Arun Bikash Dey

The local administration has expressed helplessness as if it did not have the capacity to prevent the loss of lives in Friday's landslide at Jungle Salimpur in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

It is a glaring example of how ineffective measures by the local administration and people's carelessness can lead to loss of lives. Only five weeks ago, rain-induced landslides killed over 170 people in the hill districts, 120 of them in Rangamati alone. Such a high death toll should have been an eye-opener both for the administration as well as for those living precariously in the hill slopes. But yesterday's deaths of five people in a Sitakunda landslide are evidence that last month's warning fell on deaf ears.

A departmental probe body yesterday said there was 63.1 tonnes of excess rice in Chittagong silos, a day after the regional controller

As many as 155 tonnes of rice seized in the port city while being smuggled out of government depots was packed in jute sacks bearing the insignia of the Directorate General of Food. The directorate, however, claimed the rice seized from seven trucks was not theirs.

Health workers had vaccinated children on a regular basis in Sitakunda's Tripura Para but they stopped visiting the remote hilly area

Sixteen more children in Sitakunda's Tripura Para became sick and were admitted to hospital yesterday, but doctors say the 68 other local children, hospitalised earlier with similar symptoms, were recovering.

Six more children fell sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para and were admitted to hospital immediately, but 51 children, hospitalised with similar symptoms, were apparently getting well.

Seven more children became sick yesterday in Sitakunda's Tripura Para where nine others died this week showing similar symptoms.

Nine children have died, showing similar symptoms, in Tripura Para of Sitakunda in the last four days.

The waterlogging in Chittagong city is mostly a man-made situation caused by unplanned urbanisation, destruction of water bodies,

Residents of the port city once again -- fifth time over the past three months -- found themselves waterlogged following nearly 12 hours of incessant monsoon rain.

The fish trading hub of Chittagong has suffered a decline in sales as agents (arotdar) have split up over shifting the market from Fisheryghat to a new place.

Prices of vegetables in city kitchen markets have jumped on an average Tk 30 a kg in a span of one week.

Motif artisans of Bihari Colony in Chittagong city's Jhautala area are working round the clock to meet the demand of

The incomplete BNP Chittagong city unit committee of three members which was declared by the central committee

Tragedies have stalked Roma Chowdhury all her life.

Production of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWasa) has decreased as the level of turbidity in the

Residents of most of the areas in Chittagong city and at least 10 upazilas of the district are affected by waterlogging resulted from

Buses lie idle on one side of a road, while vehicles stop abruptly to take in passengers in front of the entrance to a bridge on the other side.

Newlywed Dipak Nandi and his wife went to Jatisangha Park (UN Park) recently on a Friday. As soon as the couple entered the place in the port city's Panchlaish area, they were welcomed by heaps of mud and scattered garbage instead of greeneries and open space. To them, the place looked more like a landfill.