Arun Bikash Dey

Senior politicians of both Awami League (AL) and BNP are facing challenges within their families in Chattogram, with their sons also vying for respective parties' nomination for the upcoming national election.

Former BNP-backed mayor of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) M Manjur Alam has collected a nomination form from Awami League to contest the upcoming national election from Chattogram-10 constituency.

Political parties contesting the 11th national election under the grand alliance, led by the Awami League, are seeking to persuade the alliance to allocate a minimum of five seats out of the 16 constituencies in Chattogram.

A total of 19 female candidates from Awami League (AL) and six from BNP are trying to secure party nominations for different constituencies in Chattogram in the 11th national polls.

Out of order X-ray machines at most health complexes in Chattogram have left low-income people of the district in the soup.

Kitchen markets in the port city are witnessing a fall in the prices of seasonal vegetables in comparison with last week.

People of low-income group, who saved their hard-earned money with an NGO in Chattogram city for promised high returns, have become victims of alleged fraud as the organisation suddenly closed shop and its officials disappeared.

An allegation of “deliberate harassment” was raised by nine female tenth-grade students against a teacher of their school in Chattogram city.

Twenty-two-year-old Abu Taleb underwent an operation in a private hospital in the port city two days after being injured in a road accident at Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar on September 3. Due to post operative complications, Taleb required intensive care support. The hospital, however, lacked this facility.

The government would have to face unimaginable “punishment” if it did not meet the Jatiya Oikyafront's demand for fair polls, said Dr Kamal Hossain, a top leader of the alliance, at a rally in Chattogram yesterday.

The first ever hospital just for pet care is scheduled to begin operation, with the objective of providing treatment and healthcare to pet animals, at Purbachal in the capital later this month.

Taslima Begum, 55, a resident of Fatikchhari upazila in Chattogram, had her uterus removed three years ago through a hysterctomy. As she was feeling unwell recently, her family took her to see a medicine specialist in the port city, and the doctor prescribed her some medical tests.

Chattogram City Corporation started reconstruction work of a roadside temple on Tuesday, a day after it was demolished “mistakenly” during an eviction drive.

The “unusual” and unbearable spell of heat prevailing through Dhaka city is likely to come down by today, according to experts at the Met office.

With Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) conducting mobile court drives since August 30 and imposing strict measures on vehicles plying without proper documents or route permits, commuters of the port city are suffering due to a shortage of public transport on city roads.

Octogenarian Nazir Ahmed fell down on the floor of his house at Chandgaon in the port city on August 26, and got hurt in the waist. He was admitted to a private clinic in the city the same day, and was undergoing treatment.

Oli Ullah was holding his one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter in his arms tight while standing in the corner of a road in City Gate area near the port city yesterday morning.

With Eid-ul-Azha just days away, sales in the cattle markets in Chittagong city are gaining momentum as turnouts are getting bigger.

Dr Pradip Kumar Dutta maintains quite a busy schedule.

Private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chittagong withdrew their indefinite strike yesterday noon after causing immense suffering to patients for 20 hours.