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On the night of 4 June 2022, a fire and subsequent explosions at a container depot in Sitakunda Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh killed at least 47 people and injured around 450 others. [1] [4] [2] [a] The incident occurred at BM Container Depot in the Kadamrasul area of Sitakunda Upazila. [1] [6] After a fire started in the loading ...
Chittagong (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ t ə ɡ ɒ ŋ / CHIT-ə-gong), officially Chattogram (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম, romanized: Côṭṭôgrām [ˈtʃɔʈːoɡram], Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও romanized: Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the ...
Zia Memorial Museum. / 22.3482315; 91.8238808. Zia Memorial Museum, also known as Old Circuit House was a circuit house building. Ziaur Rahman, the seventh president of Bangladesh, was assassinated in the building in 1981. Today it is a museum. It is located in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Joe Otterson. May 14, 2024 at 11:31 AM. Amazon Prime Video made its first upfront presentation to advertisers on Tuesday in New York, with the streamer bringing out some of its biggest stars to ...
May 17, 2024 at 3:03 AM. By Aditya Kalra and Arpan Chaturvedi. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter ...
Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard is located in Faujdarhat, Sitakunda Upazila, Bangladesh along the 18 kilometres (11 mi) Sitakunda coastal strip, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Chittagong. Handling about a fifth of the world's total, it was the world's largest ship breaking yard, [2] until that record was taken by Alang in India. [3]
The Chittagong Uprising termed by the British as Chittagong Armoury Raid, was an attempt on 18 April 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury of Bengal Province in British India (now in Bangladesh) by armed Indian independence fighters led by Surya Sen.
The name of Chittagong was changed to Islamabad and it became the headquarters of a Mughal faujdar.: 230 Khan also re-asserted Mughal control over Cooch Behar and Kamarupa. The Arakanese tried hard to recapture this region of Bengal, but they were not successful. Later, the Mughals built buildings, mosques, and temples in Chittagong.