Bangladesh wants Asean to do more to facilitate Rohingya repatriation

January 12, 2024

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Ambassador to Myanmar Md Monwar Hossain has expressed his hope that the Asean Chair will play even more of a positive role in facilitating the repatriation of more than one million displaced Rohingyas to their homeland. The Rohingyas fled from Rakhine state to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape a Myanmar crackdown on […]Continue Reading

Rohingya leader killed in Cox’s Bazar camp

January 12, 2024

NEWS DESK A Rohingya leader was killed by slitting his throat in a camp under Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar Friday evening. The victim, Rohingya sub majhi Karim Ullah, was killed at Balukhali camp at about 8:00pm, said Ukhia police station officer-in-charge Shamim Hossain.  Continue Reading

Brotherhood Alliance, Myanmar junta agree to ceasefire in Northern Shan

January 12, 2024

The anti-regime ethnic armed alliance that has been waging a war against the Myanmar junta in northern Shan State reached a three-point ceasefire deal with the regime during China-sponsored peace talks on Thursday, sources with knowledge of the meeting told The Irrawaddy, The Irrawaddy reports. Representatives of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the Arakan […]Continue Reading

Scores of Myanmar junta troops killed in five days of resistance attacks

January 12, 2024

Almost 60 Myanmar junta troops were killed in the last five days as People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) continued to attack regime targets across the country, The Irrawaddy reports. The military regime has accelerated its bombardment of civilian targets across northern Shan as it loses ground to the rebel armies and […]Continue Reading

Over 400 defeated Myanmar junta soldiers flee to India

January 12, 2024

More than 400 Myanmar junta troops have fled over the border to India in two months to escape resistance attacks and have been promptly flown back to the regime, according to India’s army chief General Manoj Pande, The Irrawaddy reports. Chin resistance forces and the Arakan Army (AA) have seized several junta posts near the […]Continue Reading

Will work to ensure equal rights for all: Kujendra tells Parbatta News

January 11, 2024

PARBATTA NEWS REPORT Newly sworn-in State Minister for Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs, Kujendra Lal Tripura, commits to promoting equality and communal harmony in the region.  Following his oath-taking at Bangabhaban on Thursday (11 January), he shared this commitment in his reaction to the editor of Parbatta News, the first and only news portal on Cox’s […]Continue Reading

Newly appointed minister Kujendra vows to implement CHT Peace Accord

January 11, 2024

PARBATTA NEWS DESK REPORT Newly appointed State Minister for Chattogram Hill Tracts, Kujendra Lal Tripura has pledged to play a robust role in implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts or CHT Peace Accord.  He made the pledge aimed at a region that has long been seeking peace and stability, while talking to the media after an […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta kills 57 civilians Since January 1

January 10, 2024

The Irrawaddy has recorded that 57 civilians, including 18 children, were killed and 119 wounded by Myanmar’s junta in the first week of 2024, The Irrawaddy reports. Airstrikes and shelling targeting schools, hospitals and playgrounds have stepped up since Operation 1027 was launched in northern Shan State on October 27. The junta has lost control […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army steps up war against junta in Myanmar’s Rakhine state with attack on naval base

January 10, 2024

Myanmar’s junta faced a second day of attacks on its main naval base in the south of Rakhine State on Tuesday after the Arakan Army – which announced Monday it was escalating attacks on junta troops in coordination with allies in the western state – seized junta outposts in two northern townships of the western […]Continue Reading

Khagrachhari gets state minister after two decades

January 10, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI Kujendra Lal Tripura, re-elected MP from Khagrachhari, has been nominated as State Minister, with the Cabinet confirming his appointment on Wednesday night.  The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for Thursday at Ganabhaban.  Tripura’s appointment marks an end to a twenty-two-year absence of state ministerial representation for Continue Reading