LivestockAt the Chattogram district law and order committee meeting on 10 May 2026, Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Zahidul Islam Mia ordered that no Eid-ul-Azha cattle markets be held beside roads, highways or railway lines. The meeting also called for a special drive to recover illegal arms, safe ferry crossings and price control.
FruitsGreen mangoes and garlic roasted over a flame, then mixed with dried chillies, salt and mustard oil, make pora amer kaji, a traditional Chattogram sour dish; Jagonews24 published the recipe in April 2026.
CropsMustard covered 665 hectares in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the 2025-26 season against 40 hectares in 2019-20, the upazila agriculture office said in March 2026, as farmers harvested what they described as a good crop.
About 500 farmers in Sitakunda have grown mint on 20 hectares for Ramadan and hope for trade worth Tk 50 lakh.
Local people in Sitakunda caught a man as he slaughtered a deer trapped in a coastal keora plantation, and the forest department is preparing a case.
A mobile court in Sitakunda has fined a fish trader Tk 5,000 for selling jatka, the young hilsa, and seized 6 kg of fish.
Ten young spectacled cobras were rescued from a house in Mirsharai, Chattogram, and a large cobra from another house the same day.
An 11-foot python that strayed from the forest into a village in Mirsharai, Chattogram, has been rescued and released in the Mohamaya hill forest.
An eight-foot king cobra used to frighten and extort people at a market in Mirsarai, Chattogram, has been rescued and is being treated before release.
A joint drive at Akmal Ali fishermen's ghat in Chattogram seized 2,500 kg of mother hilsa from four fishing boats back from the sea.
About 245kg of hilsa abandoned by fleeing fishermen in Sitakunda was seized by a mobile court and distributed to local orphanages.
Chattogram Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said at the launch of a greening drive at Biplob Udyan that the city is being built as a clean, green, healthy and safe smart city.
Chattogram mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said there is no alternative to planting trees as he received 1,000 saplings from the Lions Club of Chittagong.
