Odommo Chattagram Let’s ride on two giants Prof Yunus spurs country to cash in on ever-growing China, India Bangladesh’s future depends on a world-class seaport and a technology savvy young generation who would drive the country into a new global order in less than two decades, said Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus yesterday. Bangladesh must be ... Read more
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False declaration alert at Ctg port
Customs finds alarming rise of corruption in import Customs authorities have detected an alarming number of false declarations about import consignments at Chittagong Seaport recently. Irregularities were detected in the declarations for 367 consignments in the first seven months of this fiscal year, while only 58 such consignments had been detected during the same period ... Read more
New system, old result
Train Ticket Crisis in Ctg New system, old result Scalping of train tickets at Chittagong Railway Station is not being curbed despite the railway authorities’ preventive measures. The authorities reduced the lead time for buying advance tickets from 10 days to 3 days since February 17 in an attempt to make saleable tickets available at ... Read more
Water crisis in Ctg to deepen
Wasa struggles to meet growing demand in summer Chittagong city will face a deeper water crisis from April when demand for water is projected to peak to a level three times the water supplying authorities are able to supply. The crisis is already unbearable with Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) supplying just around ... Read more
Poor porcupine
Trapped, killed on CU campus Locals trapped and killed a porcupine on the Chittagong University (CU) campus yesterday. Mohammad Jinnah, aged around 45, at about 4:00pm trapped the porcupine from a bush in CU, said witnesses. Tying it up with rope, Jinnah was crossing the building for the faculty of arts and humanities when the ... Read more
Cost of living in Ctg goes beyond most
Arun Bikash Dey, Chittagong Schoolteacher Sourav Guha has become depressed about life as it has become very difficult to meet his family expenditures with his limited income. Last week he had a shouting match with a staff of an emergency power supply company when the staff asked him to pay an extra Tk30 for supplying ... Read more
35th innings defeat and counting
Pakistan take 1-0 lead Bangladesh suffered yet another innings defeat, this time against Pakistan in the first Test yesterday at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, leaving many questions dangling about their sorry state of affairs in the game’s highest format. The answers must come sooner than later to salvage some pride as an Elite Member. ... Read more
Captain Misbah hails team effort
Brushing aside all controversies and negative impact of Pakistan cricket, Misbah-ul-Haq thought that his side is on course to prove the rest of the world that they are a forced to be reckoned with. Pakistan cricket and controversy are always synonymous and consistency is rare case for them despite getting enormous talent and great cricketer ... Read more
Nothing wrong in natural game
Mushy blames structure instead There was hardly anything left for a captain to say when his team lost the match by an innings and 184 runs. That might be the reason why Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim was found at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday to be bewildering while talking about yet another heavy defeat. ... Read more
Bangladesh have nothing but hopes
With Pakistan firmly in control, building a lead of 280 runs, all Bangladesh have in the first Test in Chittagong is just some hopes, vice-captain Mahmudullah said after second day’s play on Saturday. ‘We’ve nothing to do but to hope for the best,’ Mahmudullah told a news conference. ‘As we could not bat well in ... Read more
Workers block road over house rent hike
Several hundred garment workers barricaded the main thoroughfare in Chittagong for several hours yesterday after police obstructed their rally called to protest frequent rise in house rents. Due to the blockade, traffic remained stranded on the Airport Road since 3:30pm until police high officials around 9:15pm assured the agitators of steps to meet their
Batting in freefall
Bangladesh’s batting has slipped deeper into crisis as Pakistan continued their dominance on tour, tightening their grip on the home side on the opening day of the first Test at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium yesterday. The manner in which the batsmen handled the world-class bowling attack by giving away their wickets made them look ... Read more
Pakistan dominate 1st day of Test
Pakistan dominated the first day of their two-match Test series against a dejected Bangladesh side after the hosts were bowled out for only 135 runs at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. Unbeaten half-centuries from openers Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar added insult to injury as Pakistan posted 132 runs without loss at stumps on
Season-based theatre fest begins in Ctg
A six-day theatre festival titled Magh Nishither Natok began yesterday at Theatre Institute in Chittagong. Arranged by Ritubhittik Natyamela Parishad, the theatre festival will be featuring a reunion of theatre activists, exhibition, open discussion, staging of plays, conferring of Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak and more. This year’s Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak
Driver Mafiz jailed for 5 years
A Chittagong court on Thursday sentenced truck driver Mafizur Rahman to serve five-year jail term with fines and in default nine more months’ imprisonment finding him responsible on several counts of reckless driving causing an accident at Mirsarai on July 11 which killed 45 persons including 43 school students. The fatal accident at Mayani in ... Read more
Can Tigers survive five days?
Bangladesh-Pakistan first Test begins today Eight years ago on a September afternoon all Bangladeshis were glued to television screen hoping for their national cricket team to record their maiden Test win away from home against Pakistan in Multan. It all ended in heartbreak as Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq chose the game to prove his greatness ... Read more
High time for batsmen
With a team composed largely of batsmen out of form, Bangladesh will face an uphill task to draw some blood in the so far disappointing campaign when they meet a buoyant Pakistan in the first Test of the two-match series at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (ZACS) today. Ahead of the Test series the chief ... Read more
Blackout leads Tigers to whitewash
An unexpected power failure took the momentum away from Bangladesh and led them to a 58-run defeat in the third one-day international for a 3-0 whitewash against Pakistan in Chittagong on Tuesday. After restricting Pakistan to 177 runs, Bangladesh appeared to be coasting towards victory as they reached 61-1 when suddenly the floodlights went out ... Read more
Pakistan clinch ODI series 3-0
Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 58 runs in the final one-dayer at Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the port city of Chittagong on Tuesday and clinch the Cool & Cool ODI series 3-0. Batting second, Bangladesh were all out for 119 runs in 38 overs chasing 177 set by the visitors. Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik ... Read more
Charming Chittagong inspires Tigers
Bangladesh face Pakistan in final one-dayer today Bangladesh will take inspiration from their recent luck in the port city and the century of Nasir Hossain in their previous game when they face Pakistan in the third and final one-dayer at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury stadium in Chittagong today. The match has only academic interests left after ... Read more