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NEWS DESK Police arrested a Rohingya youth accused of being prime suspect in an abduction ring at a location at Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar on Friday afternoon. Md Ismail, 34, a resident of a camp for forcibly displaced Rohingya people living in Bangladesh, also had six arrest warrants and accused in six murder cases […]Continue Reading
PARBATTA NEWS DESK The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a project worth Tk 652.55 crore to enhance water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management services for displaced Rohingya communities and local residents in 11 upazilas of Cox’s Bazar and Noakhali, Bonik Barta reports. The project, titled Integrated Services and Continue Reading
STAFF REPORTER The government has decided to rename seven cultural institutions across Bangladesh—currently operating under different titles—with the aim of preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the country’s khudro nri-gosthi (small ethnic groups). The new unified name will be Jati Boichitro Institute (Institute of Ethnic Diversity). The decision was confirmed Continue Reading
PARBATTA NEWS DESK BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed has said the party has proposed that Members of Parliament be allowed to vote independently through secret ballot in the presidential election—one of several reform suggestions presented to the National Consensus Commission. Speaking at a discussion organised by Nagorik Oikya at the National Press Club on Continue Reading