Chittagong Bureau : Housing and Public Works Minister Engr. Moshraff Hossain MP said, port city Chittagong will be developed as a congestion-free eye catching city and everything will be done for turning the port city as commercial capital. He said within the tenure of present AL-led govt, his pledges will be fulfilled. He disclosed this while addressing views with the journalists at Chittagong circuit house on thursday evening. This was the first visit of the Minister after his taking oath as Minister...
Chittagong Bureau :One fake DB police named Abu Musa(25) was detained by the local people in the city yesterday . He was allegedly impersonating himself as a DB police. Abu Musa was rounded up from Chittagong Railway station . Local people caught him while demanding tolls and handed over him to police. Abu Musa is the son of Khalilur Rahman of Satkania upazila. Sources said Abu Musa remitted some amount of money through Bikash agent Bipul Kumar of Chowkbazar in...
Chittagong Bureau : Police arrested 12 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Chittagong’s Sitakunda and Satkania Upazila.The arrest was made during the raids in different places of two upazilas on Thursday night.Police arrested Shibir activists Waliullah and Jainal Abedin from Madam Bibir Haat in Sitakunda with two kgs of gun powder, bomb making materials, splinter, one monitor and party’s documents.They are now being interrogated, Sitakunda Police Station OC Iftekhar Hassan said.The two Shibir activists are...
Chittagong Bureau :An sporadic clash between the two factional group of Chhatra League of Chittagong City Unit occurred at about 8 pm on Thursday leaving 6 BCL activists injured. The incident occurred at the view exchanging meeting of the newly assigned ministers of Chittagong at Chittagong Circuit House on Thursday evening with the journalists . One deprived leader of city unit BCL Md. Yasin Arafat told the New Nation that they went to circuit house to greet the new ministers and...
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent :Sounil Chandra Suttrodhar , a Sub Inspector (SI) of Cox’s Bazar sadar thana was closed from his duty for his alleged involvement of taking money and shipping from Australian tourist couple after kidnap on January 11. A case was filed against police source one Absur with sadar thana accusing him in the incident. Assistant Police Super (ASP) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Circle, Chhatra Dhar Tripura acknowledged the fact. Source said, Myanmar origin Australian citizen Sabir Mohammed and his...
Chittagong Bureau :Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud said Halda Irrigation Project(HIP) will be restart immediately. After completion of the irrigation project , about 1800 hectres of land will come under this irrigation project. He disclosed it at Hathazari home constituency area after praying prayer at the grave of his parents. He said under the finance of World Bank , Water Development Board of Bangaldesh constructed this irrigation project in 1988 but now this irrigation project will be expanded...
Chittagong Bureau :Police recovered a bullet injured body from Darogahat area beside Dhaka -Chittagong highway under sitakunda thana yesterday at about 12 noon. The body identified as Mosharaf Hossain(22) , an active activist of chatra shibir. The body was lying in an abandoned position beside the highway andsensing the information, police recovered thebody. Victim Mosharaf Hossain is the general secretary of No.2 Ward chatra shibir unit of Poura Chatra shibir, sources added. Meanwhile sitakkunda thana police rounded up five shibir...
CU Correspondent :The mutual students of progressive student’s forum sent memorandum including a five point demand to Vice Chancellor in Chittagong University (CU) demanding to ensure a terrorism, occupation and fundamentalism free campus on Saturday.Other demands of the memorandum are, forbid the politics of communal organization in the campus, ensuring the security and session jam free studentship of all students, revocation of the van of political activities over the campus and holding the CUCSU election as early as possible for...