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 monsoon rains have plunged Chittagong into chaos, with widespread waterlogging disrupting daily life and leaving residents, especially HSC examinees, struggling with immense hardship. The ...

About 70 percent of high-rise buildings in Chittagong city will collapse if an earthquake of 7-8 magnitude on the Richter scale hits the city, says a new study of Chittagong University of Engineering ...

Chattogram, Feb. 23 -- At least nine people including three children were injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a residential building in Halishahar area of Chattogram city early Monday.

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 ...

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 ...

DHAKA, July 26 2010: The Government of Bangladesh today signed a credit agreement worth US$ 170 million for Chittagong Water Supply Improvement and Sanitation Project (CWSISP) with the International ...

At around 9am, he told reporters after voting: “ I am more hopeful about winning now. “Whatever the result is, I will accept that, since two parties cannot win at the same time. I hope the election ...

Growing up in Bangladesh, Naznin Nahar Sultana enjoyed looking out over the lush green hills east of Chittagong, the nation’s second-largest city on the Bay of Bengal. But as she got older, the hills ...

Rescue crews were frantically trying to find survivors possibly buried in debris Wednesday after heavy rain and floods washed through southeastern Bangladesh in the past few days, killing 95 people, ...

For centuries the port of Chittagong, washed by the waters of the Karnaphuli River, has fascinated and attracted travellers, traders, kings, warriors, and preachers of various religions. In 1517, the ...