A parliamentary body today (October 31, 2022) recommended not constructing the proposed hospital in Chattogram Railway Building (CRB) area.

Halda is an important habitat for the endangered freshwater Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista gangetica). Dolphins are an integral part of the area’s ecosystem and their conservation is vital to the survival of a wide range of aquatic and endangered species, including turtles, gharials and otters.

Thirty students of East Delta University volunteered to remove garbage such as plastic bottles, polythene bags and similar items from the Patenga Sea Beach area on Sunday morning.

A three-day international photo exhibition featuring Sufi rituals was held at Chattogram District Shilpakala Academy in the port city between Thursday and Saturday.

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.

The river Karnaphuli is considered to be what holds the port city, ie the life of Chattogram.

A three-day documentary film festival titled Liberation Docfest Chattogram 2022 was held in the port city, aiming to promote young film makers at the district level. The festival ended on Saturday.

Once upon a time, the country’s port city was celebrated for its lush vegetation and green hills. However, in the last three decades, the city has already lost half its greenery to unchecked, unplanned urbanisation.

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.

The first river-based resource centre of Bangladesh was inaugurated on Sunday at the bank of Halda river in Chattogram.

Since last July, entrepreneur  Sujan Barua, a father of two, has been campaigning against noise pollution in different areas of Chattogram.

Triumphing over 70 institutions across the country, Cantonment English School and College  of Chattogram (CESC) has become the champions (College category) of the “Inter Cantonment English Medium Schools & Colleges Parliamentary Debate Competition-2022”.

Even though the historic Laldighi Maidan was renovated over a year ago, the ground hasn’t been officially reopened, depriving children of a place to play.

Train services between Chattogram and Dohazari will resume next month amid widespread demands of commuters following two years of Covid induced closure.

As many as 81 species of plants on Karnaphuli riverbanks are in danger of going extinct over the next few decades due to the dumping of industrial wastes and other forms of pollution. 

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.

Only two years after its reconstruction, the Ghoramora embankment in Sitakunda’s Sonaichhari Union collapsed. Now, over 25,000 people in five villages are passing their days amid fear.