Arun Bikash Dey

Chattogram city residents were surprised by a recent call from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), urging people to use the 11 footbridges.

Defying a government ban, CNG-run three-wheelers are still plying Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway.

Excavation of the Karnaphuli tunnel will commence in the third week of this month, a development much welcomed by the port city business community for the boost in communication Tk 9,880 crore-project would give upon its completion in 2022.

Owners and workers of various business establishments, cooperating with Chattogram District Administration in the ongoing eviction drive along Karnaphuli river, urged the authorities concerned to ensure their rehabilitation.

At least 68 female Awami League (AL) leaders in Chattogram have been trying to get party nomination to be elected as members of parliament in reserved seats for women.

“Linemen” allegedly working for traffic police collect toll from buses and human hauliers plying the streets of Chattogram and drivers are slapped with fines if they refuse to pay the toll, claim transport workers.

With no headway in investigation in four years, colleagues of Anjali Devi -- a senior teacher of Chittagong Nursing College (CNC), who was hacked to death in broad daylight in the port city -- demand that administration hand over the case to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) or Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Port city residents are aggrieved over the decision of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWasa) to increase household water bills by five percent from February 1.

Negligence in duty by traffic police is to blame for haphazard movement of vehicles on streets and gridlocks at intersections in Chattogram city, according to commuters.

Authorities of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) were found disposing of election posters hanged by candidates of the 11th parliamentary polls in the port city, without separating polythene covers on them, which according to experts is posing threats to environment.

The government is planning to establish parks in every upazila across the country, given the shrinking options of healthy entertainment for children.

After braving “difficulties” in campaign, BNP-led Jatiya Oikyafront candidates in Chattogram are now waiting for a “ballot revolution” by voters in the 11th national polls, scheduled to be held tomorrow.

Two members of the influential Maijbhandari family contesting the national polls in Chattogram-2 (Fatikchhari) may cause a split in the votes of supporters, according to locals.

Electoral campaign of BNP in Chattogram started to become more visible since yesterday, as leaders and activists of the party said they were feeling secure after the army started patrolling in the district.

With less than a week left before the December 30 national election, the polls scenario in Chattogram 14 and 15 constituencies remains dull.

In the neighbouring constituencies of Chattogram-12 (Patiya) and Chattogram-13 (Anwara and Karnaphuli), an opposite situation has been prevailing since the beginning of campaign.

BNP's first-time candidates in Chattogram district have expressed confidence that their lack of experience is not a setback because party popularity would be their key to victory.

With little regards to electoral conduct, supporters of two candidates of the national polls have plastered posters and banners of two candidates on walls of Chattogram city, while gateways were seen erected in favour of another candidate.

Paediatric departments of hospitals in Chattogram are dealing with a large influx of patients, as the advent of winter has brought with it cold-borne viruses and infections, of which infants are being the worst victims.

The combined wealth of environment, forest and climate change Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud and his wife has more than doubled since the last election, driven mainly by bank deposits.