Arun Bikash Dey

At least 50 percent people in Chattogram have developed antibodies naturally against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study conducted by One Health Institute of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU).

A week ago, when his father had a stroke, Md Rafiq was frantically looking for a healthcare facility to admit him, as he had no idea where to go.

Chattogram Medical College Hospital today launched its specialised unit for stroke patients at its Neurology Ward, aiming to provide comprehensive treatment to patients.

On October 4, a dead dolphin washed up on the shores of Hathazari upazila’s North Madarshah Ramdas Munshirhat area.

The attacks on religious minorities, their temples, houses and businesses are parts of a blueprint to force them to leave the country, said Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad.

With prices of daily essentials rapidly increasing, even people from the middle-income group in the port city can now be seen standing in front of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) trucks to buy daily essentials at cheaper rates.

Chattogram is all set to celebrate Durga Puja starting from today, following the Covid-19 health guidelines.

For more than five years, a bunch of young volunteers  in the port city have been hard at work, all for the welfare of strays. Wherever there’s an animal in need -- on the streets, at residential  areas, or even in jungles -- the team gets ready for a rescue  mission.

A section of transport workers of the port city suddenly went on a strike yesterday, making commuters endlessly wait for vehicles. The worker leaders said they were compelled to do so to protest “Police harassment”.

Commuters suffered as a section of transport workers in Chattogram city went for strike today without any prior announcement.

The pandemic has increased students’ dependencies on electronic gadgets and mobile phones, with 68 percent passing two to four hours a day on their mobile phones, nine percent spending that much time in front of a computer screen and eight percent doing so on tablets, according to a recent study.

At least seven people sustained shotgun pellet wounds as “men of a Water Development Board contractor” opened fire during a heated debate with farmers over keeping dredging machinery on their land in Satkania yesterday morning.

At least seven people suffered bullet wounds during a clash between local farmers and SS Dredger, over the latter’s equipment taking up the farmers’ land from Sangu river this morning at Tulatoli village under Charati union of Chattogram’s Satkania upazila.

“Why did I not hold her hand tighter?”

When open sewers in the port city have become a death trap claiming at least four lives in the span of just three months, the authorities concerned stay in a deep slumber instead of taking measures to prevent such deaths.

A university student died after falling into a roadside drain at the port city’s Agrabad Badamtoli area on Monday night. The fourth such death in the last four months, the incident sparked major anger among citizens all over the city.

A whopping 34 percent of annual revenue of Chattogram Wasa simply drips into thin air.

The medicines we are self-prescribing in our efforts to fight off illnesses are actually creating stronger and deadlier germs.

Ever since schools started this week, Jayeeta Talukdar, a tenth-grader at Chattogram city’s Dr Khastagir Government Girls’ High School, has found it difficult to get to school in jam-packed public vehicles during rush hour.

Awami League (AL) leaders in Chattogram are divided over the government’s initiative of building a hospital at the port city’s Central Railway Building (CRB) area.