Chittagong in a sentence

Considering the strategic importance of the Chittagong port, Shaista Khan gave the highest priority to recapture it and conquested Chittagong in January 1666 AD.

Gen. Westmoreland: I think their primary thrust will be to cut off the seaport of Chittagong.

He said investment under successive governments in the hills following the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997 was not distributed equally and the marginalized tribes were ignored.

The 15-year-old identified only by his first name, Fahim, was playing hide-and-seek with friends in the port city of Chittagong on Jan.

The vessel, with an estimated arrival date of Feb. 21 at the Chittagong port, “matches the date of the Petrobangla tender reportedly won by TotalEnergies,” he added.

Bangladeshi army patrols in an armored vehicle the Dhaka-Chittagong highway on the fourth day of curfew imposed by the government amidst the countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Local media reported that Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md. Saiful Islam, who is on vacation, passed the order on Wednesday citing that the plea was rejected because Das did not have a lawyer's letter of attorney on his behalf.

Meanwhile, according to reports on social media, Islamists and anti-Hindu elements have been attacking Hindu homes, businesses, and temples in Chittagong and surrounding districts.

The country's three seaports and the airport in the second-largest city Chittagong were closed, officials said.

What began with a single $5 loan to a woman weaving bamboo stools in his home city of Chittagong has since spread to over 100 countries.

Zubair succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital, while the other two were transferred to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for treatment.

The accident took place late Saturday night at Chunti area in Chittagong district when the salt-laden truck from the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar hit the passenger vehicle, said police Superintendent S.M. Rashidul Haque.

The explosion occurred at the container depot of Incontrade Limited around 11:30 am, said Kamrul Islam, deputy commissioner (DC) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) port zone.

When he was in Chittagong and his wife and children would come to Dhaka, he was quite happy sitting alone in his chair at the dining table.

After all, Bangladesh has beaten England at the last two World Cups, first in Chittagong in 2011 and then at the Adelaide Oval in 2015 in a result that guaranteed England would be eliminated at the group stage.

Even taking that it will be another port like Chittagong, Payra does not lose a bit in terms of importance with mother carriers anchoring outside and lighterage doing the final bit of work.

Gabriel already had five demerit points against his name for two earlier incidents – three demerit points during the Jamaica Test against Pakistan in April 2017 and two demerit points in the Chittagong Test against Bangladesh last November.

Nauzer along with his three sons and daughters-in-law, two granddaughters and two grandsons all were there at the Chittagong cemetery along with me as I guided them to the father Jimmy Manekshaw’s memorial.

He said BNP’s Khulna unit is scheduled to hold a rally yesterday while Chittagong unit on March 15 and Rajshahi unit on March 31.

Infrastructure projects, including the Padma Bridge between the capital and southwest and the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway extension, will boost commercial vehicle sales growing 20% annually and tourism both from Western and Asian visitors.