KHAGRACHHARI CORRESPONDENT A 45-year-old man was arrested with a homemade firearm and ammunition during a police raid in Matiranga upazila of Khagrachhari on Sunday afternoon. The arrestee, Brojen Tripura, is a resident of Yaminichhara area, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted the raid in Ayodhya Para of Belchari Union around […]Continue Reading
STAFF REPORTER Residents of the Teknaf border region experienced a night of terror on Sunday, March 17th, as at least 21 mortar shells exploded within Myanmar territory. The blasts shook at least 13 villages in the Teknaf Municipality, creating widespread fear and panic. The explosions began around 9:25 PM and continued for approximately 30 minutes, […]Continue Reading
MATIRANGA CORRESPONDENT In the Matiranga hills of Bangladesh’s Khagrachhari district, a conflict is escalating between humans and monkeys. The monkeys, their forest habitat destroyed by development, are raiding homes and farms in search of food. The area’s forests have been cleared for housing and agriculture, leaving the monkeys with nowhere to go. This has Continue Reading
RAJASTHALI CORRESPONDENT The Bangladesh Army’s 305th Region’s 10 RE Battalion has distributed gifts of love among the poor, helpless, orphans, and destitute people. Captain of the 10 RE Battalion Lt Colonel Muhammad Sohel, PSC, distributed the gifts of love in the area that falls under the jurisdiction of the battalion. According to a press release […]Continue Reading
The Arkan Army (AA) captured Rathedaung town in Rakhine state after driving the last troops from three junta battalions out of the town on the weekend, the ethnic army said, The Irrawaddy reports. It seized three separate infantry headquarters – from light infantry battalions 536, 537 and 538 – outside the town on Sunday evening […]Continue Reading
Somali police and international navies were preparing on Monday to attack a commercial ship that was hijacked by pirates last week, the Puntland region’s police force said, two days after Indian commandos rescued another cargo vessel held by pirates, Reuters reports. The MV Abdullah was hijacked off the coast of Somalia last week, the latest […]Continue Reading
Palestinians in Gaza held the first Friday prayers of Ramadan outside the ruins of a mosque levelled in Israel’s offensive, one of hundreds the Hamas-run authorities say have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks since October, Reuters reports. Scores of worshippers knelt in rows in the street by the wreckage of the al-Farouk mosque […]Continue Reading
Myanmar’s junta has killed nine civilians during four days of raids in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, The Irrawaddy reports. Those killed included two people in their 70s and a blind man, according to the Myingyan People’s Strike Committee. From March 11 to March 14, junta troops raided at least six villages and burned houses, the […]Continue Reading
BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT Over one hundred members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) are poised to enter Bangladesh, driven by escalating violence between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army rebel group. Fearing for their safety, the BGP members are amassing at the Jamchhari border crossing. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has taken immediate action to […]Continue Reading
STAFF REPORTER State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Kujendra Lal Tripura has called for the swift completion of development projects in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Attending meetings was not enough; officials must be proactive in understanding and implementing strategies for rapid project completion, he said on Thursday. Mr Tripura was speaking at a […]Continue Reading