasa simply drips into thin air.

The medicines we are self-prescribing in our efforts to fight off illnesses are actually creating stronger and deadlier germs.

Ever since schools started this week, Jayeeta Talukdar, a tenth-grader at Chattogram city’s Dr Khastagir Government Girls’ High School, has found it difficult to get to school in jam-packed public vehicles during rush hour.

Awami League (AL) leaders in Chattogram are divided over the government’s initiative of building a hospital at the port city’s Central Railway Building (CRB) area.

The story of how 148 Afghan female students of a university in Bangladesh managed to flee the Taliban-controlled Kabul can be used as the plot of a Hollywood thriller.

Three days have passed since vegetable trader Saleh Ahmed (55) fell into a roadside drain at the port city’s Muradpur area, but fire service’s rescue team is yet to trace him.

The port city once again went under water as yesterday’s overnight torrential rain, coupled with tidal surge, created waterlogging in its low lying areas, wrecking havoc on citizen life.

Allegations are rife over the mishandling of Covid vaccinations at some centres in the port city. The situation has become so convoluted in fact, that Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has withdrawn their volunteers from two vaccination centres run by Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), protesting irregularities in their vaccine programmes.

People involved with tourism, hotel and motel businesses breathed a sigh of relief as all tourist spots and parks reopened yesterday, after almost five months, despite ongoing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Without prior notice, the vaccine centres across the port city have suddenly stopped administering Moderna vaccines. This has left around 10 lakh registered vaccine aspirants in disarray.

Tofazzal Hossain took his mother to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) earlier this week, as she tested positive for Covid-19 and was suffering from breathing issues.

While people all over the country have been waiting in line for hours to get Covid-19 jabs during the mass vaccination campaign, which began three days ago, many in the port city have been found getting the facilities illegally at their homes.

Another black fungus (Mucormycosis) patient has been identified in Chattogram and is being treated at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) since Friday.

A patient diagnosed with black fungus (Mucormycosis) at Chattogram Medical College Hospital is not getting proper treatment due to lack of an essential drug necessary for the treatment, according to her family members.