Arun Bikash Dey

Around 30 percent of the port city roads are left in dilapidated conditions due to the onslaught of rain during this monsoon, escalating

Although it rained during the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday, it could not dampen the festive spirit of the port city residents.

On Saturday, two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists were locked in a clash at Chittagong College.

A JSC examinee of BEPZA School and College in the port city may lose the use of his left eye after a teacher allegedly caned him on July 29.

Retail prices of onion have doubled to Tk 42-Tk 44 a kilogramme on an average in Chittagong city in the span of a week.

Though around three months have passed after the abduction of Chittagong Awami League leader Nur-Nabi Mamun from Noakhali, law enforcers are yet to trace his whereabouts.

The office of Chittagong Superintendent of Police has got a boat for emergency movement, witnessing severe flooding of the compound during this monsoon with water going up to the waist and, in extreme cases, to the neck.

The deputy director of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) and three other doctors were made officers on special duty (OSD) allegedly for arranging a VIP cabin to treat an accused in a cocaine-haul case.

Ashish Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner of Chittagong Taxes Zone-4, now takes his office boat to work. Every day he meets a security guard who moonlights as a boatman.

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin completes the second year of his five-year term today, still struggling to address the city's debilitating waterlogging -- one of his key election pledges.

The local administration has expressed helplessness as if it did not have the capacity to prevent the loss of lives in Friday's landslide at Jungle Salimpur in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

It is a glaring example of how ineffective measures by the local administration and people's carelessness can lead to loss of lives. Only five weeks ago, rain-induced landslides killed over 170 people in the hill districts, 120 of them in Rangamati alone. Such a high death toll should have been an eye-opener both for the administration as well as for those living precariously in the hill slopes. But yesterday's deaths of five people in a Sitakunda landslide are evidence that last month's warning fell on deaf ears.

A departmental probe body yesterday said there was 63.1 tonnes of excess rice in Chittagong silos, a day after the regional controller

As many as 155 tonnes of rice seized in the port city while being smuggled out of government depots was packed in jute sacks bearing the insignia of the Directorate General of Food. The directorate, however, claimed the rice seized from seven trucks was not theirs.

Health workers had vaccinated children on a regular basis in Sitakunda's Tripura Para but they stopped visiting the remote hilly area

Sixteen more children in Sitakunda's Tripura Para became sick and were admitted to hospital yesterday, but doctors say the 68 other local children, hospitalised earlier with similar symptoms, were recovering.

Six more children fell sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para and were admitted to hospital immediately, but 51 children, hospitalised with similar symptoms, were apparently getting well.

Seven more children became sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para where nine others died this week showing similar symptoms.

Nine children have died, showing similar symptoms, in Tripura Para of Sitakunda in the last four days.

The waterlogging in Chittagong city is mostly a man-made situation caused by unplanned urbanisation, destruction of water bodies,