Sitakunda

Sitakunda

A scrap ship caught fire at a shipbreaking yard named Arefin Enterprise in Bhatiary Union of Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on 18 May. Photo: Collected

Scrap ship catches fire in Sitakunda shipbreaking yard

No casualties were reported as the workers on board the ship managed to escape

Photo: Courtesy

Spoken English Course launched for 25,000 students of 146 schools in Sitakunda

Students at Banshbaria Rahmater Para Government Primary School in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila attend school in a tin shed classroom. Put up as a temporary solution by the contractor, ongoing delays in new school construction have forced children to endure the use of these substandard facility. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Dilapidated classrooms drive students from Sitakunda schools

Photo: TBS

Charity organisation sells chicken at Tk100 per kg in Ctg's Sitakunda

Photo: TBS

Injured deer rescued from Sitakunda shifted to Bangabandhu Safari Park

Photo: TBS

Rescued injured deer in Sitakunda left untreated

In one recent incident on Monday (13 February), a group of robbers targeted the residence of Sheikh Salauddin, correspondent for Daily Azadi Online and JaiJaidin newspaper, in the municipal area of the upazila. Photo: TBS

Six robberies in 12 days rattle Sitakunda

Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohammad Habibullah and farmer Nur Ahmad hold up the novel type of yellow cauliflowers at a field at Nunachhara village under Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram. Photo: Collected

Colourful cauliflower: Agri revolution in Sitakunda

Rows of small and large date palm trees adorn various areas of Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila. As the afternoon progresses, juice collectors get busy with securing collection pots on the trees. Photo: TBS

Sitakunda's date palm juice business booms, generating Tk3.5cr in two months

Two farmers – Abu Bakkar Siddique and Didarul Alam – who suffered losses, said they had invested significant resources, including funds borrowed from NGOs and relatives, into cultivating cauliflowers. Photo: TBS

20,000 cauliflowers dashed by poisonous pesticides in Sitakunda

Representational image. Photo: Collected

Indigenous community leader killed in road accident in Ctg's Sitakunda

Two of the extinct fishes Dendrophysa russelli (top) and Pricanthus tayenus (bottom). Photo: Collected

30 fish species vanish as pollution grips Sandwip Channel

A farmer tends to a bean tree at a farmland in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila. Shrinking profit margin in the “capital of beans” is dragging down the country’s exports of the vegetable. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Sitakunda bean farmers switch to other crops due to low price, high production cost