Pranabesh Chakraborty

Victims and their families now demand that the state confiscate all moveable and immovable properties of convicted war

A Chittagong court yesterday handed down death penalty to five people, including a man and his son, for killing Himadri Majumder Himu in 2012.

Trial proceedings of 27 cases involving terror and militant activities remain halted in different Chittagong courts, which have been

People in the coastal areas of Banshkhali upazila in Chittagong fear of more floods ahead as cyclone Roanu had badly damaged large portions of an embankment.

The houses are mostly shut from inside. The males are hardly seen anywhere. The villages seem deserted.

Nothing beats good food and great company. Be it an occasion or celebration, friends or family members constantly get together at a restaurant or order food from outside to save time and energy.

In response to great demand from TV viewers in greater Chittagong region, the Chittagong Centre of Bangladesh Television will extend its two-hour long programmes to six-hours everyday. All that waits is the formal inauguration of the TV centre by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Around 13,000 CNG-run auto rickshaws in Chittagong city have to start charging fares on meters tomorrow, an initiative aimed at

Within a few days, the 15km embankment from Patenga to Sagorika would look like a long forest clearing as the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) keeps on cutting down trees to make way for building a ring road in Chittagong city.

In 1999, Erwan Peron was badly shaken by an oil spill off the Atlantic coast in France. Erika, a fuel oil laden tanker, sank in Atlantic Ocean near the coast of France. The oil spill from the tanker washed up a huge coastline of the country, causing deaths of thousands of marine birds and animals.

“Writings start from silence and the real enemy of writing is talking,” Joy Goswami, an acclaimed contemporary Bangali writer, said as he mixed with readers and literature enthusiasts of the port city at a programme on Friday evening.

People around were just watching as the eight-year-old started to disappear into the canal in Nimtala of Chittagong but then he came in, jumped into the water and rescued the child.

The cases filed each month in Chittagong district overwhelmingly outnumber the ones adjudicated during the period. As the cases pile

A solo art exhibition titled “Khero Khata” featuring the artworks of eminent artist Ahmed Nawaz opened at the auditorium of District Shilpakala Academy on Friday.

When reputed Korean jazz vocalist Woong San with her lucid voice began to render the famous Bangla patriotic song “Ami Banglaye Gaan Gai” of Pratul

It was around 11:00am on the fateful morning of April 17, 1971.

Three days into the oil spill from sunken train wagons in a Boalkhali canal, the local authorities yesterday put an oil-boom in the water

An acute water crisis has been prevailing in Chittagong city for several weeks due to a fall in production by the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa).

With the monsoon here, fear of landslides grip those living in the hill regions, especially on the hillsides.

Since the wee hours of yesterday, there were boatloads of fishermen drifting in the Halda river. They had waited for months because the