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STAFF REPORTER A faction of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) is reportedly conducting behind-the-scenes activities in Dhaka aimed at influencing the outcome of an ongoing Supreme Court case related to the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation, 1900 (also known as the Hill Tracts Manual). According to sources familiar with the matter, a review petition […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft safely landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Dhaka without one of its wheels, as the wheel came off from the Dhaka-bound airliner shortly after it took off from the Cox’s Bazar airport. Biman Bangladesh Airlines general manager for public relations ABM Rawshan Kabir said […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday pushed at least 60 more people into Bangladesh through separate bordering areas in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts amid heightened security measures along the border. Of them, 16 were pushed into Bangladesh through a bordering point at Karaballa village under the upazila Kanaighat border in Sylhet and 44 […]Continue Reading
PARBATTANEWS DESK Parbatya Chattogram Chhatra Sangsad (PCCS) on Sunday staged a demonstration at Dhaka University demanding a complete ban on the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) and its activities, branding it an armed separatist organisation responsible for destabilising the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The protest was held around 5:00pm at the Raju Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The Election Commission (EC) on Monday issued a gazette notification suspending the registration of the Bangladesh Awami League as a political party. EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed confirmed the decision to reporters following a meeting of the Commission. “This decision follows the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs,” he said. According […]Continue Reading