5-day hilly fruit fair begins
Chattogram hill tracts affairs adviser Supradip Chakma on Wednesday said that a hub of hill fruits would be set up in the capital to make the fruits available for city people...
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Bangladesh women qualify for Asian Cup
Bangladesh have qualified for the AFC Women's Asian Cup after the qualifier match between Bahrain and Turkmenistan ended in a 2-2 draw in Yangon on Wednesday.
Police yet to record online GD filed over attack
Kawkhali police are yet to record an online general diary, filed by the victim on Saturday over Thursday鈥檚 attack on activists at Kawkhali in Rangamati on their way back from a rally demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma...
Attack on activists demanding justice for Kalpana condemned
Political and rights organisations on Friday condemned the attack on three rights and student activists by three Bengali people while returning after addressing a rally at Kawkhali in Rangamati demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma on Thursday.
Protesters attacked on way back from rally
Three rights and student activists who addressed a rally in Kawkhali upazila town in Rangamati demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma were attacked allegedly by a group of unidentified Bengali people at Betchari under the upazila Thursday afternoon...
Justice eludes Kalpana Chakma
Justice has remained elusive for the last three decades for the family of Kalpana Chakma, organising secretary of the Hill Women鈥檚 Federation, as she has remained traceless till date since her abduction at dead of night on June 12, 1996 from her home in Baghaichari of Rangamati...
Justice for Kalpana Chakma demanded
Hill women at Sajek in Rangamati on Monday demanded justice for Kalpana Chakma who was abducted from her home in June 1996 and has remained missing since then...
Freedom is a verb
A STUDENT-LED procession against violence and discrimination was making its way through the bazaar when it was suddenly ambushed by a violent mob. Chaos erupted as the crowd scattered in all directions. Anik Chakma, a 17-year-old higher secondary student, ran for his life, but there was nowhere to escape 鈥� they were surrounded. He tried to hide in a nearby...
HC directs DIP DG to issue Michael Chakma鈥檚 passport
The High Court on Thursday asked the director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports to collect the fingerprint of national minority rights activist Michael Chakma and consider issuing his passport within seven days...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
Enforced disappearance: Michael Chakma files complaint against聽Hasina, others
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front leader Michael Chakma on Monday formally lodged a written complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor, accusing former prime minister...
Enforced Disappearance: Michael Chakma files complaints against Hasina
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front leader Michael Chakma on Wednesday lodged a verbal complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal, accusing deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of involvement in his enforced disappearance...
CHT District Council must work for people鈥檚 welfare: Supradip
Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs adviser Supradip Chakma on Tuesday addressed the newly appointed chairman and members of the Chittagong Hill Tracts District Council, emphasising the need for working for the people鈥檚 welfare...
Chakma woman raped in Ramgarh
National minority women on Friday protested at an incident of rape of a woman from the Chakma community in Khagrachari鈥檚 Ramgarh upazila.
Govt to resolve schooling problem in CHT: adviser Supradip
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma on Friday said that the government will mitigate the crisis of schooling in Chittagong Hill Tracts....
Appointment of Supradip Chakma as adviser opposed
A group of national minority people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday protested at the appointment of the CHT Development Board chairman Supradip Chakma as adviser to the newly formed interim government...
UPDF leader Michael Chakma released from 鈥楢ynaghor鈥� after five years
Michael Chakma, a leader of the Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political party United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, has been freed from his secret detention in what known as 鈥楢ynaghor鈥� for more than five years following the deposition of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister...
Revision petition accepted, hearing on Nov 17
A Rangamati court on Monday accepted a petition for a revision of the rejection of the case for the abduction of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based woman leader Kalpana Chakma, who...
Missing from Rangamati home, Chakma girl rescued from Dhaka
The police rescued an ethnic minority girl from a flat in Uttara in Dhaka on Wednesday early morning, seven days after she had gone missing....
High-level probe into Kalpana Chakma abduction demanded
Speakers, including academics, on Wednesday demanded an immediate high-level investigation into the abduction of Hill Women鈥檚 Federation organising secretary Kalpana Chakma, who was abducted in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichari on June 12, 1996...
Legal bureaucracy denies justice to Kalpana Chakma
TWENTY-EIGHT years after, the family and comrades of Kalpana Chakma, a Hill Women鈥檚 Federation leader, still await justice as authorities have failed to resolve the abduction case. Kalpana was allegedly picked up on June 12, 1996 by a group of armed men, including a junior army officer, from her house in Rangamati...
No trace of聽Kalpana Chakma in 28 years
It has been 28 years that Hill Women鈥檚 Federation organising secretary Kalpana Chakma, who went missing after her abduction in聽 Baghaichari of Rangamati on...
Why shouldn鈥檛 CHT cry out for justice?
TODAY is the 28th anniversary of the abduction of political activist Kalpana Chakma...
Cancellation of trial dismissal demanded
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a protest rally in Khagrachari on Friday, demanding that the order, issued by a Rangamati court on April 23 dismissing the trial over the disappearance of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma, be cancelled...
National boxing champion Sura Krishna Chakma joins UCB
Champion boxer Sura Krishna Chakma has joined United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB). During an illustrious career of more than a decade, Sura has not only made a mark at the national level but has also participated in numerous international events as a proud representative of the nation.
Protesters condemn dismissal of case
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a mass rally in Rangamati on Monday, protesting at the dismissal of the disappearance case of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma by a Rangamati court on April 23...
Commission condemns dismissing Kalpana Chakma case
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission in a statement on Sunday expressed disappointment at clearing of all suspects in a case filed over the...
Kalpana abduction case dismissal makes travesty of justice
THE dismissal of the case of abduction of Hill Women鈥檚 Federation leader Kalpana Chakma 28 years after the event is a travesty of justice. A Rangamati judicial magistrate鈥檚 court on April 23 accepted the final report which..
Kalpana Chakma abduction case dismissed
A Rangamati court on Tuesday accepted the final report submitted by the police clearing all suspects in a case filed over the disappearance of...
Three-day 鈥楤aisabi鈥� festival begins in Khagrachari
The three-day traditional 'Baisabi Festival鈥� of the people of different ethnic communities in Khagrachari began on Friday....