500 families displaced by KNF attack in Bandarban return home

April 5, 2024

STAFF REPORTER Approximately 500 families who fled into the jungle during a militant attack in Bangladesh’s Bandarban district returned to their homes after the assailants withdrew, residents said. The attack on Thursday night, the fourth in the region by the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) since Tuesday, involved an attempted assault on Thanchi police station. Continue Reading

Misunderstanding led to Alikadam checkpost shooting : Police

April 5, 2024

STAFF REPORTER It was misunderstanding that led to a shooting incident at a joint security checkpost in the Dim Pahar area of Bandaraban’s Alikadam, police said on Friday. Two truck assistants, Mohammad Tarek (20) and Md Arafat (26), were injured after a truck carrying bricks and sand attempted to cross the checkpost barricade around 12:45 […]Continue Reading

Terrorists attack joint forces checkpoint in Alikadam

April 4, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Armed terrorists attacked a joint forces search checkpoint in the 26 Mile Dim Pahar area of Alikadam in Bandarban district early Friday morning (April 5). Tobidur Rahman, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Alikadam Police Station, confirmed the incident. He explained that when a vehicle refused to stop for a search at the checkpoint, joint forces […]Continue Reading

Abducted Sonali Bank’s Ruma branch manager rescued

April 4, 2024

NEWS DESK Nizam Uddin, the manager of Sonali Bank’s Ruma branch in Bandarban, has been rescued 48 hours after his abduction. Director of the Legal and Media Wing of the Rapid Action Battalion Khandaker Al Moin confirmed the matter in Thursday evening. Nizam was rescued at about 7:15pm and he was taken to the local […]Continue Reading

KNF attacks Thanchi bazar again, joint forces resist

April 4, 2024

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Just hours after releasing the abducted manager of Sonali Bank’s Ruma branch, the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) launched another attack, targeting the Sonali Bank branch in Thanchi upazila. The attack, which occurred around 8:30 pm on Thursday (April 4), triggered a fierce gun battle between KNF terrorists and joint forces comprising police and Continue Reading

Home Minister: KNF involved in Bandarban bank robberies

April 3, 2024

NEWS DESK Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) is involved in the bank robbery incidents in Ruma and Thanchi in Bandarban. He made these remarks at his office in the Secretariat, Dhaka on Wednesday. The home minister said: “KNF is a separatist group and its activities […]Continue Reading

Bandarban Sonali Bank halts operations after robbery, high alert in two districts

April 3, 2024

STAFF REPORTER Sonali Bank has temporarily halted transactions at six of its branches in Bandarban following a robbery. The suspension, effective from Wednesday afternoon, was confirmed by Saiful Aziz, GM (South) of Sonali Bank. The robbery involved 30-40 individuals using two vehicles. In response, branches in the hill districts of Rangamati and Khagrachhari are now […]Continue Reading

Daylight robberies hit Thanchi’s Sonali and Krishi Banks following Ruma incident

April 3, 2024

BANDARBAN CORRESPONDENT After the Sonali Bank in Ruma Upazila was robbed, two more branches of the Sonali and Krishi Banks in Thanchi Upazila, Bandarban, fell victim to daylight robberies on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses say over a hundred armed individuals from the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), a separatist group, fired warning shots before storming the banks. They […]Continue Reading

KNF loots Sonali Bank branch in Bandarban, abducts manager

April 2, 2024

NEWS DESK Members of the militant group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) looted approximately Tk 1.5 crore from Sonali Bank’s branch in Ruma, Bandarban, in a brazen robbery that will surely ramp up tensions in the hills. The incident occurred during Taraweeh prayers. The robbers looted 14 weapons from the Ansar members guarding the bank and […]Continue Reading

High Court orders no more hill-cutting at Sajek

April 2, 2024

NEWS DESK The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to form a monitoring team so that none could cut hills in tourist-belt regions of Sajek Valley in Rangamati without permission from the Department of Environment. The High Court also directed the environment ministry secretary to investigate, by an officer not below the rank of […]Continue Reading