Chittagong

Chattogram Bureau : Irregularities were reported in the sale of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) products in Chawkbazar Ward of Chattogram city. Complaints have been raised that TCB dealers are selling the products outside the card holders without giving the products. As a result many of the card holders returned empty handed. Dealer Biswajit Dev (Bhanu) started selling TBC products in a truck in front of the west gate of Parade Corner recently. However, many card holders returned empty-handed after...

Chattogram Bureau : Receptions to the talented students and the installation ceremony of Chattogram divisional committee of Bangladesh Kindergarten Association was held at Hotel Paramount International auditorium last Saturday with its President SAM Lutfur Rahman in the chair. Alhaj Md Mohiuddin Bachchu MP, member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education Ministry, graced the occasion as chief guest. Central chief advisor of Bangladesh Homoeopathic Parishad, Chattogram divisional chief advisor of BKA and chief editor and publisher of Homoeo Chetona Principal...

Chattogram Bureau : The reconstruction of buildings and facilities of the Chattogram Customs House hit a roadblock as the Chattogram Port, the landowner, demanded that the customs authorities clear unpaid rent for over six decades first. According to the Port Authority Act, the customs house is obligated to pay annual rent for an 8.33-acre plot of land at the port on which it was built in 1960. However, over the course of 63 years, customs has not made a single...

Chattogram Bureau : Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury commented that the communication system of Chattogram is being arranged to keep pace with population growth and increasing industrialisation. The Mayor made this comment while inspecting the ongoing development activities in North Agrabad, South Central Halishahar, Patenga and Gosaildanga wards of the city on Monday. The leaders of the Karnaphuli Market Shop Owners Association of Ward No 24 thanked Councilor Nazmul Haque Duke and Zaheda Begum Poppy and said...

Chattogram Bureau : Bangladesh Railway Staff and Sramik Sangham Samiti (Bangladesh Railway Running Staff and Employees’ Association) has said that the movement of the shuttle train is returning to normal after being stopped for almost 60 hours due to the injury of a student in the shuttle train. Shafiqul Alam, publicity secretary of the organization, said, “We have spoken to the university authorities. We had 6-point demands. Due to the assurance that it will be fulfilled, the train movement will...

Chattogram Bureau : Three people have been arrested with 4000 liters of stolen diesel from Kathghar area under Patenga police station of the Port City. The arrestees are – Md Badsha (37), Md Abu Hanif (34) and Md Al-Amin (39). RAB-7 senior assistant director Tapas Karmakar told media that last Saturday a temporary check post was set up in Kathghar area and the vehicle was searched based on a tip-off that smugglers were coming from Alankar area of the city...

Chattogram Bureau : Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury commented that the health department of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) is being revamped to improve the quality of public health in the city. Last Thursday in the chief guest’s speech at CCCs doctors’ coordination meeting, the mayor said, “As the only city corporation in Bangladesh, we provide health and education services. Immediately after taking charge as mayor, I took steps to organize the health department. The CCC’s health department has played an important...

Chattogram Bureau : Custom House of Chattogram on Saturday found rice, shemai and spices in a Thailand-bound shipment of ready-made garments (RMG) from the Chattogram port. The undeclared products were found in an export consignment of Jahanara Trading Corporation, a Chattogram-based livestock exporting company. Badruzzaman Munshi, deputy commissioner of Chattogram Custom House, said, “C&F agent MR Express Limited submitted a bill of export on behalf of Jahanara Trading Corporation for export to Thailand on 7 September. According to the declaration,...

Chattogram Bureau : Bangladesh Railway Staff and Sramik Sangham Samiti (Bangladesh Railway Running Staff and Employees’ Association) has said that the movement of the shuttle train is returning to normal after being stopped for almost 60 hours due to the injury of a student in the shuttle train. Shafiqul Alam, publicity secretary of the organization, said, “We have spoken to the university authorities. We had 6-point demands. Due to the assurance that it will be fulfilled, the train movement will...

Chattogram Bureau : Three people have been arrested with 4000 liters of stolen diesel from Kathghar area under Patenga police station of the Port City. The arrestees are – Md Badsha (37), Md Abu Hanif (34) and Md Al-Amin (39). RAB-7 senior assistant director Tapas Karmakar told media that last Saturday a temporary check post was set up in Kathghar area and the vehicle was searched based on a tip-off that smugglers were coming from Alankar area of the city...