Arun Bikash Dey

Many Awami League (AL) supported councillor candidates for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls are violating the electoral code of conduct.

The furious clash between activists of two councillor candidates at Mogoltuli Mogpukur Par area in the port city on Tuesday evening has made both the city dwellers and law enforcing agencies worried over further clashes in different areas ahead of polls day.

With Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election candidates campaigning daily in different areas since Friday, the port city has taken a festive look. Posters of mayoral and councillor candidates can be seen all around, reminding voters that election day is approaching.

Supporters of Awami League and BNP mayoral candidates are not maintaining health guidelines, as they started campaigning on Friday, ahead of January 27 Chattogram City Corporation election, creating a possibility of worsening the Covid-19 situation.

Many Awami League rebel candidates for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) councillor race are determined to contest the polls, despite the party’s strict order of not doing so.

Antigen testing for Covid-19 has started in Chattogram from Tuesday on a test basis. Initially, the service is limited only to Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) laboratory at Fauzderhat, said officials of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Eminent citizens and different sociocultural and students’ organisations in Chattogram city have been organising demonstrations, demanding the government take steps to protect a historic structure, a part of which was demolished by a group of people.

On a visit to Prabartak intersection in the port city last weekend, Chittagong University student Apu Saha became shocked to see the battered state of the sculpture Rupali Guitar, which had been installed in remembrance of the late and great musician Ayub Bachchu.

The stray dogs at Chattogram’s Sadarghat area had a different kind of day yesterday.

The Chattogram Zila Parishad has installed a new sculpture in Sitakunda as a tribute to martyred Freedom Fighters and members of Indian allied forces.

Considering the ongoing coronavirus situation, many mayoral candidates including the one endorsed by BNP are not happy with Election Commission’s decision to hold Chattogram City Corporation election at the end of January.

As Bangladesh completes its 49th year of being a sovereign country, there still remains a gap in preserving the memories of many who were martyred during the war.

Although people have started wearing face masks on the main thoroughfares in the wake of actions, they are still ignoring the health guideline on the lanes and by-lanes in Chattogram city.

Hefajat chief Junaid Babunagari yesterday threatened to pull down and destroy all the sculptures no matter which party puts those up.

On November 14, one of Chattogram Zoo’s tigresses gave birth to three cubs. Initially, this was met with great optimism for zoo staffers, but it soon turned sour as two of the cubs died after their mother refused to nurse them.

The authorities of Premier University Chattogram have begun demolishing two structures of the educational institution that were built on a canal in the port city at Prabarttak intersection around 20 years ago.

Health researchers in Chattogram have initiated a project to analyse antibodies of the district’s residents who had tested positive for Covid-19.

With less than a week left to go for Durga Puja, idol artisans are putting the finishing touches to their figures of Goddess Durga and her sons and daughters -- Kartik, Ganesh, Sharashwati and Laxmi.

Three years have passed since BCL leader of Chattogram city unit Sudipto Biswas was brutally killed, his family still awaits justice.

Fahim Hasan, a student of Chattogram College, uses face mask whenever he goes out. But every time he is outside, he sees a large number of people on roads and public transports ignoring health guidelines amid the pandemic.