illegal hill cutting in Chattogram

Photo shows three seized trucks during the raids. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Illegal sand extraction, hill cutting operations busted in Chattogram's Patiya: 3 jailed, Tk2.5 lakh fined

Despite holding a lease for sand extraction, the fined businessman was extracting sand from unauthorised locations

The accused cut a hill at Jungle Latifpur under Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Case filed against 11 people in Ctg for hill cutting to make residential plot

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

DoE files four cases against 39 for illegal hill cutting in Chattogram

Tipped off that a hill owned by a man named Abdul Malek was worn down, the department officials went to the spot on 6 November and saw a part of a 70-feet steep hill in the forest had already been cut down. Photo: TBS
Crime

Case against 3 on charges of cutting hill using water in Ctg

Residents look up from a house following a landslide in the IW Colony in Chattogram city on Sunday. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Districts

Hill cutting continues in Ctg despite fines, cases

Officials of Chattogram district administration conduct a drive at a hill of the city on Saturday (12 August). Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

District administration directs authorities to sue 17 involved in hill cutting in Ctg

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Govt official accused of razing hill in Cox’s Bazar

A large part of a creek coming down from the hill has been filled with sand and soil. The blockade is caused by the construction of two dams using geobags in the middle of the creek behind Arshi Nagar Future Park-2. The photo was taken recently from Salimpur area of Sitakunda, Chattogram. Photo: Abu Azad
Environment

Spectra razing hills, filling lakes in Chattogram

4 fined Tk 7.5 lakh for illegal hill cutting in Chattogram
Bangladesh

4 fined Tk 7.5 lakh for illegal hill cutting in Chattogram