With a series victory in sight, the Tigers probably wouldn’t have preferred any other ground than the one that they will be playing on today. Yes, it is true that they seem to have built their fortress at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur lately, but that should not overshadow the series of positive results ... Read more
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Proteas feel the heat, finally
South Africa finally began to feel the heat in their Bangladesh tour as they go into the third and final one-dayer in Chittagong today hoping to avoid the ignominy of series loss. The Proteas looked overwhelmingly favourites when the series began at the weekend until Bangladesh found a way to beat the side in the ... Read more
CCC files GD for obstructing its mobile court
The Chittagong City Corporation on Thursday filed a general diary with the Khulshi police station in connection with Wednesday’s attack on its mobile court team at the city’s GEC crossing, police and corporation officials said. Police said the CCC inspector, Abul Monsur, filed the
Chittagong sitting on a seismic zone: Expert
Chittagong and its adjoining areas are highly vulnerable to earthquakes. Dr Mohammed Jahangir Alam, vice-chancellor (VC) of Chittagong University of Science and Technology (CUET) and city planner, said: “Most of the buildings in the port city lack quake-proof measures and no other precautionary arrangements to face any such natural disasters”. “As a result,
Criminals go on the rampage thru KEPZ
Criminals attacked Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in Anwara upazila and vandalised its office and assaulted some employees on Monday. Witnesses said over 100 youths, allegedly led by the chairmen of nearby three union parishads, riding on motorcycles stormed into the KEPZ around 11 am and went on the rampage. They vandalised the administrative office
Five-storied building tilts in Chittagong
A five-storey residential building tilted on Saturday at Paschim Sholashahar in the Chittagong city prompting the law enforcers to evacuate the dwellers. According to the police and local sources, the Kohinur Mansion in Shyamoli residential area under Panchlaish police station suddenly tilted
How Chittagong is losing its natural environment
The overall natural environment of the port city of Chittagong is under threat due to pollution, rampant hill cutting, tree cutting, absence of a drainage and sewerage system and discharge of clinical, industrial and household wastes. This is causing health and environmental hazards. Sources said the water of the Bay of Bengal at the Chittagong ... Read more
Minister opposes proposed power plant near Ctg Airport
The environment and forest minister, Hasan Mahmud, on Tuesday opposed the installation of a 50MW power project near Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, saying that the project would harm the environment. At a press briefing marking World Environment Day
Rapist gets life-term in Ctg
A Chittagong metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment and fined him Tk 50,000 for violating a female student in Chittagong. The convict was identified as Nur Mohammed, 32, son of Abul Kashem, resident of Shah Mirpur area under Karnaphuli police station in the district.
Student killed in Ctg
A college student was killed early Sunday at Alkaran under Sadarghat police station in Chittagong. The deceased was identified as Rintu Ghosh, 25, a second year student of Gachbaria Government College under Chandanaish upazila in the district,
Khalil elected CMCCI president
Khalilur Rahman was elected president of the Chittagong Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry while Shawkat Ali Chowdury was elected its first vice-president in a meeting of the board of directors of the trade body in the port city on Saturday night. Saiful Alam, Ali Hossain Akbar Ali, Taslim
CMCH intern attacked, BCL shuts hospital
Irate Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists closed all the gates of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for more than eight hours in protest against the attack on former president of the BCL’s CMC unit and an intern doctor of the CMCH, Sohel Pervez Suman, on Saturday, causing immense inconvenience for patients and their relatives. Islami ... Read more
Fire panic injures 14 RMG workers in Chittagong
At least 14 workers were injured while scrambling down the stairs of a garment factory in panic as a fire broke out in the building at Nasirabad in Chittagong on Saturday. The injured were Mahfuza, 21, Baby, 25, Rupa, 22, Rubi, 20, Jahanara, 28, Nazma, 26, Jaheda, 21, Rina, 22, Khadiza, 22, Ranu, 22, Banu ... Read more
CMCH interns go on indefinite strike
The interns at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Saturday began an indefinite strike protesting against attack on a intern physician, also former medical college unit Chhatra League president. Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student organisation backed by the ruling Awami League, locked the gates of the medical college hospital blockaded
Private university students block road in Ctg
The students of BGC Trust University on Saturday blocked Chittagong –Cox’s Bazar highway for about 30 minutes as four students were injured by the police at Patiya upazila in Chittagong. Students and campus sources said that a student bus of the carrying the private university was hit from behind by a bus of Eagle Transport ... Read more
Damaged Chittagong embankment poses danger
About one crore people living in the coastal belt of Chittagong, including 50 lakh in the city area alone, are exposed to cyclone and tidal surges, as the long embankment from Patenga to Sitakunda has been damaged in many places. The same goes for the embankment between Banshkhali and Anwara. It is allowing high-tide water ... Read more
Ctg gets DEMU railcar service
Bangladesh Railway on Saturday pressed into service three DEMU railcars in Chittagong, two of them for the commuters in the port city. The third DEMU railcar would shuttle between the port city and Laksham, railway officials said.
Ctg Jamaat-Shibir men go into hiding fearing arrest
Most of the senior leaders of Chittagong unit of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student association Islami Chhatra Shibir including Jamaat lawmaker ANM Shamsul Islam and former Jamaat lawmaker Shahajahan Chowdhury, went into hiding fearing arrest, leaving organisational activities almost inoperative. As a result, there was no significant presence of the Jamaat-Shibir
Ctg road accident kills one
An elderly man was killed in a road accident at Tiger-pass in the Chittagong city early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Pulin Shil, 66, a resident at Sholkata of Anwara upazila under the district.
BR opens DEMU railcar service in Ctg May 25
Bangladesh Railway is set to open its Diesel Electrical Multiple Unit railcar service on two routes in Chittagong from May 25, said officials. It also has a plan to open DEMU railcar service between Chittagong University and the port city on the same day, they said.