Chittagong

Chattogram Bureau : Chattogram Medical College (CMC) Hospital and Chattogram General Hospital have high capacity magnetising resonance imaging or MRI machines to serve the patients of Greater Chattogram. But two hospital machines have been lying idle for years. Out of this, services have been closed for four years at General Hospital and for one year at CMC Hospital. The concerned hospital authorities said that letters have been circulated several times for the operation of the two machines, but there has...

Chattogram Bureau :The four-day Rehab Chattogram Fair-2023, titled ‘Dream Housing Green Country, Lal Sabujer Bangladesh,’ is goint to start from Thursday (February 23) at the Port City’s hotel Radisson Blu. The fair will continue till February 26.Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Jabed will inaugurate the Rehab Fair. Mayor of Chattogram City Corporation and freedom fighter Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Chairman of Chattogram Development Authority M Zahirul Alam Dubash, President of Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industries Mahbubul Alam will be present as...

Chattogram Bureau :Sufi Mohammad Mizanur Rahman is the leader of PHP family, one of the country’s industrial groups. Sufi style of simple living made this leading industrialist of the country unique. He was awarded Ekushey Padak, the country’s highest honor during his lifetime. Along with business, he has been contributing to social service and education. After the independence, Sufi Mizanur Rahman left the bank job and started business in Chattogram. After that, he built 33 institutions one by one in...

Chattogram Bureau :Even two weeks ago, the price of salt at the field level was Tk500, while it was Tk570. Tk260 in the field and Tk340 at the mill level in a span of 15 days. Marginal farmers are blaming the mill owner syndicate for this. Stakeholders complain that the correct picture of salt production in the country is hidden. The big mill owners of the country, including Dhaka, Narayanganj were looking for opportunities to import salt from abroad. But...

Chattogram Bureau :Like China’s industrial city Shanghai, Chattogram will be ‘one city to town’ – the dream of the people of the port city for the past decade is now coming true. The massive development work that is going on in Patenga and Anwara areas through the construction of tunnels touching the bottom of Karnaphuli has opened the doors of immense possibilities for the people of Anwara upazila on the shores of the Bay of Bengal.However, those concerned say that...

Chattogram Bureau :So far, 117 ships have unloaded goods at the jetty of the coal-based power plant built next to the country’s first deep sea port construction project in Matarbari of Maheshkhali upazila. Chattogram port has earned Tk6 crore 84 lakh as a result of these ships being docked at the jetty. According to JICA’s preliminary survey, Matarbari deep sea port will be able to accommodate 16 metres deep and 2.5 metres long vessels with a total of 8,000 single...