Blockade suspended, section 144 remains
Doctors found 鈥榥o signs of rape鈥� following the examination of a Marma schoolgirl, who was allegedly raped in Khagrachari, according to a report of the government medical board...
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4 sued over grabbing 23.31 acres of Dinajpur nat鈥檒 minority land
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against four people on charges of grabbing 23.31 acres of land belonging to people of national minority communities through fraud and forgery at Bochaganj upazila in Dinajpur...
41 citizens condemn rape of Marma girl, violence in Khagrachari
A group of 41 citizens, including rights activists, journalists, university professors, lawyers, and cultural activists, issued a joint press statement on Tuesday, condemning the rape of a Marma girl in Khagrachari and the subsequent violence that resulted in the deaths of at least three national minority community members.
Nat鈥檒 minorities still in fear
The families of national minorities in Guimara upazila of Khagrachari said that they were passing days in fear after Sunday鈥檚 clashes that left three of the community dead and about 100 shops and houses, mostly belonging to them, burnt...
National minorities fleeing home
Many families from national minority communities in Guimara upazila of Khagrachari fled their homes and went into hiding on Monday in fear of attacks and possible detention by the law enforcement agencies following Sunday鈥檚 violence in Guimara upazila that left...
National minorities urged to follow MN Larma鈥檚 ideals
Human right activists, national minority leaders and professionals on Monday at a discussion in Dhaka city said that Manabendra Narayan Larma fought lifelong for establishing the rights of the national minorities...
Protection of nat鈥檒 minority families demanded
Protesters on Friday formed a human chain condemning the attempt to evict more than a dozen families of Paharia, a national minority community, who have been living on a piece of land in Rajshahi city鈥檚 Mollapara area for over five decades.
Nat鈥檒 minority families fear eviction in Rajshahi
More than a dozen national minority families of Paharia community, who have been living on a piece of land in Rajshahi city鈥檚 Mollapara area for over five decades, now fear eviction from the land, allegedly under pressure from a man claiming ownership of the land...
Shibir draws flak for remarks on role of nat鈥檒 minorities in Liberation War
The left leaning Pratirodh Parshad panel competing in the forthcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections on Sunday criticised Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed panel for allegedly denying the contribution of the national minority communities to the...
BNP pledges safe country for all nat鈥檒 minorities
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that an opportunity had come to establish the fundamental rights of all national minority groups in a fascist-free country.
Nat鈥檒 minorities demand constitutional recognition, end to rights violation
National minority leaders and civil society representatives have iterated their demand for constitutional recognition and an end to repression and rights violation.
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities demand recognition
Speakers, including national minority community leaders, rights activists and academics on Tuesday demanded constitutional recognition of plain land national minority community people as 鈥榠ndigenous鈥� people...
End to torture on national minorities demanded
Students from different national minority communities and other student bodies on Sunday demanded the state stop torture on minority communities.
Constitutional recognition, land commission demanded
National minority communities on Saturday once again reiterated their demand for recognition of national minority people as 鈥榠ndigenous people鈥� in the country鈥檚 constitution and forming a separate land commission for them living in plain land...
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...
Govt should protect, promote minority languages
LITTLE progress in the preservation of 40 national minority languages, which the International Mother Language Institute is mandated to do, and the advancement in multilingual education for national minority children, which the Directorate of Primary Education supervises, largely brings up a glaring government failure. The International Mother Language Institute...
MINORITY LANGUAGES: Hardly any progress in preservation, education
The International Mother Language Institute has made little progress in preserving 40 national minority languages in 14 years since its inception in 2010...
ATTACKS ON NAT鈥橪 MINORITY STUDENTS:聽Expelled member of Nagorik Committee sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Shahadat Farazi Sakib, a recently expelled member of Jatiya Nagorik Committee, to jail over the attack on a group of national minority students in front the National Curriculum and Textbook Board office in Motijheel on January 15.
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities demand rights, security
Representatives from plain land national minority groups on Sunday urged the local government reform commission to ensure their rights and security...
ATTACK ON NAT鈥橪 MINORITY STUDENTS: Students, cultural activists demand justice
National minority leaders, student leaders and cultural activists on Friday demanded exemplary punishment for those who were involved in recent attack on a demonstration by national minority students...
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...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests pour in, citizen rally today
The protests triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration continued for the fourth day in a row on Saturday with the demand for identifying all the attackers.
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests spreading
Amid the growing condemnation triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration, pressing for the re-inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, at least seven individuals were injured again on Thursday when the police swooped on a protest rally tied to the issue in the capital...
NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGE GRAFFITI: 2 confronting platforms to hold demos before NCTB
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Justice, land rights of Santals, nat鈥檒 minorities demanded
The national minority Santals and Bengalis who survived police attacks on November 6, 2016, at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha when they protested against their eviction iterated their...
200 houses, shops set on fire at Dighinala
At least three people were injured and more than 200 houses and shops were set on fire in a clash between Bengali people and national minority communities at Boalkhali of Dighinala in...
鈥楳arch for Identity鈥� demands full implementation of CHT accord
People from national minority groups on Wednesday in Khagrachari participated in the 鈥楳arch for Identity鈥�, demanding the full implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord and constitutional recognition of their identities...
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...
Nat鈥檒 minorities for restoration of 5pc quota in govt job
Leaders of national minority communities on Sunday demanded the reinstatement of 5 per cent quota for national minorities in Class I and II government jobs...
