Chattogram will become an even bigger industrial hub after the completion of ongoing projects including the Matarbari port, Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway and power plants, said ITO Naoki, Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, yesterday.

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the situation of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.

At least eight people, including a minor, were killed and several injured as a bus hits a microbus on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila early today.