Sifayet Ullah

Both the rail crossing gateman and the microbus driver are responsible for the train-microbus collision at the Mirsarai Borotakia rail crossing that killed 13 people, a probe committee has found.

Illegal structures are springing up along the port city’s Patenga sea beach ignoring the directive of Chattogram Development Authority (CDA).

It is indeed a fiesta of foliage and plant. A riot of colours; colours of flowers and fruits -- that come in all shades and hues.

Although the demand for railway tickets on the Chattogram-Sylhet route has been increasing every year, the authorities of Bangladesh Railway could not add a single passenger train to the route in the last two decades.

The long-awaited Kalurghat Rail-cum-Road Bridge Project of Bangladesh Railway has been delayed by four years even before the work began, due to its incomplete architectural design.

Mun Tanji was waiting for a human haulier at the port city’s Chawkbazar intersection yesterday morning. Whenever one arrived after every 10 minutes, the college student rushed to board it, but to no avail amid the huge crowd.

Mohammed Saikat (16), a survivor of the recent Mirsharai tragedy, is undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital. His pain is yet to recede, while the trauma lingers on.

Pintu Das (41), a labourer in the port city’s Aturar Dipu area, was killed by a speeding train while crossing the railway tracks near Pahartoli Railway Station on July 29.

The locomotive driver of the Mahanagar Prabhati train, which hit a microbus on Friday morning killing 11, said he had no time to pull the brakes.

The coaching centre fell silent after it lost 10 teachers and students in a train-microbus collision in Chattogram's Mirsharai yesterday (July 29, 2022).

A dolphin was found dead in the Halda river in Chattogram on July 21.

To expand a nearby road, the authorities of Karnaphuli tunnel have filled up a large part of “Golden Beach” canal in Chattogram city’s Patenga area. The canal now acts as a narrow drain, which has led to waterlogging.

Chattogram residents will have to wait further for the port city’s first elevated expressway as Chattogram Development Authority (CDA), the project’s implementing agency, sought a two-year extension due to a lack of coordination with other government agencies.

Despite objections from homeowners, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) will start collecting holding tax based on property rent, instead of area. This new method will reportedly raise the tax by many times.

Six officials of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have made trips to the US and Turkey since May 12, when the government issued a restriction on foreign trips of government officials as part of an austerity measure.

Authorities of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) east zone have closed down 46 of the 228 railway stations due to severe workforce shortage. This has resulted in delays of over 30 minutes on different routes of the zone.

Red Chittagong cattle, a native cattle breed reared predominantly in Chattogram, is facing extinction for many reasons, especially due to hybridisation, according to experts.

Although the demand for railway tickets on the Dhaka-Chattogram route has been increasing every year, the Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities could not add a single passenger train to the country’s most important route in the last seven years.

In 2000, Chattogram City Corporation constructed a four-storey building in the middle of Chaktai canal, one of the key drainage channels of the port city, without clearance from Chattogram Development Authority (CDA).

Chattogram’s livestock production has nearly doubled over the last 5 years -- thanks to the rising popularity of cattle farming.