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.

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

Besides, university-based student organisations run their activities from the TSC buildings.

Sixteen trains on different routes of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) eastern zone have remained closed over the last decade due to multiple crises, mainly a shortage of coaches.

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.

Many residents in certain areas of the port city have been suffering from diarrhoea for a week. A good number of those affected have been admitted to hospitals due to deteriorating health conditions.

The government has authorised Chattogram Medical College (CMC) to open a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) course, which would greatly benefit local medical students.

Work for Package-1 of Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWasa) has started with an aim to create a pollution-free city for residents.

If there’s one thing that can be said for certain about the residents of Chattogram, it’s that they love “shutki” or as they’d like to call it, “funi”.

With an aim to provide the best cardiac care facilities to people from all walks of life, a specialised heart hospital under the Heart Foundation is going to start its journey in Chattogram by September.

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) students have shined yet again in the annual international students’ concrete project competition of the American Concrete Institute, by bagging the second runners-up position.

Illegal structures are springing up along the port city’s Patenga sea beach ignoring the directive of Chattogram Development Authority (CDA).

Sitakunda Eco Park is now the home to 11 baby pythons, born in an incubator at the Chattogram Zoo.

It is indeed a fiesta of foliage and plant. A riot of colours; colours of flowers and fruits -- that come in all shades and hues.

Mohammed Saikat (16), a survivor of the recent Mirsharai tragedy, is undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital. His pain is yet to recede, while the trauma lingers on.

With 24 selected images, Anurup Kanti Das’ maiden solo exhibition titled “Whiteness of the North” was recently held at Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Gallery of Zilla Shilpakala Academy, Chattogram, for the visual art lovers of the port city.

Chattogram Zoo has been graced with the birth of four white tiger cubs, born to tiger couple Raj and Pori.

Pintu Das (41), a labourer in the port city’s Aturar Dipu area, was killed by a speeding train while crossing the railway tracks near Pahartoli Railway Station on July 29.