At least 15 BNP activists were injured in an attack by the Chhatra League activists at Sattarghat in Raozan upazila, Chittagong on Tuesday. Police said BCL men put barricades at Sattarghat on Chittagong-Rangamati highway at about 9:30am when the BNP activists were going to Raozan upazila headquarters to attend the party’s upazila unit council.
Two central effluent treatment plants (ETPs) are expected to go into operation next year in the export-processing zones in Dhaka and Chittagong to better manage toxic waste water, officials have said. Factories in the EPZs will get the facilities to share the centrally installed ETPs for treating waste water before discharge.
The police arrested the Triple Super Phosphate Fertilizer Factory managing director in Chittagong on charges of raping a housemaid in his official residence at Patenga early Saturday.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday announced the schedule for the five-match ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe to be played in Dhaka and Chittagong, says a BCB press release.
Around 250,000 buildings in the three major cities of Bangladesh—Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet—are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, according to a recent survey. Some 142,000 among 180,000 buildings in Chittagong; 24,000 out of 52,000 in Sylhet; and 78,000 out of 326,000 buildings in Dhaka were detected as risky.
Two matches of the ICC World Cup 2011 would be held in Chittagong, said Md Zahid Ahsan Russel, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on youth and sports. "The parliamentary body has made the recommendation in view of the long-standing demand of the people of the port city," Russel told reporters after a meeting of the body this afternoon.
Awami League lawmaker MA Latif was involved in a scuffle with law enforcers when the MP with his men tried to force his way into a Water Transport Coordination Cell (WTCC) meeting in Chittagong yesterday.
Former NSI official Major (retd) Liakat Hossain refused to give a statement to a Chittagong magistrate yesterday, though he had earlier disclosed to interrogators vital information regarding the arms and ammunition seizures in Chittagong and Bogra.
New Age: The Criminal Investigation Department early Saturday arrested two former director generals of the National Security Intelligence at Dhaka in connection with the ever-biggest arms and ammunitions haul of April 2, 2004.
