The Ecnec yesterday approved a project to construct a medical college, hospital and nursing college partially on a wetland in Chandpur despite Planning Commission’s observation that the project cost may rise because of the nature of the chosen site.
The Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court verdict that allowed Md Salim Khan, a local Awami League leader, to extract sand from the Meghna river in Chandpur.
Six persons have been sued on charges of gang raping a housewife in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila on Saturday night.
At least eight people, including three children, died in separate road accidents in Chandpur, Laxmipur and Dhaka yesterday.
Barred by an arbitrary religious edict imposed by a local pir (religious leader), female voters of an entire union in Faridganj upazila have willingly not exercised their right to franchise in independent Bangladesh.
A six-month old baby was killed in a gas cylinder blast in Chandpur Sadar.
A madrasa teacher in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur has been arrested for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl twice in a month.
A 16-year-old girl committed suicide on Tuesday night after she was reportedly raped in Chandpur village under Jagannathpur upazila
A Chittagong court yesterday awarded death penalty to six people for killing Krishak League leader Oli Ullah in Chandpur in 2014.
A madrasa teacher in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur has been arrested for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl twice in a month.
A 16-year-old girl committed suicide on Tuesday night after she was reportedly raped in Chandpur village under Jagannathpur upazila
A Chittagong court yesterday awarded death penalty to six people for killing Krishak League leader Oli Ullah in Chandpur in 2014.
The World Bank approves US$360 million to help Bangladesh improve the navigability, year-round safe transport for passengers and cargo along Bangladesh’s busiest waterways.
The High Court issues a ruling asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why it should not be directed to give Tk 20 lakh in compensation to the family members of a three-year-old girl who died after falling into a septic tank in Chandpur.
At least 11 people are injured in different violence incidents during the third phase union parishad (UP) elections in Jamalpur and Sherpur districts.
Coast guards yesterday destroyed around 2,000kg of lobsters worth about Tk 10 lakh in Chandpur as those were found injected with jelly.
Police recover the bodies of three more people including a child and a woman, raising death toll to seven from a trawler capsize in the Meghna river in Chandpur.
Police recover the bodies of two children five days into their missing following a trawler capsize in the Meghna river in Chandpur.
At least seven people including six children are missing after a trawler capsized in Meghna river of Chandpur. The incident took place due to the dense fog, says a passenger of the trawler.
