No possibility of lifting ban on AL activities soon: Asif Nazrul

October 2, 2025

NEWS DESK Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr. Asif Nazrul has denied the chance of lifting ban on activities of the fallen fascist Awami League soon. The adviser said while replaying to queries of journalists after visiting a Puja Mandap at Sree Sree Sankar Math in Barishal city. The adviser said when a party’s […]Continue Reading

Authorities still restrict movement in parts of Khagrachari

October 2, 2025

NEWS DESK People’s movement remained restricted until Wednesday in parts of Khagrachari, where tension ran high following recent unrest that saw three indigenous people get killed and houses and other establishments burned. The district administration launched an investigation into the unrest on Wednesday. After visiting the Swanirbhar Bazar around 5:30 pm on Continue Reading

Indian video misrepresented as Khagrachhari incident: FactWatch

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK FactWatch, a Bangladesh-based independent fact-checking organisation, has identified a concerted attempt to create confusion and spread rumors by falsely claiming a video filmed in India as Khagrachhari incident. The investigation team of the fact-checking organisation found that the video, which went viral on Facebook, was actually filmed in Unakoti, located in Continue Reading

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