Arun Bikash Dey

With Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) conducting mobile court drives since August 30 and imposing strict measures on vehicles plying without proper documents or route permits, commuters of the port city are suffering due to a shortage of public transport on city roads.

Octogenarian Nazir Ahmed fell down on the floor of his house at Chandgaon in the port city on August 26, and got hurt in the waist. He was admitted to a private clinic in the city the same day, and was undergoing treatment.

Oli Ullah was holding his one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter in his arms tight while standing in the corner of a road in City Gate area near the port city yesterday morning.

With Eid-ul-Azha just days away, sales in the cattle markets in Chittagong city are gaining momentum as turnouts are getting bigger.

Dr Pradip Kumar Dutta maintains quite a busy schedule.

Private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chittagong withdrew their indefinite strike yesterday noon after causing immense suffering to patients for 20 hours.

An outbreak of hepatitis E has spread to many areas in the city, particularly in Halisahar, in the last few days.

A three-year-old girl who was suffering from cold and sore throat died allegedly due to “wrong treatment” at a private hospital in Chittagong city early yesterday.

An outbreak of Hepatitis E Virus in Chittagong city's Halishahar and Agrabad areas for the last three months has put the lives of the residents at high risk.

At first glance, it might look like a heavily bombarded area pitted with craters. Some of the larger ones are filled with rainwater. A closer look, however, would reveal diggers and labourers rushing at the place close to Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Satkania.

With people of the port city enjoying their Eid holidays, the recreational spots of the city have been abuzz with visitors during the last few days.

It was around 11:00am yesterday.

On the night of August 13 last year, a driver of a container trailer lost control of his vehicle in Port Access Road in Chittagong and it tipped over and fell on a cng-run three-wheeler.

Police allegedly implicated a 60-year man, Samar Krishna Chowdhury, in two cases related to narcotics and arms recovery, after being influenced by a local expatriate man.

The health department in Chittagong seems oblivious to the unhygienic conditions under which iftar items such as chhola, piyaju, beguni, alur chop etc. are produced and sold, causing foodborne diseases.

A private hospital in the port city dumped the body of a newborn "without consent of the guardians" yesterday morning, in an instance of grave professional misconduct.

Residents of the port city are still struggling with the nuisance of mosquitos, even after Chittagong City Corporation's (CCC) recent month-long anti-mosquito drive.

It was the year 2010. After the demise of her parents, six-year-old Nargis Akter found shelter in one of her relatives' house. Yet, 'shelter' was the least of what she had gotten. The ill-fated little girl was compelled to do laborious household work, and often faced physical abuse from those she was living with.

Eleven-year-old Fatema Akter is still in disbelief that her mother is no more, despite watching helplessly as her mother was engulfed by a stampede on Monday.

It was a boy for Suparna Dey.