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300 ethnic minority women to get free midwifery training in CHT; Bengalis decry exclusion

March 4, 2025

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI A UN-funded initiative to train 300 ethnic minority women as midwives in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has sparked controversy, with Bengali residents alleging systemic exclusion. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA)-funded three-year Diploma in Midwifery aims to reduce maternal and child mortality in the CHT districts of Khagrachhari, Continue Reading

Abrar Fahad deserves Swadhinata Padak in liberation war category: Farooki

March 3, 2025

NEWS DESK Cultural Affairs Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has said Abrar Fahad should get the Swadhinata Padak in the Liberation War category. Farooki, in a personal post on Facebook on Monday evening, shared his perspective on the category in which Abrar Fahad should receive the award. He added that this year’s Independence Award will be […]Continue Reading

Abrar Fahad to be awarded Swadhinata Padak posthumously

March 3, 2025

NEWS DESK Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) who was brutally killed in 2019 by members of the banned organisation Chhatra League, will be posthumously awarded the Swadhinata Padak 2024 (Independence Award), Bangladesh’s highest civilian honour. The recognition honours his courage in standing against injustice and his Continue Reading

EU announces €68m in aid for Rohingyas

March 3, 2025

NEWS DESK EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib has said the European Union is providing €68 million this year for the Rohingya response, including host communities in Bangladesh and for the Myanmar conflict, notably for the people caught in violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The EU commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management made the announcement as […]Continue Reading

CA press wing debunks Indian newspaper’s report about Bangladesh

March 2, 2025

Indian newspaper The Tribune report headlined ‘ISI, Bangladesh operatives teaming up to revive ULFA camps near Assam border’ was a fake one, the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing has said. The Tribune newspaper in New Delhi has run the front-page story claiming that ISI and Bangladesh operatives are teaming up to revive ULFA camps. “As with […]Continue Reading

‘Yunus has long way to go to resolve impasse’: Amartya Sen

March 2, 2025

NEWS DESK Expressing concerns over the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said his friend Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government, is taking significant steps but has a long road ahead to resolve the impasse, the PTI reports. In an interview with the PTI at his Santiniketan home in India’s West […]Continue Reading

India’s Amit Shah for deporting Bangladeshis, Rohingyas from Delhi

March 1, 2025

Union home minister of India Amit Shah on Friday instructed the top brass of the Delhi police to have a clear and swift legal approach while dealing with unauthorised migrants, including Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, in New Delhi city, reported NDTV. ‘At present, an audit is being done in colonies which have a major chunk of […]Continue Reading

One injured in landmine explosion at Naikhongchhari border

March 1, 2025

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT A Bangladeshi national was injured on Saturday in a landmine explosion at the zero point of the Nikochhari border in Naikhongchhari upazila, Bandarban district. The injured individual, identified as Nurunnabi, 48, is a member of the Ansar-VDP. The explosion occurred around 5:00pm in Myanmar territory, south of Pillar 42, near the border area Continue Reading

Four arrested over Lama village arson, including three Christians

December 26, 2024

LAMA CORRESPONDENT Police have arrested four individuals, including three men from the Christian Tripura community and a Bengali worker, in connection with an arson attack in Tongjiri village under Lama upazila in Bandarban, police said on Thursday. The suspects, identified as Stephen Tripura (50), Masainia Tripura (44), Joachim Tripura (52), and Ibrahim (65), a worker Continue Reading

Army chief visits Cox’s Bazar

November 18, 2024

NEWS DESK Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman visited 10 Infantry Division and Cox’s Bazar area on 17 and 18 November. During the visit, he laid the foundation stone of two residential buildings – ‘Senaneer’ and ‘Swapnachura’ – to be built in the Ramu Cantonment. These will help resolve the accommodation problem of Junior Commissioned […]Continue Reading

300 ethnic minority women to get free midwifery training in CHT; Bengalis decry exclusion

Abrar Fahad deserves Swadhinata Padak in liberation war category: Farooki

Abrar Fahad to be awarded Swadhinata Padak posthumously

EU announces €68m in aid for Rohingyas

CA press wing debunks Indian newspaper’s report about Bangladesh

‘Yunus has long way to go to resolve impasse’: Amartya Sen

India’s Amit Shah for deporting Bangladeshis, Rohingyas from Delhi

One injured in landmine explosion at Naikhongchhari border

Four arrested over Lama village arson, including three Christians

Army chief visits Cox’s Bazar

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