Sifayet Ullah
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Despite lease expiry, former lessee continues collecting Chattogram station parking fees (opens the original)
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More than four months after the High Court discharged a rule concerning the lease of two parking lots at Chattogram Railway Station, the former lessee continues to control the facilities. During visits to the station on September 24 and 27, The Daily Star found cars, microbuses, minibuses, trucks, lorries and motorcycles parked in the two lots. Workers of SA Corporation, owned by former lessee Md Shah Alam, were still collecting parking fees from vehicles at both lots. Parking fees are being col
Shipbreaking tragedy: Yard ‘forgot’ to renew DoE clearance (opens the original)
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Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries was cutting the scrap vessel, MT Rasi, without a valid environmental clearance at its Sitakunda yard in Chattogram, where nine workers died from toxic gas inhalation inside the vessel on August 14. According to the Department of Environment (DoE), its Chattogram district office issued the clearance on August 13, 2025. The clearance, which contained 31 conditions, was valid until August 12, 2026. The incident occurred two days after the clearance expired. A
A child will be fatherless at birth (opens the original)
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Palash Jaladas, 35, was only weeks away from becoming a father. His wife, Bhumika, is seven and a half months pregnant, and the couple had been waiting for the arrival of their first child, imagining how their lives would change once the baby came. However, in a cruel twist of fate, Palash died yesterday morning after inhaling toxic fumes while working inside a scrap vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram. And so by the afternoon, the home in Jaladas Para -- where the c
Teletalk set to build tower in reserved forest without approval (opens the original)
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State-owned mobile operator Teletalk has begun constructing a mobile tower inside a reserved forest in Chattogram's Fatikchhari upazila without obtaining approval from the forest department. Under forest laws, entry into and construction inside a reserved forest require prior approval. However, the company has already completed the tower's foundation after excavating the site near Jhiltali Bazar Mosque under Heyako Beat of Korerhat Range in Bhujpur over the past week without securing clearance f
Ramgarh-Sitakunda reserve forest: An endless cycle of sand mining (opens the original)
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Despite repeated crackdowns, arrests, and equipment seizures, illegal sand extraction continues inside the Ramgarh-Sitakunda Reserve Forest in Chattogram. The unabated sand extraction has put the forest ecosystem under severe threat. Forest Department records obtained by The Daily Star show that between June 2025 and May 2026, authorities carried out at least 21 drives against illegal sand mining inside the protected forest and seized or destroyed at least 11 sand-laden trucks, two excavators, 1
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