Though floodwaters are receding, marks of devastation are apparent in the port city of Chittagong. Some 50km of roads across 41 wards of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and crops on over 50,000 ...

A Pedestrian walks through flooded roads in South Chittagong, Bangladesh, in high-level water. "Where do we go now? 25 years ago I lost my home and came to this city for livelihood. I came to this ...

DHAKA, August 6, 2017 – The government of Bangladesh today signed an additional $47.50 million financing agreement with the World Bank to continue construction of new water infrastructure in ...

Relentless heavy rainfall across Bangladesh caused multiple flash floods in the region, especially impacting the hill tracts ...

The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the earliest of the major Puranas, validated Chittagong’s marginality from South ...

This is the second part of the article that was originally written by Shamsuddin Illius and published by Unbias The News as part of the “Sinking Cities” series. An edited version is republished in two ...

Chittagong is an encouraging place for real estate business, said Saiful Haque, manager (administration) of RF Builders Ltd. “A good number of real estate companies are operating in the port city with ...

Outgoing president for the 2025–2026 service year, Lion Pulin Chandra Gharami, formally handed over charge to the incoming ...

Chittagong, Bangladesh’s coastal port city, could soon see a new apparel zone where non-compliant ready made garment factories will be able to relocate to safer facilities. A major goal of the ...

Jalpaiguri: Indian Railways will bid for the modernisation of Chittagong station in Bangladesh and convert the line from narrow gauge to broad gauge. Linked to the Chittagong port on one side and ...