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

10 days on, Manikchhari businessman still missing

April 16, 2022

Manikchhari Correspondent: On the night of April 5, Md. Abdul Quader, 45, a small businessman, was abducted at Jogyachola in Khagrachhari’s Manikchhari upazila. Now 10 days into his abduction, Bengalis in the area have now become aggrieved at this and threatened to blockade the area permanently. As a result, panic has spread among the tribals. […]Continue Reading

Two courier service staff freed after ransom paid in Ramgar

April 12, 2022

Staff Correspondent, Ramgar Two Sundarban Courier Service staff abducted by tribal miscreants in Khagrachhari’s Ramgar have been released, seemingly after paying ransom. Ramgar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shamsuzzaman and Sundarban Courier Service, Feni Assistant General Manager Maruf Hossain confirmed this. Earlier on Saturday night, a covered van of Sundarban Continue Reading

Two Sundarbans Courier staff abducted: Tk 5 lakh ransom demanded

April 12, 2022

Staff Correspondent, Khagrachhari A covered van driver and a runner of Sundarban Courier Service were abducted at Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari on Saturday evening. The driver was identified as Md Abbas, hailing from Yarapur in Noakhali’s Begumganj and the runner as Md Al Amin, from Uttar Chashara in Bhola’s Tozumiddin. The abductors, who claimed to […]Continue Reading