Khagrachhari

Sajek, Khagrachhari open to tourists after month-long restriction

The tourism restriction imposed in Sajek valley of Rangamati and Khagrachhari for over a month was lifted today

Khagrachhari AL leader, local admin stand by mother who tried to “sell son”

Sonali Chakma went to a local market of Khagrachhari on August 11 to “sell her six-year-old son at Tk 12,000” due to financial crisis.

Illegal sand extraction: 2 police personnel hurt in attack on mobile court in Khagrachhari

Two police personnel were injured after a few men suspected to be illegally extracting sand attacked a mobile court drive at Perachhara area of Khagrachhari.

Khagrachhari gang-rape: Rapists are members of a robbery gang, police say

All nine accused in the gang-rape of a Chakma girl in Khagrachhari are members of a robbery gang, police said today.

UNO in Khagrachhari takes lease of khas land flouting law

The upazila nirbahi officer of Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari has allegedly misused his power and leased five acres of khas land of the government and razed a hill for making road, violating the rules in this regard.

5 hurt as home returnees beaten up in Khagrachhari allegedly by cops

Five people sustain injuries as police allegedly beat up some people who were trying to return to their homes in Khagrachhari after their workplaces in Chattogram shut down.

Water running dry in hills

Every day, 30-year-old Ruposhi Chakma has to walk three kilometres to reach a well, to fetch water for her five-member family. In Chela Chhara village in Rangamati's Kawkhali upazila where she lives, there isn't a nearby water source anymore. An increasing

UPDF enforces daylong road blockade in Khagrachhari

United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) and its like-minded indigenous organisations enforce a daylong road and waterway blockade in Khagrachhari protesting the killing of Mithun Chakma, an Adivasi human rights defender.

A leader in education

Six-year-old Al Amin from remote Nurul Islam Sardar Para in Khagrachari's Matiranga upazila was used to working in his father's grocery

June 28, 2015
June 28, 2015

UPDF man shot dead in Khagrachhari

Unknown miscreants gun down an activist of United Peoples Democratic front (UPDF) in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari.

May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015

3 siblings die inhaling toxic gas in Khagrachhari

Three brothers die after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank in Mahalchhari upazila of Khagrachhari.

April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015

Adivashi new year procession faces obstruction

Law enforcers obstruct indigenous people of Khagrachhari from bringing out a procession marking ‘Biju’ festival as they failed to show the copy of the permission for holding the programme.

March 22, 2015
March 22, 2015

15 police officers transferred

The government transferred 15 police officers to different positions in the latest reshuffle.

March 16, 2015
March 16, 2015

11 sent to jail over Khagrachhari clash

A Khagrachhari court sends 11 accused to jail for their alleged involvement in attacking law enforcers.

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