FM Mizanur Rahaman

Police yesterday stepped up measures to restrict movement of people and vehicles nationwide during the Eid holidays with an aim to curb further spread of the novel coronavirus.

Imagine entering a market in your locality that has essentials like rice, potatoes, vegetables, facemasks, and soaps maintaining social distance, and that too for free!

While the entire country works to contain the spread of coronavirus, drug peddlers are finding ways to dodge law enforcers to continue their business in the port city, even during the lockdown.

Militants who allegedly carried out a bomb blast at a traffic police box of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) in February learned bomb-making online, said Counter Terrorism unit of CMP yesterday.

Thousands of transport workers in the port city are facing financial troubles due to the ongoing government declared shutdown to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.

A group of prisoners in Chattogram Central Jail have made 4000 face masks in last eight days, to be used as a precautionary measure against a possible coronavirus outbreak inside the jail.

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.

The Chattogram district administration and metropolitan police distributed relief materials to 480 poor and low-income families yesterday.

Ensuring Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities for patients remains a major challenge to tackle coronavirus in Chattogram, according to the authorities concerned.

Although somewhat overshadowed by the candidates of Awami League and BNP, five other mayoral aspirants in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls have been conducting their election campaigns in the port city at full strength.

Fearing the spread of coronavirus, students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) are leaving campus and dormitories, despite assurance from authorities of “taking preparations” against it.

Come election time, one thing remains common among all candidates -- using posters for publicity.

Shunning the poster culture in elections, an AL-backed ward councillor candidate in the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election has titled his campaign “Healthy Ward” and is going for a poster-free campaign.

Kazi Shafiqul Islam worked as a reserve officer (RO)-01 at Chattogram District Police Lines for seven years. His tenure was marked by allegations of bribery, promotion business, gross negligence in duties and misbehaviour with his colleagues.

None of the 12 incumbent ward councilors of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) who were deprived of Awami League (AL) nomination withdrew candidacy, although central leaders warned all rebel candidates to do so throughout the day.

Breaking away from conservative societal norms, more and more women are taking control of their vehicles on the roads in Chattogram, both in the city and across the district.

At least 20 people were injured when two groups of Chittagong University’s Bangladesh Chhatra League unit clashed over establishing supremacy at AF Rahman Hall early yesterday.

The Improvised Explosives Device that went off at a traffic police box in Chattogram’s Sholoshahar on Friday was detonated by remote control.

The unidentified perpetrators who carried out the attack at a traffic police box in Chattogram’s Sholoshahar gate-2 on Friday had reconned the area multiple times before, said investigators.

The blast inside a traffic police box which injured three persons including two cops in Chattogram’s Sholoshahar Gate-2 area on Friday night resembles multiple attacks that happened in Dhaka last year.