Keokradong reopens after 18 months

October 2, 2025

NEWS DESK The Keokradong hill tourist center in Ruma upazila of Bandarban district was reopened on Wednesday for visitors, after remaining closed for 18 months due to anti-terror operations in the hill region. Marking the occasion, a colorful rally was brought out in Bandarban district town this morning under the initiative of the district administration. […]Continue Reading

Secret papers allege land purchases in India by JSS and UPDF leaders

October 1, 2025

STAFF REPORTER Secret documents have emerged alleging that nine senior figures of the separatist armed organisations Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS) and the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) have purchased land in India. According to the leaked papers, the leaders collectively acquired 25 kani of land in West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram. The documents state the […]Continue Reading

Army conducts drive at KNA training camp in Bandarban

September 3, 2025

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Army conducted a month-long special military operation from July 25 to August 26 in the remote Reng Tlang area of Ruma upazila in Bandarban district. During the operation, army patrol team uncovered a training camp of the Kuki National Army (KNA), also known as the “Bom Party,” a banned ethno-nationalist armed group, […]Continue Reading

Call to increase CHT parliamentary seats from three to eight

August 26, 2025

PARBATTANEWS ONLINE DESK Civil society groups from the Chittagong Hill Tracts have called on the Election Commission (EC) to raise the number of parliamentary seats in the region from three to eight. On Monday, 25 August, a memorandum was submitted to the Chief Election Commissioner at the EC headquarters in Agargaon. It was handed over […]Continue Reading

Bengalis allege discrimination in new CHT Development Board advisory panel

August 17, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS REPORT The newly formed advisory committee of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Development Board has sparked criticism for excluding representatives from the Bengali community, which makes up more than half of the population in the region. On August 13, the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs issued a letter appointing nine members to […]Continue Reading

NCP’s Sarjis visits Bandarban, local leaders unaware

August 8, 2025

THANCHI CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Sarjis Alam, chief organiser for the northern region of the National Citizens’ Committee (NCP), visited three upazilas in Bandarban on Thursday, but local leaders said they were not informed of his trip. Party sources said Alam arrived from Cox’s Bazar in the morning and travelled to Lama, Alikadam and Thanchi upazilas. He […]Continue Reading

Army provides free medical services in remote Alikadam hills

July 15, 2025

ALIKADAM CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN The Bangladesh Army has provided free medical treatment and medicine to residents of the remote Kurukpata area in Alikadam upazila of Bandarban district. The medical camp was held on Tuesday (15 July) under the supervision of the Alikadam Army Zone and conducted by the Mendonpara Army Camp. A total of 223 patients—55 […]Continue Reading

Followup: KNA commander killed in Bandarban had sent family to Mizoram, trained in India

July 9, 2025

RUMA CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN A top commander of the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), who was killed in a gunfight with the army in Bandarban last week, had earlier moved his family to India’s Mizoram and received armed training in Manipur, officials say. Sangmin Bom, 27, was one of two KNA members killed during a military raid […]Continue Reading

Two killed, including KNA commander, in army operation in Bandarban

July 3, 2025

Two people, including a KNA commander, were killed and one injured in an army operation in Ruma, Bandarban in the early morning of Thursday. A large quantity of weapons, ammunition, and equipment was also recovered, according to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The operation, which has been underway for 48 hours based […]Continue Reading

Contractor abandons ICT Building construction at Thanchi College

July 1, 2025

THANCHI CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN The construction of the ICT building at Thanchi College in Bandarban has been stalled for three years. As a result, over a hundred students are unable to access digital classes and computer-based education. The Bangladesh Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education initiated a project in 2022-23 to build the ICT building with […]Continue Reading