BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Sanju Khum Bawm, 38, a prominent member of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), in connection with a series of violent incidents including a bank robbery and a kidnapping in Ruma, Bandarban, officials said on Thursday. The arrest took place on Wednesday evening during a targeted operation […]Continue Reading
COX’S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT Five more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) have sought refuge in Bangladesh, escaping through Sabrang Point on the Naf River in Teknaf sub-district of Cox’s Bazar, amid ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar, officials said on Thursday. The members entered Bangladesh around 11 a.m. local time on Thursday via a motorboat Continue Reading
In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim Myawaddy, a critical trading outpost on the Thai border, Reuters reports. What happens in the next few weeks in the scramble for Myawaddy […]Continue Reading
At least 200 Myanmar junta troops have surrendered after an ethnic minority army captured their headquarters in Rakhine State, near the Bangladesh border, the anti-junta organization said on Monday, Radio Free Asia reports. The Arakan Army, which has been fighting the military regime for territory since a year-long ceasefire ended in November 2023, captured a […]Continue Reading
BAGHAICHHARI CORRESPONDENT A seven-year-old boy, Romeo Tripura, has died following severe abdominal injuries caused by a bullet during a fierce shootout between two regional armed factions, the UPDF and JSS, in the remote Gandachara area of Sajek Union, Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila. He was undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical Hospital when he passed away. Romeo Continue Reading
BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT A member of the Kuki Chin National Front (KNF) was killed in a military-led operation in Ruma, Bandarban, with several weapons and ammunition being recovered, authorities reported on Tuesday. The clash occurred in the afternoon in the secluded Darjeeling Para area of Ruma Upazila. Following the incident, police retrieved the body from the […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday urged the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to raise more funds from newer sources for assistance of the Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh as its Director General (DG) Amy Pope paid a courtesy call on her. “As the fund for the assistance of Rohingya (in Bangladesh) decreased, the IOM […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the country’s army has earned public trust and confidence by standing beside the people. “Our army now stands beside the people and has gained public trust and confidence,” she said. The prime minister made these remarks while addressing a darbar at Army Central Auditorium in Dhaka […]Continue Reading
NAIKHONGCHARI CORRESPONDENT A landmine explosion along Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila severely injured three people early on Sunday, with one victim losing both legs, local authorities reported. The incident occurred near pillar number 47 in the Fultoli area of the upazila. The injured were quickly transported to Cox’s Bazar General Hospital. Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Eighty-eight members of the Myanmar Border Guard Police entered Bangladesh on Sunday morning as fighting between the armed ethnic group Arakan Army and Myanmar military rages in the Rakhine state, Bangladesh officials said. The law enforcement officials in Cox’s Bazar said that the officer and rankers carrying firearms and ammunition crossed bordering River […]Continue Reading