Chittagong, Bangladesh News

Agartala, Feb 14: The Indian government will soon start work on a new rail link to Bangladesh that would ease surface transport in the mountainous northeastern states, a railway official said here Tuesday.

The government will install a chord line between Narayanganj and Laksham to reduce railway distance between Dhaka and Chittagong by 80 kilometres, Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta said yesterday.

He was the president of Awami League in Chittagong during Liberation War and later took on the responsibility of Socialist Party Chottogram South Division.

When I joined BSR four and a half years ago and began managing HERproject, I remember wondering how impactful the program could really be.

No periodical maintenance of major bridges and infrastructures has reduced the longevity putting at risks important bridges such as Jamuna, Meghna and Kanchpur bridges and other structures such as highways, experts said.

The government yesterday struck a deal with an Indian company to find out Bangladesh's potential in generating electricity from wind energy.

Dhaka Reporters Unity forms a human chain left, before Jatiya Press Club in the capital while journalists of Chittagong form another right, before Chittagong Press Club yesterday demanding immediate arrest of and exemplary punishment to the murderers of the journalist couple, Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.Photo: STAR The journalists from different ... (more)

The BNP acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has called upon every conscious citizen of the country to shun communalism and religious dogmatism and keep the nation united.

From reliable sources I have received information that the local police were directed by the top level of the government to allow the tension turned into violence.

R: Chittagong Club President SM Abu Tayeb, economist Mainul Islam, folk musician Abdul Gafur Hali, Chattagram Samity President Rezaul Hoque Moshtaque, Pacific Jeans Managing Director M Nasir Uddin, former caretaker government adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman, Chittagong University Vice-Chancellor Anwarul Azim Arif, Prof Emeritus Jamal Nazrul Islam, ... (more)

The district administration clamped section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on Hathazari upazila banning rallies or processions with effect from 5:00pm on Friday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Election Commission has been reconstituted by taking opinions from all parties, for the first time in the country's history.

A half-day strike enforced by Islami Chhatra Shibir in the port city ended amid arrests of at least eight protesters but it could hardly disrupt city life on Thursday.

A four-day 'Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh Fair-2012' began on Wednesday on the Tennis Court premises of Chittagong Club in the port city.

Expressing indignation at the capital market, several MPs on Monday demanded that parliament pause its usual business to allow discussions on the stock market and state of economy.

The growth of the nascent sleeping bags sub-sector is set to face difficulties as the item was taken off the list of duty-free exports to the US in December last year, said industry insiders.

Music enthusiasts of the port city were engrossed in the melodic notes of classical music at a two-day long classical music soiree, held at Theatre Institute Chittagong on February 2 and 3. Sadaranga Uchchanga Sangeet Parishad Bangladesh arranged the programme, titled '15th National Classical Music Conference', that featured instrumental and vocal ... (more)

Police in Chittagong pick up 17 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir and seized a huge quantity of books on the organisation on Friday.

The High Court directed the government on Thursday to find out people behind the publication of a school textbook with distorted history regarding the declaration of independence and liberation war of the country.

The row between the Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party not only hits the economy of the country, it also represents a serious challenge to democracy in Bangladesh The Bangladeshi military is reported to have recently unearthed and quashed an attempt by a group of serving and retired army officers to overthrow the Awami League-led ... (more)