Situation in Khagrachhari now normal: Home Adviser

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK The situation in the hills of Khagrachhari has returned to normal, Home Affairs Adviser Lt. Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury claimed on Tuesday. He made the claim while talking to reporters after a meeting at his ministry regarding recent violence in Guimara upazila of the district. Responding to journalists’ questions, the adviser said […]Continue Reading

Section 144 to be lifted if blockade called off: Khagrachari DC

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Khagrachari Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate ABM Iftekharul Islam Khondakar on Tuesday said the Section 144 imposed in the district would be considered for immediate withdrawal once the blockade programme of the local Jumma population is lifted and the situation returns to normal. He added that protesters need to end the blockade for […]Continue Reading

BGB issues statement refuting allegations levelled by Arakan Army; dismisses ‘propaganda’

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has refuted the allegations of the United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), that the paramilitary border force of Bangladesh provides support to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). “These allegations are misleading, as BGB does not […]Continue Reading

No evidence of rape found in medical report of Khagrachhari schoolgirl

September 30, 2025

PARBATTANEWS DESK The medical report of the Marma schoolgirl from Khagrachhari’s Singinala area has found no evidence of rape or gang rape. The three-member medical board of Khagrachhari Sadar Hospital confirmed the matter in a report signed on 28 September. The eighth-grader, aged around 12, was admitted to the hospital on the night of 23 […]Continue Reading

Five-member probe committee formed over Khagrachari violence

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK A five-member committee has been formed to investigate the clashes that erupted in Khagrachari on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of three people, injuries to several others, and the destruction of shops and homes. Khagrachari deputy commissioner ABM Iftekharul Islam Khandaker shared the update during a relief distribution programme at Ramsu Bazar on […]Continue Reading

There’s no anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, CA tells Zeteo

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has binned the allegations of persecutions on Hindu minority in Bangladesh under the interim government. “There is no anti-Hindu violence,” Professor Yunus said in an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan for Zeteo, conducted on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Dismissing Continue Reading

India ‘trying to seize CHT’, says Hannan Masud

September 29, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK India is playing its “final trump card” over Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, or CHT, and is trying to make it unstable, an NCP leader has claimed. Abdul Hannan Masud, senior joint chief coordinator of the National Citizens Party (NCP), alleged that a “fake rape” case had been used to pit the hill […]Continue Reading

CHT Adviser insists on unity amid tensions in Khagrachari

September 28, 2025

NEWS DESK Amid growing tensions following the recent rape of a schoolgirl in Khagrachari, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma has called on both hill communities and Bengali residents to unite in addressing the evolving situation. He made the call during a special law and order meeting held at the Khagrachari District Administration’s […]Continue Reading

Home Ministry condoles Khagrachhari killings, vows justice

September 28, 2025

NEWS DESK The Home Ministry has expressed deep sorrow over the killing of three hilly people in an armed attack by miscreants in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari district on Sunday. In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the ministry also conveyed sympathy over the injuries sustained by an army major, 13 army personnel, the officer-in-charge […]Continue Reading

PCJSS propaganda on human rights situation in CHT

September 23, 2025

PARBATTA DARPAN REPORT The Santu Larma-led Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) on 1 July 2025 released a semi-annual report titled ‘January-June 2025: Human Rights Situation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts,’ alleging widespread violations by both state and non-state actors. The report claimed that between January and June, 103 incidents of human rights violations Continue Reading