3 killed in clashes in Khagrachari
At least three people from Chakma and Tripura communities were killed in clashes in Dighinala and Khagrachari sadar in Khagrachari district between Thursday afternoon and early hours of Friday.
At least three people from Chakma and Tripura communities were killed in clashes in Dighinala and Khagrachari sadar in Khagrachari district between Thursday afternoon and early hours of Friday.
Security was beefed up in Dighinala upzila on Friday, a day after over 50 shops and other establishments were set on fire during clashes following the death of a Bengali man, Md Mamum, in a mob beating.
THE reluctance of successive governments at fully implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord has remained a distressing issue for ethnic minorities living in the hill districts. It has been almost 27 years since the peace treaty Accord was signed. A large number of ethnic minority people once again demanded the full implementation of the accord, signed...
People from national minority groups on Wednesday in Khagrachari participated in the ‘March for Identity’, demanding the full implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord and constitutional recognition of their identities...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday called upon all Paharis-Bengalis to work together as brothers, saying that terrorists and illegal occupants had no room in BNP...
Death toll in the flash floods in the 11 affected districts rose to 59 as five more deaths were reported on Saturday.
A total of 416 mobile towers out of 14,551, in eleven flood affected district have remained out of order due to flood, according to the Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission...
Members of the Bangladesh Army have rescued around 2,000 flood-affected people through day-long rescue operation in Khagrachari...
Low-lying areas of Khagrachhari have been inundated again due to incessant rains in the last 24 hours...
A landslide in Alutila area of Khagrachari has severely disrupted road connectivity between Khagrachari and the Dhaka-Chattogram highway...
The low-lying areas of Khagrachhari sadar upazila and municipality area have been inundated due to torrential rainfall and onrush of water from the upstream, leaving 1500 people stranded...
An activist of United People’s Democratic Front was shot dead by miscreants at Santi Bikash Karbaripara in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district on early Saturday...
Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested two more suspects at a Kali temple in a remote hilly area of Khagrachari in connection with the murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...
Road communications between Sajek in Rangamati and Khagrachari’s Dighinala remained suspended for eight hours on Tuesday due to landslides, triggered by heavy overnight rain, on the Sajek-Dighinala road in Rangamati’s Baghaichari upazila...
A fire service worker lost his life while cutting uprooted trees on a road in the Alutila area of Khagrachari on Monday night...
A mother and her son were killed by lightning strike at their home in village Madhyabetchhari of Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari district on early Sunday...
The three-day traditional 'Baisabi Festival’ of the people of different ethnic communities in Khagrachari began on Friday....