Sifayet Ullah

Mohammed Sohel, 37, of Golichipa Para in the North Halishahar area of Chattogram city, is planning to work as a transport worker as the four-acre land he used to cultivate as a sharecropper has been turned into a truck terminal and cold storage depot.

The Bangladesh Water Development Board excavated a six-kilometre stretch of Mithachhara canal in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila in 2019 at a cost of Tk 49.96 lakh.

The Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage authority purchased and installed 90,000 water meters at a cost of around Tk 27 crore between 2018 and 2022 to collect bills from consumers properly.

At least 50 farmers in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila are struggling to protect their crops as saline water from the Bay of Bengal constantly inundated their 150 acres of cropland due to four sluice gates being non-functional for eight years.

The newly constructed walkway of Kalurghat Bridge in Chattogram is set to open to the public before Eid-ul-Azha.

Life throws its fair share of curveballs. Apart from death, there is not much one can consider as inevitable in this world.

Chattogram is going to get its first arch bridge, as construction has began on a branch canal of the Karnaphuli river under Patiya upazila in the district.

Shimul Jaladas, 35, used to be like many others in Madarikul Jelepara village -- a fisherman. For generations, his family had cast their nets in the Halda, Bangladesh’s prime breeding ground for carp. But in 2020, a government decree shattered their way of life.

The first consignments of 3,300 pieces of the juicy summer fruit were sent to both countries by local exporter SK International on May 17

On Sunday morning, Liakat Ali and Lutfun Nahar’s home in Burischar of Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila was filled with utter elation as their son Babar Ali, a doctor and already a source of immense pride for the family, became the newest Bangladeshi to summit the Mount Everest.

As many as 5,000 trees weren’t spared the axe in a five-acre forest area in Tulatoli of Chattogram. This lush-green forest was turned into a shipbreaking yard.

The elevated expressway in Chattogram, the first one in the port city, would be opened to traffic soon, said project officials.

A total of 174 fire hydrants set up in different areas of Chattogram city are wearing out as those have been lying idle since installation.

With an aim to mitigate the sufferings of Chattogram residents from waterlogging and traffic congestion, as well as to facilitate tourism, the Chattogram Development Authority borrowed a total of Tk 1,698 crore from the government for implementation of four projects over the past decade.

Despite completing a feasibility study nearly five years ago, the Chattogram-Kaptai rail link project has remained stuck due to a lack of funds.

Demonstrating students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) late last night suspended their protest upon assurances from the university authorities that their major demands would be met.

While working as a day labourer around six years ago, Abul Kashem struggled to make ends meet for his five-member family with his limited income.

Despite repeated notices from the Forest Department, the upazila administration of Pekua upazila in Cox’s Bazar is reportedly going ahead with its plan to sell seized sand, which was illegally extracted from a reserve forest.

While imported shoes have flooded the shoe market in the country and are in high demand, local handmade shoes have still clung to their place in the market.

Defying its own policy, Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) has decided to fell 46 trees, including two century-old rain trees, from the CRB area in the port city to construct a ramp of the Chattogram Elevated Expressway.