Army Chief pays courtesy call on Chief Adviser

September 22, 2024

NEWS DESK Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Sunday paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser to the Interim Government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus at his office in Dhaka. “During the meeting, the Chief Adviser was apprised by the Army Chief of the existing overall security situation across the country . . . and […]Continue Reading

Hill-Bengali clash leaves 3 dead, 17 injured in Khagrachari

September 20, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Three people were killed and at least 17 others injured, including four with gunshot wounds, in a clash between hill people and Bengalis in Dighinala and Sadar upazilas of Khagrachari early Friday. Chattogram Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Ahsan Habib Palash confirmed the information to the media. The deceased have been […]Continue Reading

5 injured as hill attackers vandalise mosque, shops in Rangamati

September 20, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RANGAMATI Hundreds of armed hill attackers vandalised a mosque and several shops in Rangamati’s Banarupa area on Thursday, leaving five people injured. The attack took place around 10:00am on Friday, when a group of armed individuals launched a sudden assault on the area, locals said. The attackers also set fire to auto-rickshaws and […]Continue Reading

Over 50 shops burned in Khagrachari clash during student protest

September 20, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI More than 50 shops were set on fire and five people were injured in a clash that broke out during a student protest in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachari on Thursday. The violence erupted after a group of hill youths reportedly attacked a student procession organised by general students of Dighinala Government College […]Continue Reading

Three cadres of banned militant outfit held in Manipur; IEDs, arms recovered

September 20, 2024

Security forces in Manipur arrested three cadres of a banned militant outfit and recovered several IEDs, arms and ammunition in separate operations in Imphal West and Imphal East districts, officials said, PTI reports. According to police, the three cadres belonging to the outlawed Kanglei Yawol Kanba Lup (KYKL) outfit were apprehended in Ghari area of […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army Seizes Myanmar Navy SEAL Base in Rakhine State

September 8, 2024

The ethnic Arakan Army (AA) said it seized the junta’s Navy Seal Training Center near the tourist destination of Ngapali Beach in Thandwe Township, southern Rakhine State on Thursday after a month of intense fighting, The Irrawaddy reports. The junta stronghold, known officially as the Central Naval Diving and Salvage Depot (CNDSD), is the first […]Continue Reading

At least five killed as ethnic violence flares in India’s Manipur

September 8, 2024

At least five people, including one civilian, have been killed as violence flared between two warring ethnic communities in the restive northeastern Indian state of Manipur, according to authorities, Al Jazeera reports. Manipur has been rocked by periodic violence for more than a year between the predominantly Hindu-majority Meitei and the mainly Christian Kukis over […]Continue Reading

Home adviser tells BGB to prevent repeat of Felani incident at border

September 8, 2024

NEWS DESK Home affairs adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said on Saturday that he did not want to see killings of Bangladesh nationals like that of Felani again along the border with India. ‘I don’t want to see killings like Felani again. Don’t show your back at the border . . . […]Continue Reading

Another 500 Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh

September 8, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT At least 500 Rohingyas crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh on Saturday, local officials said, in the latest influx of refugees escaping violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The latest arrivals come after more than 200 Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh on Friday through Cox’s Bazar. Over the past two weeks, an estimated 8,000 […]Continue Reading

Army donates one day salary to relief fund

August 23, 2024

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Army has donated money, equivalent to one day’s salary of its all members, to the Chief Adviser’s Relief Fund aiming to help flood victims across Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army, through its verified Facebook page, said the money had been donated to help the victims of the ongoing flash flood that has ravaged Feni, […]Continue Reading