A sub-inspector of the industrial police has been withdrawn for producing an industrialist Parvez Uddin of Chittagong, accused in a case filed over an explosion in Sitakunda on March 7, before court tying a rope around his waist. The policeman named Arun Kanti Biswas has been asked to show cause in
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Sitakunda DC blames unplanned factories for accidents
The deputy commissioner of Chittagong has placed the blame on unplanned small and medium industrial factories for recent industrial accidents in Sitakunda upazila. “They do not have reservoirs or firefighting gear, so even if there is a fire, it becomes difficult to extinguish, which increases the damage,” DC Abul Bashar Md
6 dead, 50 injured in oxygen plant fire
At least six people were killed and 50 others injured as a massive fire broke out at an oxygen plant following an explosion in Kadam Rasul (Keshabpur) area of Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila on Saturday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, said Nurul Alam Ashiq, in-charge of
FSIBL opens new branch at Sitakunda
First Security Islami Bank Ltd. inaugurated a new branch at Sitakunda in Chattogram on Wednesday, a press release said. Syed Waseque Md Ali, Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the branch. Md. Masudur Rahman Shah, Deputy Managing Director, Mohammed Hafizur Rahman, Zonal Head of Chattogram North, Mohammed Kamal Uddin, Zonal
Owners, authorities liable for Sitakunda fire
The committee formed to probe Sitakunda container depot fire has found depot owners and government monitoring authority responsible for the horrific fire incident that has claimed 51 lives. The fire originated from chemical hydrogen peroxide stored in some containers at BM container depot, says the probe report. Additional Divisional Commissioner (development) Md
10,000 gas cylinders seized in Sitakunda
In a major crackdown on unauthorised sale of cooking gas cylinders, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained 10 people and seized 10,000 cylinders in the district's Sitakunda upazila. Members of the elite force carried out raids across Sitakunda upazila on Tuesday and Wednesday in the wake of the massive fire at
Efforts on to douse fire as death toll stands at 50
Firefighters continued their operation on Monday to douse the deadly blaze at BM Container Depot at Sitakunda in Chattogram even after 38 hours of the incident that so far claimed 50 lives and left several hundred wounded. The death toll from the devastating fire reached 50 with the recovery of another
49 dead, 200 injured in massive Sitakunda fire
Eviction fear grips Sitakunda Tripura ethnic community
The ethnic Tripura community of Sonaichhari in Sitakunda upazila, Chattogram are in constant fear as some local influential people have allegedly been trying to evict them from their century-old land. Tripuras live in different areas of Bangladesh, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sitakunda and Mirsarai upazilas of Chittagong, Bilonia upazila of