Daily lifeA bun that cost Tk 10 six months ago now costs Tk 15 and loitta fish has doubled to Tk 300; an elderly Chattogram hawker lives on buns and water, and a driver is sending his family back to the village.
LivestockTwenty-five field-level dairy entrepreneurs from Hathazari, Cumilla and Mirsarai completed five days of hands-on training at Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University.
HealthConsumer-rights officials fined M R Consumers Products at Bahaddarhat after finding ghee made with no milk at all, from palm oil, artificial flavour and harmful colouring; the stock was destroyed.
EnvironmentCyclones, waves, pollution and poor management have sped up erosion at Parki beach in Anwara, Chattogram; holes left by protective geo-tubes and geo-bags are causing accidents, and a Tk 548 crore protection project is being designed.
LivestockOn World Animal Welfare Day, Chattogram Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said the city corporation and Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University will work jointly for animal welfare; the university launched an Animal Welfare Club.
HealthSince mid-March more than 9,000 people in Chattogram have had measles and 29 have died, 21 of them children; nine city wards and many upazilas are hotspots, and a shortage of kits means most samples go untested.
FisheriesAt a meeting in Chattogram, State Minister Sultan Salauddin Tuku pressed fisheries and livestock officers to cut farmers' costs, curb needless antibiotic use and prepare the sector for meat exports.
Thirty of 119 sanctioned health and family-planning posts in Sitakunda, Chattogram, are vacant, with a shortfall of about 34 per cent among family-planning assistants; patients report shortages of doctors and medicine.
Chattogram Medical College Hospital's cardiac surgery unit has six surgeons but, short of staff and equipment, performs at most six or seven operations a month; only one of its four ventilators really works.
About 55,123 acres of forest in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban are occupied, and 572 forest guards patrol the region's 855,968 acres of woodland.
Thin arrivals at the wholesale yards lifted almost every vegetable at Kazir Dewri, Pahartali and Nayabazar; local hilsa sells for Tk 3,000 a kilo while Indian hilsa goes for Tk 1,800 and Myanmar's Tk 2,200; local chicken up to Tk 650, eggs, meat and spices unchanged.
A Burmese python about 12 feet long and weighing about 14kg was rescued from a garden's boundary net in Boalkhali, Chattogram.
The hilsa catch at the Domkhali-Sahebkhali estuary in Mirsarai, Chattogram, has doubled this year, though officials say industrialisation still threatens the breeding ground.
