Students of the educational institutions across the country, participating in the national mourning programme on Wednesday, expressed their deep shock and sorrow at the death of 44 fellow-students in Mirsharai. Black flags were hoisted at schools and colleges across the country. The students and teachers wore black badges, attended special prayer sessions and observed
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Farmer drove truck
The man, who was driving the truck that turned turtle into a ditch in Mirsarai killing so many children Monday, was a farmer most of his life and he did not even have a driving licence. Mofiz, in his late 40’s, was a helper to the driver of the vehicle owned by Haji Rice Mill. ... Read more
Mourning at schools today
Condolences pour in; case filed against helper-turned-driver Educational institutions across the country will today mourn the loss of 44 lives in Monday’s road crash in Mirsarai of Chittagong. As condolence poured in from across the country, ministers and education officials yesterday rushed to Mirsarai to condole with the bereaved families. No words were soothing enough ... Read more
Tears in heaven
Rubber slippers float on water, reddish partly from oil leaked from the truck or from blood of 42 children and 2 others who perished when it plunged into the ditch. People still come and stand silent to give a vacant look at the site. Only ravaging anger and a sense of nothingness prevail
Survived but shell-shocked
His whole body except the left leg was free. The leg was stuck in the muddy ditch bed and the railing of the truck. Only a few inches under the water, Borhan felt it was miles to conquer. He tried to gather strength to give it a last try. Someone trapped under the truck pulled ... Read more
Gloom descends as bodies arrive home
A pall of gloom was hovering over the Abu Torab-Bartakia Road, strewn with bodies of the schoolboys killed as a pick-up truck carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch at Mirersarai near the port city on Monday afternoon. A shrouded body was lying beside the road after every two or three
Death tears twins apart
Mohammad Sakhawat, class-V student of Abu Torab Government Primary School in Chittagong, plumbs the depths of pain after a road accident yesterday separated him from his twin brother Mohammad Ferdous for life. Sakhawat played for his school in a football match yesterday while his brother Ferdous cheered
Schoolboys’ trip of death
43 students killed as truck plunges into ditch; driver said to be talking on mobile, flees; nation in mourning A truck packed with students crashed and flipped over into a ditch in Mirsarai upazila yesterday afternoon, killing at least 43 of them and injuring another 12. Forty-one of the dead were schoolchildren and two college ... Read more
AUW sticks to expulsion order
Expelled students mull legal fight The authorities of the Asian University of Women in Chittagong have decided to stick to their stance on the expulsion of 12 students, who, the authorities said, failed to achieve the required marks in the semester examinations. The university authorities held a scheduled meeting with the expelled students and their
Ctg port tops 69 ports of 17 Asian countries
Despite having limitation of modern equipment, country’s key seaport, Chittagong port, secured top position in terms of efficiency among 69 ports of 17 countries in Asia, says a recent study. The report — Benchmarking the Efficiency of Asian Container Ports — says Chittagong port is using existing old and new equipment at its optimum level, ... Read more
AUW students rally against expulsion
The students of the Asian University for Woman in the Chittagong city on Thursday protested at the unilateral expulsion of 11 students and suspension of one student by the university authorities. The students broke open the main gate, which had been locked to prevent them from coming out of the campus of the residential university, ... Read more
Wave-based power plant takes shape in Bangladesh
A Malaysia-based company will build the plant in Ctg Techknow Industrial SDN Bhd, a Malaysia-based company, plans to establish a sea wave-based power plant in north Chittagong, said its Chief Executive Officer Richard Shie yesterday. Shie came to the port city to sign a land procurement deal for the factory at Kumira in Sitakunda, says ... Read more
Faulty work blamed for wall collapse
4 engineers suspended; death toll in Ctg landslide rises to 17 Faulty construction and lack of maintenance of the wall built by the Chittagong City Corporation to protect the Batali hill caused Friday’s tragic death of 17 people living in the foothill shanties. “Just by looking at the wall, we can easily find some faults ... Read more
Landslide, wall collapse kill 16
20 houses in Ctg hill destroyed; locals allege poor construction of protection wall At least 16 persons, including women and children, were killed as a portion of Batali Hill protection wall along with a huge chunk of earth fell on shanties early yesterday. The victims used to live in a slum of nearly five hundred ... Read more
Karnaphuli shrinking
Losing navigability due to heavy siltation, creating scope for land grabbers The Karnaphuli river, a lifeline for Chittagong city and the port, is gradually losing navigability with its width already shrunk by 50 to 270 metres at several points in the last two decades. Its depth reduced sharply for heavy siltation, disposal of huge quantity ... Read more
78pc Pass in Ctg
Fauzdarhat tops list Pass rate in SSC examinations under Chittagong board rose by 5.96 percentage point to 78.27 percent this year from last year’s 72.31 percent. Total examinees were 77,465 under the board this year. Of them 77,325 students sat for the examinations and 60,521 came out successful from 921
Halda fishes act unusually
Release eggs before rain; fishermen see salty water intrusion as reason Even in weather adverse to laying eggs, a number of fish species yesterday started releasing spawns in the Halda river at Hathazari and Raozan upazilas, the only natural fish breeding centre of sweet water in the subcontinent. Mother fishes depend on special factors like ... Read more
Chinese company cutting Ctg hills
DoE seizes trucks, equipment A team of the Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday in a drive seized five trucks, a pump machine and an excavator of a Chinese company and arrested one person for cutting hills and destroying the ecosystem in Sonapahar area of Zorarganj under Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong. Acting on a tip off, ... Read more
Temple, cremation ground grabbed
Developer in Ctg selling plots on arable land without CDA nod, but denies wrongdoings A housing company has grabbed and earth-filled a temple and a cremation ground in Chowdhury Hat area under Hathazari upazila of Chittagong. Elite Land Limited, the developer, encroached on the nearly one-acre cremation ground and a large portion of Laxmi Narayan ... Read more
Weeklong film festival in the port city begins
A weeklong film festival began in the port city yesterday. Alliance Francaise de Chittagong organised the festival, titled ‘Francophonie’ at its auditorium in association with Chittagong Film Centre (CFC). A total of ten films from five countries — Canada, France, Egypt, Switzerland and Vietnam — are being screened at the festival. The opening film, “The ... Read more