FM Mizanur Rahaman

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.

Villagers in three unions of Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar are living in fear as they heard fresh gunshots and shelling inside Myanmar where a fight between the Myanmar Army and Arakan Army rages on.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police has been preparing detailed lists of leaders holding posts in committees of the BNP and associated bodies. 

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.

Custom House Chattogram has served a notice to BM Container Depot asking why its private bonded warehouse licence should not be cancelled following the recent deadly explosions and fire inside it.

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.

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

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.

The activities of assistant revenue officer (ARO) of Chattogram Custom House, who allegedly received a death threat from abroad for disclosing information about liquor consignments, were “questionable”, according to police.

Taking 20 recommendations of the probe committee that investigated the BM Container Depot blast into cognisance, Cabinet Division has issued letters to ministries and departments concerned, asking them to take action following the suggestions and ensure punishment.

Musba Ahmed Hisham was scheduled to fly, after his secondary School Certificate examination, to his mother in Canada who lives there with his sister. Even, all the procedures have been made so that Hisham could easily move there.

An official of Chattogram Custom House has reportedly received a death threat from abroad, after he disclosed information about seized liquor consignments, which were illegally imported using false declaration.

Once upon a time, Chattogram’s cinema halls used to buzz with audience. The Eids were the most festive seasons for film lovers across all classes of the port city, which had as many as 35 cinemas that used to release Bangla films regularly.

Chittagong University authorities yesterday expelled four Bangladesh Chhatra League activists for their involvement in the sexual harassment of two female students on the campus in September last year.

Four Chhatra League men were among the five arrested by Rab yesterday on charges of sexually assaulting a female student on Chittagong University campus last week.

Those who sexually assaulted a female student on Chittagong University campus on July 17 night are members of Bangladesh Chhatra League, said police sources and CU BCL insiders.

With an aim to provide safety and security to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under Karnaphuli River, Chattogram Airport and different economic zones in Anwara upazila, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) placed a proposal to form new police lines in Karnaphuli area.