A three-day documentary film festival titled Liberation Docfest Chattogram 2022 was held in the port city, aiming to promote young film makers at the district level. The festival ended on Saturday.

Once upon a time, the country’s port city was celebrated for its lush vegetation and green hills. However, in the last three decades, the city has already lost half its greenery to unchecked, unplanned urbanisation.

Marjina, Mukta and Tania Akhter ended up at state-run Chotomoni Nibash in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila many years ago. The three were so young that they never even got the chance to know their biological parents.

The river Karnaphuli is considered to be what holds the port city, ie the life of Chattogram.

The first river-based resource centre of Bangladesh was inaugurated on Sunday at the bank of Halda river in Chattogram.

Since last July, entrepreneur  Sujan Barua, a father of two, has been campaigning against noise pollution in different areas of Chattogram.

Triumphing over 70 institutions across the country, Cantonment English School and College  of Chattogram (CESC) has become the champions (College category) of the “Inter Cantonment English Medium Schools & Colleges Parliamentary Debate Competition-2022”.

Even though the historic Laldighi Maidan was renovated over a year ago, the ground hasn’t been officially reopened, depriving children of a place to play.

Train services between Chattogram and Dohazari will resume next month amid widespread demands of commuters following two years of Covid induced closure.

As many as 81 species of plants on Karnaphuli riverbanks are in danger of going extinct over the next few decades due to the dumping of industrial wastes and other forms of pollution. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.