At least 17 dead after Rohingya boat breaks up off Myanmar: rescuers

August 10, 2023

At least 17 people drowned when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state broke up at sea this week, rescuers said Thursday. Thousands of Rohingya risk their lives each year making perilous sea journeys from camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar to try to reach Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia, AFP reports. Byar La, a […]Continue Reading

A chain reaction of misery: How Myanmar’s instability will affect the Indo-Pacific and beyond

October 14, 2022

Major General Md Nayeem A Chowdhury The security and stability of Myanmar is substantially affecting not only its neighbours but it is spreading all over the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Our neighbouring Rakhine State’s stability predominantly revolves around the Rohingya crisis. The primary issue of the Rohingya crisis is identity construction, politically used by the Myanmar Continue Reading

Population Census 2022: A CHT demographic analysis

September 19, 2022

SAYED IBN RAHMAT A comparative analysis of the preliminary report of the Population and Household Census 2022 recently released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the census report of 2011 shows that the Bengali population has increased while the non-Bengali/small ethnic population has decreased in Chattogram Hill Tracts. According to the preliminary report Continue Reading

Two drown in Karnafuli River; another goes missing

May 11, 2022

KAPTAI CORRESPONDENT Two tourists have drowned and another has gone missing as they were swept away by the tide while taking a bath in the Karnafuli River in the Kaptai upazila of Rangamati on Wednesday (May 11). They all hail from Madarbari, Islamia, Sadarghat, Chattogram. According to local sources, six friends, from Chittagong’s Sadarghat, were […]Continue Reading

7 held with 1.2 lakh pieces of yaba tablets in St Martin’s

April 26, 2022

Teknaf Correspondent: Bangladesh Coast Guard has arrested seven people in possession of 102,000 pieces of yaba tablets during a raid near St Martin’s in the Bay of Bengal. The arrested have been identified as Rohingyas Hamid Hossain, Hossain Johar, Md Jobayer, Lal Mohammad, Md Yasin, hailing from Bangladesh Rohingya camps, and Bangladeshi citizens Bashir Ahmed […]Continue Reading

Motorcyclist who disappeared 48 hours ago found dead in Baishari’s remote hilly area

April 20, 2022

Baishari Correspondent A motorcyclist has been found dead 48 hours after he disappeared in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila on Sunday evening (April 17). The dead has been identified as Shahidul Islam, son of Ishaq of Char Para village under Idgarh Union Parishad of Ramu upazila. Police say they recovered his body on Tuesday afternoon (April 19) […]Continue Reading

Sufferings of passport seekers mount as brokers infest Khagrachhari Passport Office

April 19, 2022

Staff Correspondent, Khagrachhari Khagrachhari Regional Passport Office is so much infested with brokers and lobbyists that anybody going there would have an experience like it were the brokers and lobbyists that run the Passport Office –because they are everywhere. For this, passport service recipients suffer so much. If you do not turn to brokers and […]Continue Reading

BSF arrests Bangladeshi teen as he crosses the border to buy chocolate from India

April 18, 2022

News Desk: There is no doubt about the fact that a piece of chocolate can instantly lift up our mood. You can have chocolate in any form, and it will always feel like pure bliss. But no matter how much you love having chocolate, would you ever cross borders for it? If you think this […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s ex-army officer calls Rohingya crackdown ‘genocide,’ offers to testify

April 17, 2022

Captain Nay Myo Thet served in Myanmar’s military for nearly six years in Rakhine state but defected in December and relocated to an area under the control of anti-junta Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) forces. In 2016, a military crackdown forced some 90,000 Rohingya to flee Rakhine state and cross into neighboring Bangladesh, while a larger one in 2017 […]Continue Reading

New separatist group set to emerge in Chittagong Hill Tracts

April 11, 2022

Mehadi Hassan Palash: A new separatist group is poised to formally emerge as Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts or CHT during the upcoming rainy season, which they believe to be auspicious for starting anything, Parbattanews has learnt. They aim at launching an armed movement for establishing a fully autonomous state in […]Continue Reading