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Eid shopping frenzy grips Ctg

5 March 2026, 00:00 AM
With Eid-ul-Fitr drawing closer, Chattogram’s shopping malls and traditional markets are buzzing with eager crowds. From the fancy outlets of Nasirabad to the narrow wholesale lanes of Teri Bazar, shoppers are hunting for the perfect festive clothing.
5 March 2026, 00:00 AM
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Malls, markets abuzz with crowds as Eid shopping frenzy grips Ctg

4 March 2026, 20:59 PM
This year, the demand is high for outfits with exotic names and intricate designs
4 March 2026, 20:59 PM
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Forced to travel 250km for treatment

28 February 2026, 03:53 AM
Critical burn patients in the port city are being forced to travel over 250km to Dhaka for life-saving treatment due to a severe lack of facilities in Chattogram.
28 February 2026, 03:53 AM
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Critical burn patients forced to travel 250km to Dhaka as Ctg lacks ICU facilities

26 February 2026, 12:22 PM
China-aided burn unit still 18 months away
26 February 2026, 12:22 PM
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‘Can’t go home empty-handed’

26 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Shefali Akhter (pseudonym), a homemaker and resident of the Jamal Khan area in Chattogram, looked anxious as she clutched her phone, waiting for a call while standing in a long queue on Momin Road on Monday.
26 February 2026, 00:00 AM
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Gas blast during sehri leaves family shattered

24 February 2026, 03:12 AM
The dining table of a second-floor flat in Halima Manjil was still set with dishes and leftovers from sehri when a sudden explosion tore through the apartment in Halishahar, Chattogram, early yesterday.
24 February 2026, 03:12 AM
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Update / Blast in Ctg's Halishahar kills woman, injures eight family members

23 February 2026, 15:00 PM
Explosion reportedly caused by gas leak
23 February 2026, 15:00 PM
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Ctg to have 2.2km cycling track on the Airport Road

20 February 2026, 00:00 AM
In a first for the port city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has initiated construction of a dedicated cycling track along the scenic Airport Road.
20 February 2026, 00:00 AM

Patients suffer as MRI service halted in CMCH for 2 weeks

Sujit Dey, a patient hailing from Patiya upzila in Chattogram, came to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of his legs as he suffers from an arterial disease.
29 May 2022, 18:00 PM
7th Bangladesh Jubo League congress

JL to hold council after over a decade

Enthusiasm has grown among the leaders and activists of Jubo League in Chattogram over the long-expected council scheduled to start from today.
27 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Port city drowns after drizzle

A drizzle in the morning was all it took to submerge Chattogram city’s low-lying areas yesterday, resulting in residents, commuters and pedestrians having to deal with muddy and waterlogged roads.
21 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘Rain or shine, our woes linger on’

Residents of West Bakalia (ward 17) in the port city are the worst sufferers of waterlogging during monsoon every year.
17 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Risks increase, initiatives don’t

Accidents and casualties caused by open canals and drains are still fresh in the memories of port city residents. Yet the
17 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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BNP moves to strengthen party at Ctg grassroots

To strengthen the party ahead of the next parliamentary election, BNP has focused on strengthening the grassroots in Chattogram by forming new committees in various organisational units.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Country’s first research centre to study rivers

The journey of Halda River Research Laboratory started on August 20, 2017 in two abandoned rooms at the Department of Zoology at Chittagong University (CU).
10 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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23.5mm rainfall submerges port city

Residents of Chattogram city, especially office-goers, had to endure flooded streets yesterday, on the first working day after Eid-ul-Fitr, following torrential rain in Chattogram city since morning.
5 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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23.5mm rainfall triggers waterlogging in Chattogram city streets

Office-goers had to endure flooded streets on the first working day after Eid-ul-Fitr holiday today (May 5, 2022)following torrential rain in Chattogram city since morning.
5 May 2022, 10:32 AM

Commuters forced to pay extra fare

Nahida Khanam, along with her seven-year-old son, came to a makeshift bus terminal at Karnaphuli Shah Amanat Bridge area in the port city on Wednesday afternoon. The plan was to go to her village home in Patiya upazila.
29 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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RHD cutting down 622 trees for road expansion

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the situation of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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RHD to cut down over 600 trees for road expansion in Ctg

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the scenario of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.
22 April 2022, 10:46 AM

‘It was to establish supremacy’

The two factions of Jubo League had clashed in Patiya, Chattogram on Tuesday to establish supremacy, said political leaders and locals.
21 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Port city in festive mood

With Eid-ul-Fitr inching closer, sales in different shopping malls and roadside markets in the port city are picking up.
19 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Childhood lost Child labour in transport sector rampant in port city

Fifteen-year-old Md Musa is one of the many child transport workers in Chattogram, employed as a helper of a human haulier on the Chawkbazar to Halishahar Baro Pool route.
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Where differences bow to brotherhood

Hundreds of fasting Muslims, sitting on the floors, waiting to break their fast with the call for evening prayer -- such has been the everyday scene at the port city’s Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque during the month of Ramadan for over a decade.
12 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Garbage from canal left on road for days

The pile of waste that the authorities had lifted from Chaktai canal has just been lying on the road at Chawkbazar Phooltola area for around a week, making locals and pedestrians suffer.
8 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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A 100-year-old inn lost in time

The story of Jagat Chandra Mahajaner Panthoshala starts around 100 years ago. Those were the times when locals mostly travelled on foot or boat.
5 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Mega-project brings mega miseries

Waterlogging on the port city’s Ujir Ali Shah Lane has made the lives of residents miserable for the last three months, as Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) temporarily blocked Chaktai canal to build a retaining wall.
1 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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VENOM: let there be cure

Venomous snakes. In boxes, inside a laboratory.
29 March 2022, 18:00 PM

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