Mostafa Yousuf

To render medicare to non-Covid-19 patients living in remote areas, Cox’s Bazar district administration has initiated a mobile hospital service.

All seven members of a family have recovered from Covid-19 following 11 days of treatment at a Chattogram hospital.

A high-level expert team comprising of plant protection experts, entomologists and agricultural scientists visiting Teknaf upazila have identified the locust-like insect reported in Teknaf as spotted grasshopper.

Experts have finally put an end to fears of a possible locust attack over a deserted farm in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila and concluded that the insects seen last month are in fact “spotted grasshoppers”.

Bangladesh’s first field hospital dedicated for Covid-19 patients is set to be inaugurated today in Chattogram’s Sitakunda.

Around a thousand fish egg collectors at Halda river, a unique natural breeding ground for carp fish in South Asia, are hoping for a high yield this year due to drop in pollution following the countrywide shutdown to tackle Covid-19.

Fish egg collectors at Halda River are excited with hopes of a good yield due to a drop in pollution this year thanks to the ongoing countrywide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. But at the same time, they worry that it will be difficult to sell their catch.

Dozens of ship-breaking yards in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram have started operations since yesterday amid the countrywide shutdown that has been imposed by the government to contain coronavirus.

As life has almost come to a halt due to shutdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, lower income people across the country are left to languish.

News is considered to be the first draft of history; it also happens to be a catalyst for action. At least in this case.

News is considered to be the first draft of history; it also happens to be a catalyst for action. At least in this case. On March 31, The Daily Star ran a report on the return of sagarlata also known as beach morning glory on the beaches of Cox’s Bazar -- owing to a fall in human movement in the area.

All it took was a mere few weeks for it to come back to the vast stretch of Cox’s Bazar sea beach.

At least two workers died and another required medical attention allegedly after being exposed to toxic gases while manually dismantling a scrap ship at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

The industries ministry yesterday banned the import of scrap ships until April 7 and asked around 100 foreigners on five ships, anchored at the deep sea of Sandeep channel of the Bay of Bengal, to be in quarantine for 14 days.

The iron-like object which fell on a village at Bhatiyari union of Sitakunda on Saturday afternoon, is part of a crane that was being used to drag fragments of a larger barge crane weighing 5,000 tonnes.

Amid fear of coronavirus spread, teachers in port city yesterday started participating in a training session to discharge duties at polling centres as presiding, assistant presiding and polling officers for the upcoming Chattogram City Corporation polls.

Relatives, activists and supporters of councillor candidates contesting in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election have been participating in campaigns, defying instruction of home quarantine imposed by government in a bid to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.

At a time when the government has declared shut down of educational institutions and discouraged gatherings as precautionary measures against the possible spread of coronavirus in the country, candidates for the upcoming port city polls seem unperturbed by it and are continuing to hold rallies and public meetings.

The Election Commission is motivating residents across the port city to turn up at polling centres on the election day (March 29) to cast their votes using electronic voting machines as “EVM is more convenient and easy to use”.

Two teachers of Chattogram’s Forestry Science and Technology Institute have been extorting students for years by threatening them with poor scores in exams, said students providing this paper with a video clip as evidence.