Residents of the hilly areas on both sides of Chimbuk-Neelgiri road in Bandarban have been facing a severe water crisis amid the ongoing hot spell.
Amid widespread fear in the hills of Bandarban following last week’s bank robberies and attacks on security personnel, the government has said it will be tough on the regional armed group Kuki-Chin National Front.
The strong influence of armed group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) in Chin and Rakhine states of Myanmar and Mizoram and Manipur states of India has led to its creation in Bangladesh, said security analyst Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain.
Law enforcers along with army and border guards will start a joint operation against armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in Bandarban from today.
An armed group in a pickup attacked a joint checkpoint of the army and police early today, triggering a gunfight on a hill in Alikadam of Bandarban hours after gunmen sprayed bullets at Thanchi Police Station resulting in an hour-long gun battle.
Criminals, who stormed the Ruma Upazila Parishad complex on Tuesday night, took 14 weapons, including two light machine guns, of security personnel but failed to take any money from the Sonali Bank branch there, investigators said.
Residents of Bandarban district, including the indigenous communities residing in the hilly areas, are facing an acute crisis of drinking water as most sources of groundwater have dried up.
Says Ching Ra Mro, one of the last Rengmitchya-speaking men, as the community celebrates International Mother Language Day
Residents of Ghumdhum border area in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila have been passing sleepless nights for the last few days as they feel insecure due to fighting between Myanmar security forces and rebel group Arakan Army across the border.
Nestled in the forest land on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila lies Likri Para.
Many residents of Remakri union in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila still lack access to healthcare and education, this correspondent observed after visiting 18 villages in ward 6 and 9 of the union recently.
Residents of 18 remote villages in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila have no access to healthcare and education
Amid a ban on cattle import, smuggling from Myanmar and India continues unabated ahead of the Eid.
A gang has allegedly been cutting trees for years in different neighbourhoods of the indigenous Mro community in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.
Over 400 indigenous people of six villages have been fleeing from their residences ever since eight people were killed during a “shootout” between two armed groups at Rowangchhari upazila in Bandarban on Thursday night.
He was a youngster with big dreams, hailing from Tangpru Para of Bandarban. Thoai Sing Hla Marma came to Dhaka in 2014, to pursue his goal of becoming a civil engineer, and got admitted to the National Polytechnic Institute.
Rapid Action Battalion arrested 17 members of newly formed militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya and three members of Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) following a daylong gunfight in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila yesterday.
At least eight families of the Mro community, whose houses were allegedly set ablaze and vandalised by people of a rubber plantation in a village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila, are now living under the open sky, in the chilling winter cold.
