Armed group behind Rohingya leader’s murder: Bangladesh police

March 18, 2022

AFP/ALJAZEERA Bangladesh police have admitted for the first time that an armed group ordered last year’s murder of a prominent Rohingya leader, saying it was threatened by his growing popularity. The assassination of Mohib Ullah last September sent shockwaves through the sprawling border settlements that house hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya refugees who fled Continue Reading

Illegal arms factory busted in Cox’s Bazar

March 16, 2022

Desk News: An illegal arms factory being run out of a dense forest area in Cox’s Bazar was unearthed by Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday. The tip-off about the factory in Pekua upazila came from an illegal arms supplier who was detained by members of the elite force earlier in the day. The detained was […]Continue Reading

30 makeshift houses, 15 shops burnt in Rohingya camp

March 16, 2022

Desk News: A fire broke out at Rohingya camp-7 in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Friday noon. The fire started at about 12:00pm at a house beside Ukhia TV Tower of camp-7. Four units of Ukhia and Cox’s Bazar fire service doused the fire at about 4:00pm, said Sahadat Hossain, senior station officer of […]Continue Reading

UPDF member Milon Chakma dies of ‘heart attack’

March 16, 2022

Staff Correspondent: A member of the United People’s Democratic Front or UPDF has died in custody. An accused in multiple cases like murder, extortion, arson and firearms, Milon Chakma, 44, ‘died of a heart attack’ around 9:00am on Tuesday, law enforcers have said quoting doctors. A patrol team had arrested him earlier in morning. While […]Continue Reading

UPDF member shot dead in Bandarban

March 16, 2022

Staff Correspondent, Bandarban: A member of the United People’s Democratic Front or UPDF has been shot dead in Bandarban. The deceased was identified as Jwalanta Chakma, 40. Jwalanta Chakma came under a gun attack in the Punorbashopara area of the hill district’s Tonkaboti union around 5:30pm while going home in his motorcycle, and died on […]Continue Reading

UPDF members torch three vehicles in Rangamati protesting fellow’s death

March 16, 2022

Desk Report: Members of the United People’s Democratic Front (Prasit) or UPDF have set fire to three vehicles in Khagrachhari in protests of the death of their fellow Milon Chakma aka Sourav. The incident took place at Babuchhora in the hill district’s Dighinala around 5:00pm on Tuesday, police have said. Fire fighters rushed to the […]Continue Reading