During the 2021 Covid lockdown, Priungshu Roy Chowdhury, a schoolboy from Chattogram, found a productive way to spend his time by learning to sing the national anthems of 120 countries in just eight months.

Defying law, shipbreakers in Chattogram are breaking scrap vessels without obtaining clearance from the Department of Environment (DoE), putting the environment at risk. 

It was early in the morning on a Saturday. The Sun was peeping behind the cloud. The road at Raoshan Hat in Chandanaish upazila was wet due to overnight rain.  

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With the number of patients increasing every day, dengue has already become a menace in Chattogram this month. And if proper actions are not taken, the outbreak threatens to wreak havoc in the region.

Most of the Muslim devotees of the port city are unaware of a hidden gem of Islamic heritage in the heart of the city.  The Kadam Mubarak Mosque, located in Jamal Khan in port city has been carrying the history of the Mughal era. But the most unique and interesting thing about it is that the mosque is believed to have a footprint of the beloved prophet Muhammad (pbuh) for the last 350 years.

“Only God knows how we survived. First, it was the cyclone, and then came the fishing ban, and then another depression. We could only hope for better days soon. But the wait was too long.”

“Due to continuous rain, no buyers are visiting the plant fair for the last four days. We hope to see a good turn-out when the rain recedes,” said Nusrat Jahan Mim, owner of Bagan Bilas Nursery.

Chattogram city dwellers will have to bear the nuisance of sewage pollution in the Karnaphuli and Halda rivers even longer, as the completion deadline for the Sewerage Treatment Plant-1 project has been extended.

Two service centres of Chattogram Metropolitan Police in the port city have remained closed for months following poor response from service seekers.

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“I don’t have to waste hours in traffic anymore thanks to the newly-constructed Bakalia Access Road,” said Sajeda Akter, a school teacher, who used to get late for work regularly due to gridlock at Kotwali intersection while travelling from Chattogram’s Karnaphuli upazila to the city’s Chawkbazar.

To save the Karnaphuli from encroachers, the Chattogram City Corporation and district administration have jointly initiated a project to build a park on the river bank in the port city’s Firingi Bazar area.

A home to around two lakh people, South Pahartali area under ward-1 within Chattogram City Corporation is grappling with a severe lack of civic amenities.

On January 30, 2020, Chattogram City Corporation inaugurated the port city’s first escalator footbridge, only to shut down its operations indefinitely after the next couple of months following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Tulatoli area under Chattogram’s Sitakunda used to boast a lush green forest, home to numerous trees.

For the last three years, Enamul Haque, a resident of Halishahar’s Chowdhury Para in the port city, has been suffering from waterlogging.