City Desk : dhakamirror.com A week-long Asian Fusion Food Festival started at Hotel The Peninsula in Chattogram city on Thursday. Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) chairman M Zahirul Alam Dovas inaugurated the food festival at Laguna Restaurant located on the 5th floor of Peninsula Chattogram while general manager of Peninsula Chattogram Sumedha Gunawardene along with invited ... Read more
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8th KSRM Golf Tournament held in Chattogram
Sports Desk : dhakamirror.com The 8th KSRM Golf Tournament-2022 was held at Bhatiari Golf and Country Club in Chattogram on Friday (2 December). This year the tournament was participated by some 170 competitive golfers, reads a press release. Major General Mizanur Rahman Shamim, president of Bhatiari Golf Club and GOC of the 24 infantry division of ... Read more
Frobel Academy holds reading fair
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Frobel Academy, a Cambridge associate school, organised a reading fair on their campus at Ananya Residential Area in Chattogram recently. The reading fair invited booksellers from Chattogram and Dhaka. Children bought the books based on their interest at the fair, said a press release. Frobel Academy believes in nurturing the minds ... Read more
120 hills disappeared from Chattogram in 4 decades
An environmental group called Bangladesh Environment Forum alleged Sunday that 120 hills had vanished from Chattogram city in the past forty years. The port city’s hills decreased from 32.37 square kilometers in 1976 to 14.02 square kilometers in 2008, according to a written statement from the forum’s general secretary, Aliur Rahman. He was addressing during ... Read more
Pacific jeans installs rooftop solar power plant
Business Desk : dhakamirror.com A rooftop solar power plant with automatic cleaning system and a capacity of 3.5mw per day has been installed at Universal Jeans Ltd, a concern of Pacific Jeans, at the Chattogram EPZ, at a cost of $0.5 million as part of its green energy initiative. This 3.5mw electricity will meet 10% ... Read more
Two more firefighters die at hospitals in Dhaka, Ctg
Two more firefighters, who sustained injuries in a fire at BM Inland Container Depot at Sitakunda in Chattogram on June 4, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka and Parkview Hospital in Chattogram on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Md Nurul Kader, 22, son of AKM Faizur Rahman
7 DVR seized from BM container depot in Ctg
The Criminal Investigation Department today (June 11, 2022) seized the digital video recorder (DVR) —that stores CCTV footage on a hard disk –from BM Container Depot Limited where a devastating fire broke out, killing 45 people. The BM Container at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram was monitored with 118 CCTV
After 86 hours, fire finally doused in Ctg depot: Army
After 86 hours, the devastating fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda has finally been doused, said Lt Col Ariful Islam, commander of the 18th Brigade of Bangladesh Army’s 24th Infantry Division. He confirmed the development to journalists today (June 8, 2022). The fire was completely extinguished around 12pm. There are no flames anywhere in ... Read more
60 hours later, Ctg depot fire finally under control, says army
After 60 hours, the Bangladesh Army claimed to have brought the deadly fire at Sitakunda BM Container Depot under control. “We were able to put out the fire, and there is no danger of it happening again. We’ve marked the hazardous area and are working to prevent further damage and
Families gather in front of CMCH in search of missing victims
Most of the bodies remain unidentified News Desk : dhakamirror.com Family members of unidentified victims during a fire and massive explosion at privately-run inland container depot, BM Container Depot, at Sitakunda on the outskirts of the country’s port city Chattogram on Saturday night gathered in front of Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Monday morning. While ... Read more
At least 49 killed, over 200 injured in Ctg container depot fire
News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least 49 people were killed and over 200 people were injured in an explosion as a fire broke out in a privately-run inland container depot at Sitakunda in Bangladesh’s southeast district of Chattogram at the night following Saturday. Officials said that the victims in the fire at BM Container Depot ... Read more
Training workshop held at CUET
A day-long training workshop on ‘helping to create new entrepreneurs’ was organised at Sheikh Kamal IT Business Incubator at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology in Chattogram on Sunday. CUET vice-chancellor professor Mohammad Rafiqul Alam inaugurated the workshop as chief guest at the conference room of the incubator at 11:00am while Sheikh Kamal IT Business
Brood fish release sample eggs in Halda
Brood fish in the Halda have released sample eggs – indicating full spawning – since Saturday night at various points of the river. Egg collectors got 200-500 grammes of eggs on average since Saturday night from the river. Ashu Barua from Madunaghat area, a seasoned egg collector, told The Daily Star that they started coming ... Read more
3 arrested with snake venom worth Tk 5 crore
Detectives Branch (DB) of police in a drive in the port city’s Double Mooring area seized two pounds of snake venom and arrested three people last night (May 13, 2022). The arrestees are Mohammed Ismail, Md Jaynal Abedin and Rupan Chakma, said a DB press release. Zahirul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of police Chattogram
BRAC Bank introduces real-time cash deposit machine
Brac Bank has launched 39 real-time cash deposit machines (RCDMs) in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Bogura, Jashore and Pabna in the first phase. The machine allows customers to deposit cash any time and any day of a week to their Brac Bank accounts and pay credit card bills within minutes, a press
‘Jabbar er Boli Khela’ to be held on April 24-26
Chattogram City Corporation have decided to hold the 111th edition of popular wrestling competition “Jabbar er Boli Khela” from April 24 to 26 on the Kotwali to Andarkilla road in the port city. CCC Mayor Rezaul Karim Chwodhury made the announcement in a press briefing yesterday.On April 13, the committee announced suspension of this year’s ... Read more
Necrophiliac morgue worker arrested in Chattogram
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today arrested a morgue guard of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on charges of necrophilia in the port city. The arrestee is Md Selim (48), hailing from Cumilla’s Laksam, said CID’s Special Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shahnewaz Khaled
CU students stage demo demanding regular shuttle train service
Students of Chittagong University (CU) today staged a demonstration demanding a regular schedule of shuttle trains on the university route. They came up with the demand padlocking the university’s entrance at 1:20 pm today, a correspondent from CU campus reports
Two ends of Bangabandhu Tunnel joined beneath the Karnaphuli river
Two ends of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel were met together under the Karnaphuli river on Thursday afternoon. With the cutter of the tunnel boring machine cutting through the wall, China Communications Construction Company Limited, the contractor, and China Road and Bridge Corporation, the constructor, successfully achieved breakthrough of both tubes of the tunnel. ... Read more