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, 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 ...

Brac Bank has partnered with Chittagong City Corporation, one of the country's key municipal institutions, to offer its officials exclusive employee banking benefits. With this collaboration, ...

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 ...

Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have gathered in large numbers at the Polo Ground in Chittagong city ahead of party chairman Tarique Rahman’s rally, scheduled to begin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...