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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

People from low- and middle-income groups in Chattogram have been facing difficult times to maintain their livelihood with the rising prices of daily essentials.

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.

Unbridled sand mining that had been ravaging the reserve forest in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria has slowed down, thanks to the heightened surveillance by the Forest Department.

Guava farmers of south Chattogram region are all smiles as they had a bumper production this year and are now busy collecting, packaging and selling the fruits to traders.

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