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.

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.

The lone brachytherapy machine at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has been out of order for over three months, forcing cancer patients to suffer.

In honour of the sacrifice of the first Bengali revolutionary nationalist and first Bengali woman who fought against the division of Bengal,Pritilata Waddedar, the government has named a 12km road from Chattogram’s Patiya upazila to Boalkhali upazila after her.

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.

After so many years, the Department of Environment (DoE) has finally taken an initiative to conduct a specialised survey with an aim to protect Chattogram’s hills.

The number of dengue patients is on the rise in Chattogram despite the city corporation regularly conducting anti-mosquito drives.

The deadline to complete the construction of the Chattogram elevated expressway has been extended for two more years. Meanwhile, the immense suffering of the port city residents in their daily commute is to continue.

“Durbar Tarunnya”, a social organisation, has launched a tree plantation campaign in Moghadiya Union under Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram recently to play their part in preserving the environment.

Built at a cost of around Tk 2,675 crore, when the under-construction, 15.2-kilometre Chattogram City Outer Ring Road opened for vehicular movement in 2021, city dwellers and experts believed it would be a blessing for mitigating traffic congestion.

When Arko Dutta, a fourth grader, was returning from school with his mother, he noticed a library near Dr Khastagir Government Girls’ High School in Chattogram’s Jamal Khan intersection.

After witnessing a massive shortfall in revenue because of the pandemic, Bangladesh Railway’s eastern zone has improved its position in the 2021-22 fiscal year.

A new study found that Chattogram city produces 3,000 tonnes of waste every day, of which, 249-tonne is plastic waste.

Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) plans to bring Bayezid-Faujdarhat Link Road under toll system to raise funds for developing and maintaining the six-kilometre road.