Mostafa Yousuf

Revisiting the golden era of Bangla films, HSBC Bangladesh recently hosted a delightful musical programme, titled Gaan Hoye Ele, at Radisson Blu in Chattogram.

Feni University, a privately owned institution in the district’s Sadar upazila, has been filling up a century-old waterbody disregarding several notices from Department of Environment.

The Ministry of Industries has slapped a three-month ban on Khaja Ship Breaking Yard at Sitakunda upazila from buying scrapped vessels or securing any locally, after an investigation revealed poor workplace safety at the yard -- a violation of Ship Breaking and Recycling Rules-2011.

With bright lights all around, colourful seating arrangements to watch the sun rise or set, ample number of jetties stretching from shore into the water and a wide boardwalk to stroll with family or friends, Patenga beach has become a much sought-after destination not just for port city residents but for others too.

The Rural Electrification Board plans to install 457 kilometres of power lines through forests in eight districts, a move vehemently opposed by the forest department.

Nironjon Das, a fisherman of Jele Para in Hathazari upazila, spent his life comfortably like his forefathers, by fishing for a living.

A woman died apparently from electrocution in Chattogram yesterday with the Rural Electrification Board (REB) officials disregarding villagers’ complaint to fix an electricity line.

Locals struggle to source water for daily needs as thousands of shallow tube wells installed in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in 2017 to meet the water demands of more than a million Rohingya refugees have been taking a toll on ground water levels.

A ban on fishing in the Naf river and unavailability of work due to the Rohingyas influx has put the livelihoods of 8,000 fishermen in jeopardy in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

Thousands of Rohingyas yesterday rallied in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, urging the international community to ensure justice for the atrocities the Myanmar military committed against them.

Tensions ran high in Teknaf’s Hnila union yesterday after some Rohingya criminals killed a Jubo League leader at a refugee camp in the area on Thursday night.

Production at Karnaphuli Paper Mills has remained suspended since August 6, causing the country’s lone state-owned paper mill a loss of over Tk 5 crore.

With an aim to boost broodfish stock in Halda, the Hathazari upazila administration has taken up a project to release one lakh fry in the river.

Just five months into its last tariff hike, Chattogram Water and Sanitation Authority (CWasa) is mulling to increase water tariff yet again by more than 60 percent, in an apparent bid to bridge the gap between production cost and existing price.

Regular patrolling and reducing the number of self-powered vessels plying the Halda river could help recuperate the endangered dolphin population in the river, according to a study.

Trees and plants on many acres in one of the country’s oldest reserve forests, Sita Pahar, have been razed in Rangamati but the authorities have virtually done nothing to stop it.

Three workers died and three others injured after inhaling toxic gas at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

The Chattogram Development Authority has been filling up vast swaths of low-lying land, designated as water reservoirs, in the name of building residential areas.

Factories in the key industrial belt of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram have been enduring water crisis for more than three years, which forced many of them to slow or even halt production.

A peaking power plant in Hathazari has been ordered to suspend operation after officials found that it had been polluting the Halda river.