BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT A retired army member, Rezaul Karim, 43, was killed in a road accident on Tuesday morning after a bus hit his motorcycle in the Meghla Talukdarpara area on the Bandarban–Keranihat road. Karim, a resident of Shekherkhilla in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar and the son of the late Badiul Alam, was travelling towards […]Continue Reading
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Police have recovered the body of a woman in a remote forested area of Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila, amid allegations from locals that she was gang-raped and murdered. The victim, identified as 29-year-old Chingma Khiyang, went missing on Sunday after leaving home for jhum cultivation in the hills near Tindu Union. She did not return, prompting […]Continue Reading
BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT At least nine people, including two tobacco farmers and seven farm workers, were abducted at gunpoint from a remote area of Lama upazila in Bandarban early Monday. The incident took place around 1:00am in the Lemupalong area of Sroi Union, said police and local sources. The abducted farmers have been identified as Md […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK A young man has reportedly lost part of his leg in a suspected landmine explosion along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening inside Myanmar territory, near border pillar 49 at Lembuchhari in Dochhari Union, according to locals. The injured, 20-year-old Mohammad Shahidullah, is the son of Badsha Mia […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Mobile network operator Robi has said more than 50 of its towers in Bangladesh’s hilly regions have been shut down over the past three months due to power and fibre cable cuts. In a media statement on Thursday, the company claimed miscreants had an “extortion motive” behind such activities. “The criminal ring has […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK A construction worker has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a 17-year-old girl of the Khyang community with mental health condition in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila, after the incident was initially attempted to be settled through local arbitration (salish). Jamal Hossain, a road repair worker from Patuakhali, was detained on Tuesday, a day Continue Reading
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI Bengali women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are now eligible to apply for a three-year midwifery diploma after a change in admission criteria. The move follows a report by Parbatta News, which raised concerns about ethnic bias against Bengali communities. A notice issued on March 2 had limited the United Nations […]Continue Reading
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
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
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
