FM Mizanur Rahaman

Due to frequent killings and shrinking of their habitat in the absence of concrete protective measures by the government, wild elephants face serious threats to their survival in the country.

While people all over the country have been waiting in line for hours to get Covid-19 jabs during the mass vaccination campaign, which began three days ago, many in the port city have been found getting the facilities illegally at their homes.

Unidentified miscreants issued 18 dubious birth registration certificates in Chattogram, after accessing the server when it was disabled for upgradation work.

Activities of river police in Chattogram region are being severely hampered due lack of manpower and water vessels.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against six people, including a former ward councillor of Chattogram City Corporation and three Rohingyas, for issuing citizenship and birth certificates to Rohingyas.

A constable was held hostage at the Hathazari madrasa to force the authorities to release the bodies of four people, killed during the March 26 mayhem, without autopsies, according to a case document.

Investigators of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have now sent an official letter to local offices of a United Nations agency, seeking information about a former employee, in connection with the gruesome murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter.

A police probe found that instigation by outsiders, irregular payment of salaries and sanitation problems fuelled labour unrest in the SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, leading to a clash on April 17 that left seven workers dead in police firing.

Former superintendent of police Babul Akter, plaintiff in a murder case over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016, will be produced before court today after being arrested in another case filed over the same incident.

Soon after the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter sent Tk three lakh to prime accused Kamrul Islam Sikdar Musa via his business partner, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said in its final reports submitted to Chattogram Court on Wednesday.

A rape case has been filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, in Chattogram, said police.

A dispute over land has heated up between son of a former minister and a former Chhatra League activist, in the port city.

Mufti Harun Izhar, education and cultural affairs secretary of the now-dissolved central committee of Hefazat-e-Islam, has been arrested over the violence during the Indian prime minister’s visit last month.

Rights activists have expressed concern about a fair investigation into the case filed over police firing during demonstrations by workers of SS Power I Plant project in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila eight days ago.

Tonnes of rice get imported by the government from different countries to keep prices stable in Bangladesh’s market, but syndicates of unscrupulous Chattogram food officials, transport contractors, and local rice traders misappropriate the rice in different ways to later sell it at higher prices.

Police had fired 332 shots and four teargas shells during demonstrations by agitating workers of SS Power I Plant in Gandamara area of Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila on Saturday, which left five workers dead and at least 21 people injured.

Workers of SS Power I Plant in Chattogram said long-simmering discontent over hygienic and accommodation conditions, lack of pay hikes and payment of arrears led to Saturday’s protests which left five people killed and dozens of workers with bullet injuries.

Five workers of an under-construction coal-fired power plant were killed and at least 21 others injured during a clash with police in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning.

With the help of Bangladeshi carriers, who worked in Dubai, an international gold smuggling syndicate has been smuggling gold bars to Bangladesh, found a recent investigation by Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

A row has been created after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) implicated two tax officials of Chattogram in the charge sheet of a case filed against a sub-inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and his wife for amassing wealth worth Tk 1.38 crore from unknown sources.