Pranabesh Chakraborty

Within a few days, the 15km embankment from Patenga to Sagorika would look like a long forest clearing as the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) keeps on cutting down trees to make way for building a ring road in Chittagong city.

In 1999, Erwan Peron was badly shaken by an oil spill off the Atlantic coast in France. Erika, a fuel oil laden tanker, sank in Atlantic Ocean near the coast of France. The oil spill from the tanker washed up a huge coastline of the country, causing deaths of thousands of marine birds and animals.

“Writings start from silence and the real enemy of writing is talking,” Joy Goswami, an acclaimed contemporary Bangali writer, said as he mixed with readers and literature enthusiasts of the port city at a programme on Friday evening.

People around were just watching as the eight-year-old started to disappear into the canal in Nimtala of Chittagong but then he came in, jumped into the water and rescued the child.

The cases filed each month in Chittagong district overwhelmingly outnumber the ones adjudicated during the period. As the cases pile

A solo art exhibition titled “Khero Khata” featuring the artworks of eminent artist Ahmed Nawaz opened at the auditorium of District Shilpakala Academy on Friday.

When reputed Korean jazz vocalist Woong San with her lucid voice began to render the famous Bangla patriotic song “Ami Banglaye Gaan Gai” of Pratul

It was around 11:00am on the fateful morning of April 17, 1971.

Three days into the oil spill from sunken train wagons in a Boalkhali canal, the local authorities yesterday put an oil-boom in the water

An acute water crisis has been prevailing in Chittagong city for several weeks due to a fall in production by the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa).

With the monsoon here, fear of landslides grip those living in the hill regions, especially on the hillsides.

Since the wee hours of yesterday, there were boatloads of fishermen drifting in the Halda river. They had waited for months because the

Art connoisseurs of the port city experienced an art exhibition by renowned artist Monsur ul Karim at Haatkhola Gallery in Chittagong. The exhibit was organised recently in observance of 116th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Women voters in Chittagong city, about half the total voters, are displeased with electoral manifestos of both the Awami League-

Theatre aficionados of Chittagong city got the taste of an English play with a difference. "Heritage" was staged by the students of Asian University for Women (AUW) at Theatre Institute Chittagong (TIC) auditorium on Friday.

Plagued by perennial problems, Dhaka and Chittagong -- our two major cities -- go to polls on April 28. What will a mayoral hopeful do to solve those problems if elected? How all the modern amenities will be ensured? What is his vision for the future of the city?

BNP-blessed mayoral hopeful M Manjur Alam, who will start his field-level campaign tomorrow, met party grassroots leaders and new

Awami League-backed mayoral aspirant AJM Nasir Uddin has an annual income of over Tk 3.60 crore while his rival BNP-backed

Bringing allegations of violating electoral code of conduct against each other, AJM Nasir Uddin and M Manjur Alam Manju, the Awami

Fame, one of the leading theatre troupes in the city, staged the play “Nawkar Shaytan Malik Hoyran”, an adaptation from the famous