Sifayet Ullah

Sheikh Hasina Water Treatment Plant-2 (SHWTP-2) of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) will go into operation formally on Wednesday (March 16, 2022), raising the total production of CWASA to 500 million litres per day.

The back-strap handloom, popularly known as “Bain” loom, is a centuries-old textiles craft of the indigenous people of Khagrachhari district.

When he was younger, Mohammad Hossain of Lohagara in Chattogram went to Saudi Arabia to change his fate. Despite working hard in a grocery shop for years, he ultimately failed to do this, and barely survived on a meagre income.

Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) is buying one kilo of dressed broiler chicken for Tk 320, when it’s being sold for around Tk 250 in the port city’s kitchen markets.

Thanks to the authorities’ conservation initiatives, the population of the endangered Bostami turtle has been increasing.

The Daborkhali Canal in Chattogram’s Ichakhali union is at the risk of dying after Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (Bepza) has filled up around a two-km stretch of the critical water body to set up an economic zone.

It’s about 10 feet tall in height. At first sight, it may look like a wooden pitcher, but it’s actually bamboo that came to Bangladesh’s soil from Vietnam. This particular species of bamboo is called “Ghoti”.

At least 22 families, who lost almost everything to a devastating fire in Sonaichhari Jelepara in Sitakunda upazila, have been living under the open sky for the last eleven days in the chilling winter cold.

To preserve these natural bounty, the government has chalked up a special plan for the beach, which falls under Sitakunda upazila, by declaring it a protected area.

The managing director of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA), AKM Fazlullah, wants his basic salary to be increased 2.5 times -- from Tk 1.80 lakh to Tk 4.50 lakh -- and has sent a letter to the CWASA board in this regard.

Fifty-nine years after Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) was formed, Port City residents are finally getting a central sewerage system.