FM Mizanur Rahaman

“Today’s children are the leaders of tomorrow’s world’. With an aim to provide the best childhood education to the future leaders, Frobel Play School started its journey of pre-school education in 2003 in port city’s Panchlaish Residential Area. In 2017,

Suvash Chanda Jaldash, now 75 years old, had land, home, and much more in Noakhali’s South Hatia island in the early 90s. With his wife and five children, he had a happy life in the then “Aladi village” in Hatia’s Nalchira union.

Chattogram has become a transit route for wildlife trafficking by poachers and smugglers due to the indifference and lack of proper monitoring of the authorities concerned.

The law enforcers have beefed up security in Chattogram as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, is scheduled to address a rally in the port city today.

The Chittagong University administration is delaying to sue former personal secretary to the vice chancellor and a guard over recruitment irregularity, ignoring a probe committee’s recommendation.

With the beginning of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Chattogram has entered a festive mood with jerseys and flags taking over the markets and footpaths of the port city.

Taking a huge amount of money, a syndicate, of some dishonest Election Commission employees and criminals, has been providing national identity cards to Rohingyas in Chattogram city.

Around 73 percent of the construction work of the 100-kilometre Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail link had been completed by August. But security arrangements for this route are still in limbo, as railway police do not have the required workforce and infrastructure to monitor this line.

Marjina, Mukta and Tania Akhter ended up at state-run Chotomoni Nibash in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila many years ago. The three were so young that they never even got the chance to know their biological parents.

Alleging that the Awami League government has turned the country into a crematorium, the BNP has said there is no alternative to ending its rule.

Criminal activities in Jungle Salimpur and adjacent areas used to make headlines more often than not.

Environmentalists believe that the huge environmental destruction of Jungle Salimpur poses a great threat to the ecosystem as the landscape has seen tremendous changes over the years due to mindless hill cutting.

Ten years ago, Rahima Akhter and her husband migrated to Chattogram from Noakhali and bought a plot in Chhinnomul Bazar of Jungle Salimpur from the Mashiur gang. They paid Tk 30,000 for the land and built a semi-pucca house.

Standing just beside the Fouzdarhat-Bayezid Link Road, Sitakunda’s Bangla Bazar area will welcome any visitor with an abundance of hilly greenery. However, the scene inside the area is not quite as it seems at the first sight.

Villagers in three unions of Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar are living in fear as they heard fresh gunshots and shelling inside Myanmar where a fight between the Myanmar Army and Arakan Army rages on.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police has been preparing detailed lists of leaders holding posts in committees of the BNP and associated bodies. 

Whenever one thinks of a police station, they would imagine police vans sitting outside, ready to roll out. They would think of seized vehicles, piles of documents sitting on the desks and criminals behind bars.

Custom House Chattogram has served a notice to BM Container Depot asking why its private bonded warehouse licence should not be cancelled following the recent deadly explosions and fire inside it.

Investigation into the 18 dubious birth certificates, which were issued hacking the user IDs and passwords of three ward councillor offices under Chattogram City Corporation, has been halted as police did not get any help from the registrar general’s office, despite repeated letters in this regard.

Chattogram Government Railway Police (GRP) has been reeling from the manpower crisis on top of severe work pressure, creating extra pressure on police personnel.