Promoting young filmmakers

A three-day documentary film festival titled Liberation Docfest Chattogram 2022 was held in the port city, aiming to promote young film makers at the district level. The festival ended on Saturday.
18 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Chattogram: A city of fading greenery

Once upon a time, the country’s port city was celebrated for its lush vegetation and green hills. However, in the last three decades, the city has already lost half its greenery to unchecked, unplanned urbanisation.
18 October 2022, 18:00 PM

First river resource centre launched

The first river-based resource centre of Bangladesh was inaugurated on Sunday at the bank of Halda river in Chattogram.
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

A father’s fight against noise pollution

Since last July, entrepreneur  Sujan Barua, a father of two, has been campaigning against noise pollution in different areas of Chattogram.
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

CESC becomes inter cantonment debate champions

Triumphing over 70 institutions across the country, Cantonment English School and College  of Chattogram (CESC) has become the champions (College category) of the “Inter Cantonment English Medium Schools & Colleges Parliamentary Debate Competition-2022”.
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Children to get Laldighi back

Even though the historic Laldighi Maidan was renovated over a year ago, the ground hasn’t been officially reopened, depriving children of a place to play.
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Good news for Ctg commuters

Train services between Chattogram and Dohazari will resume next month amid widespread demands of commuters following two years of Covid induced closure.
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Pollution killing Karnaphuli plants

As many as 81 species of plants on Karnaphuli riverbanks are in danger of going extinct over the next few decades due to the dumping of industrial wastes and other forms of pollution. 
11 October 2022, 18:00 PM

A haven for criminals

Criminal activities in Jungle Salimpur and adjacent areas used to make headlines more often than not.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM

Integrated planning the key

Environmentalists believe that the huge environmental destruction of Jungle Salimpur poses a great threat to the ecosystem as the landscape has seen tremendous changes over the years due to mindless hill cutting.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Where else do we go?’

Ten years ago, Rahima Akhter and her husband migrated to Chattogram from Noakhali and bought a plot in Chhinnomul Bazar of Jungle Salimpur from the Mashiur gang. They paid Tk 30,000 for the land and built a semi-pucca house.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM

400 acres of hills gone in 15 years

Standing just beside the Fouzdarhat-Bayezid Link Road, Sitakunda’s Bangla Bazar area will welcome any visitor with an abundance of hilly greenery. However, the scene inside the area is not quite as it seems at the first sight.
4 October 2022, 18:00 PM

An ode to a brave heart

In honour of the sacrifice of the first Bengali revolutionary nationalist and first Bengali woman who fought against the division of Bengal,Pritilata Waddedar, the government has named a 12km road from Chattogram’s Patiya upazila to Boalkhali upazila after her.
27 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Passing days in fear

Only two years after its reconstruction, the Ghoramora embankment in Sitakunda’s Sonaichhari Union collapsed. Now, over 25,000 people in five villages are passing their days amid fear.
27 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Cancer patients in crisis

The lone brachytherapy machine at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has been out of order for over three months, forcing cancer patients to suffer.
27 September 2022, 18:00 PM

‘We are gardeners’

“Durbar Tarunnya”, a social organisation, has launched a tree plantation campaign in Moghadiya Union under Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram recently to play their part in preserving the environment.
20 September 2022, 18:00 PM

An enlightening initiative

Whenever one thinks of a police station, they would imagine police vans sitting outside, ready to roll out. They would think of seized vehicles, piles of documents sitting on the desks and criminals behind bars.
20 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Hope for hills

After so many years, the Department of Environment (DoE) has finally taken an initiative to conduct a specialised survey with an aim to protect Chattogram’s hills.
20 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Dengue cases on rise in Ctg

The number of dengue patients is on the rise in Chattogram despite the city corporation regularly conducting anti-mosquito drives.
20 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Sufferings to linger for 2 more years

The deadline to complete the construction of the Chattogram elevated expressway has been extended for two more years. Meanwhile, the immense suffering of the port city residents in their daily commute is to continue.
20 September 2022, 18:00 PM