UPDF extortionist held in Khagrachhari

August 4, 2022

DESK REPORT The army has arrested a terrorist of the United People’s Democratic Front or UPDF in Khagrachhari. Named Amar Jyoti Dewaan, 48, he was arrested from Giriful area of the hill district during a raid on Thursday (July 3), sources said. Tipped off that four to five extortionists of the UPDF were spending night […]Continue Reading

One killed in gunfight between UPDF factions in Khagrachhari

July 18, 2022

STAFF REPORTER One person was killed in a gunfight between two armed rival groups of UPDF (Core) and UPDF (Democratic) Taindong area of Matiranga upazila of Khagrachhari. The gunfight took place for around an hour from around 5:00pm on Monday (July 18) near the Tanakka Para BGB camp in the union of Matiranga upazila. On […]Continue Reading

Army distributes relief to flood-hit families in Khagrachhari

June 20, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI The army has distributed relief to the flood-affected families in Dighinala. On Monday (June 20, 2022) at noon, the Dighinala Army Zone distributed it to people at various shelter centres and among waterlogged families. The flood situation in Dighinala of Khagrachhari is deteriorating due to the continuous onrush of water from the […]Continue Reading

Civil society for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in camps

June 15, 2022

NEWS DESK Civil society members at a webinar have called for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in Cox’s Bazar camps. A collective plan should also be devised in order to cope with the reduced foreign aid for the refugees, they told the webinar titled “Humanitarian Response to Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)” organised […]Continue Reading

UPDF’s offer of peace talks with govt welcomed

June 14, 2022

NEWS DESK An armed rebel group in Bangladesh has offered peace talks with the government in a move hailed by the experts as significant, Al Jazeera reports. The United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), based in the country’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in the south last week submitted a 66-page peace proposal to the government through […]Continue Reading

Reports of several casualties during fierce JSS-UPDF gunfights go viral

June 11, 2022

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Reports of massive gunfights between JSS (Santu) and UPDF (Prasit) in Dighinala and Panchhari of Khagrachhari resulting in several casualties have gone viral on social media since Saturday morning. Although neither side has officially acknowledged this, various Facebook IDs, pages and groups run by them have claimed that gunfights between them did Continue Reading

Khagrachhari trader fined for hoarding 57,000 litres of soybean oil

May 6, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT A mobile court on Friday (May 6) fined a trader Tk 100,000 for illegally hoarding some 57,000 litres of soybean oil in Khagrachhari’s Ramgarh upazila. The trader was identified as Fazlul Karim Patwari, the owner of Messrs Khan Traders in Sonaipur Bazar of Ramgarh Municipality. He was fined for raking in profits by […]Continue Reading

Humanitarian aid provided in Guimara region ahead of Eid

April 27, 2022

Underprivileged people have been provided with humanitarian assistance in the Guimara region of Khagrachhari ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. The assistance has been provided at the initiative of the 24th Artillery Brigade (Guimara Region) of the army. At a ceremony on Wednesday (April 27), 266 underprivileged families received sarees, lungis, panjabis, shemai, sugar, milk and pulao 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

Fire breaks out at Guimara’s Triratna Buddha Bihar

April 17, 2022

A fire broke out at Triratna Buddha Bihar in Guimara Upazila of Khagrachhari on Sunday (April 19). The temple there, as well as three houses next to it, was reduced to ashes in the fire that took place around 2:00 pm. However, no casualties were reported. The fire is believed to have started from an […]Continue Reading