KAPTAI CORRESPONDENT, RANGAMATI Rangamati’s Kaptai Army Zone has distributed relief assistance to the families affected by natural calamities. A total of 147 members of 30 families taking shelter at Kaptai High School received the assistance that includes rice, flour, pulses, soybean oil, sugar and salt on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. The acting commander of the […]Continue Reading
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DESK REPORT There is no mention in the Peace Accord that police cannot be deployed in the camps abandoned by the Army in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Rangamati MP Dipankar Talukdar has said. “Nevertheless, many people are saying that police deployment runs contrary to the Peace Accord and it violates the Peace Accord,” he told […]Continue Reading
STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RANGAMATI Last rites of firefighters Mithu Dewan and Nipon Chakma, who lost their lives in an inferno at a container depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, have been performed in their home district – Rangamati. Prior to this, they were given a guard of honour by the fire service. Mithu and Nipon’s funerals were held […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Two of the firefighters who died trying to douse an inferno at an inland container depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong hail from Rangamati. They are Mithu Dewan, 50, a native of Rangamati’s West Tribal area, and Nipon, from Mantripara in the city’s College Gate area. Mithu worked at Kumira Fire Service Station. […]Continue Reading
STAFF CORRESPONDENT Khagrachhari MP Kujendra Lal Tripura has called for moving Bengalis out of cluster villages and settling them elsewhere in the Chattogram Hill Tracts. “They should be rehabilitated in such a way that they can live peacefully,” he said while speaking at the launching of the APBn Regional Office in Rangamati on Thursday, May […]Continue Reading
STAFF REPORTER Those who dare ignore the power of the people and that of the government are idiots, Bangladesh Inspector General or Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed has said. “Never underestimate the power of the government and the power of the people. Those who dare ignore the power of the people and that of the government […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said Armed Police Battalion (APBn) will work in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to ensure security alongside preventing bloodshed and extortion. “The APBn members will now work in abandoned camps of the Bangladesh Army and ensure security, stop bloodshed and extortion in the hills,” he said this while […]Continue Reading
STAFF REPORTER Major General Saiful Abedin, GOC of the 24th Infantry Division of the Bangladesh Army, has called for introducing a quota that applies to all living in the Chattogram Hill Tracts or CHT. “If there is a quota, it should be for all living in the hill tracts – no matter they are tribals […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said Armed Police Battalion (APBn) will work in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to ensure security alongside preventing bloodshed and extortion. “The APBn members will now work in abandoned camps of the Bangladesh Army and ensure security, stop bloodshed and extortion in the hills,” he said this while […]Continue Reading
STAFF CORRESPONDENT Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is set to lay the foundation stone of the office of the DIG, APBn (Armed Police Battalion) in CHT (Chattogram Hill Tracts) today, Thursday, May 26, 2022. He will lay the foundation stone of the office of the DIG, APBn in Rangamati’s Sukhi Neelganj Police Lines at 10:45am, […]Continue Reading