FM Mizanur Rahaman

An eyewitness to an alleged shootout between drug peddlers and Rapid Action Battalion-7 in Chattogram's Muradpur area has been missing for almost five months.

Investigators have seized two projectiles from the Boeing 737-800 Biman aircraft, which Polash Ahmed reportedly tried to hijack on February 24 at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport.

At least nine people, including four of a family, are burnt to death and several others injured as a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram city. All the victims were sleeping when the fire ripped through the slum.

During her five days at the hospital, the little girl could not utter a single word, but the bruises on her body and tears rolling down her cheeks bore testament of the unspeakable horror she had gone through.

Conundrum over the identity of a foreign prisoner, who died of AIDS on January 18 while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, remains as the authorities of Chattogram Central Jail are yet to confirm his identity.

Free textbooks for primary and high school students, provided by National Curriculum and Text Book (NCTB) authority, are being sold in port city markets.

A domestic help was allegedly raped by her employer for about two years at his flat in a two-storey building in the city's Halishahar area.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is campaigning secretly in Chattogram city, targeting private university students to recruit fresh operatives, said officials of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.

Some ruling party leaders and activists in Chattogram-4 (Sitakunda) constituency are allegedly not campaigning wholeheartedly due to internal feud between incumbent lawmaker Didarul Alam and upazila Chairman SM Al Mamun.

With an aim to expedite the fight against militancy and terror-related activities, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has established a fully-fledged Counter Terrorism (CT) unit, which is set to be inaugurated today.

Within the month of October, three branches of City Bank in Chattogram saw failed heist attempts. There were marks of attempted forced entry at the vaults of the banks, but no sign of the perpetrator, raising alarm among law enforcers and causing panic among bank authorities.

A sub-inspector of Bayezid Police Station allegedly raped a housewife threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case.

Nine-year-old Nudrat Akter was playing in front of their house in the afternoon of February 3. When afternoon rolled into evening, she was still not home. After hours of searching, the family filed a general diary (GD) with police.

A faction of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh had plotted to carry out subversive activities at the court building of Chattogram, Rab claimed after busting a “militant den” in the district's Mirsarai yesterday.

Despite warning and punitive actions, a section of unscrupulous police personnel have been involved in yaba peddling, raising concerns among the high-ups of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP).

A mother had allegedly turned her son into a yaba peddler so that he could join the “family trade” along with her and her sister.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has formed a cyber crime monitoring cell with an aim to identify virtual troublemakers who spread rumours through instigative posts and videos on different social media platforms to create anarchy, and bring them to book.

As Eid-ul-Azha is knocking on the door, operatives of “molom party” (gang of muggers who put ointment or other substances on victims' eyes causing temporary loss of vision) are becoming active across Chittagong city and surrounding areas, according to police.

Since Friday, many port city residents have been suffering from an acute gas shortage as Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDL) has started its pipeline maintenance work.

A sergeant and a constable of Gazipur traffic police were withdrawn yesterday, after they beat up a bank official in Tongi upazila in the district.