March 24, 2021
Gone with the blaze
Fleeing a crackdown by the Myanmar military, 35-year-old Chubera Begum, along with her four children, arrived in Ukhiya from Rakhine State in August, 2017. She then found shelter in a tent at...
January 5, 2021
Parents get to bury Lakingme after 25 days
The family of Lakingme Chakma finally received her body yesterday, 25 days after her mysterious death, and buried her in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
December 4, 2020
Rohingya Relocation: First batch off to Bhasan Char
The government yesterday began transferring Rohingyas to Bhasan Char from the congested camps in Ukhia and Teknaf where about a million of them have been living.
October 4, 2020
Pay or Die
With suspended officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das now behind bars over the killing of retired army major Sinha, stories are unearthed about the unwritten law of the...
September 9, 2020
Facilities in Bhashan Char: Rohingya leaders satisfied after trip
Rohingya leaders, who went on a “go-and-visit” to Bhashan Char housing project, said they were happy with the facilities there and that those were far better than their current living conditions in...
August 18, 2020
Witnesses to Sinha Killing: Cops out to use them as pawns
Nestled between hills on one side and the sea on the other, Marishbunia village in Teknaf’s Baharchhara union is pure beauty. Babbling brooks, mossy arched bridges and hibiscus shrubs in full bloom...
August 9, 2020
Case Against Shipra: Two witnesses ‘forced’ to sign on blank papers
Witnesses in a narcotic case, filed against Stamford University student Shipra Debnath, claimed they were forced to sign on blank papers.
July 2, 2020
Armed police battalions take charge of Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar
Two special police battalions, formed to ensure security of Rohingyas, have finally taken over the responsibility to ensure law and order inside the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
February 3, 2020
30 drug dealers to surrender today
At least 30 top drug dealers, who have been in police’s “safe house” for the last seven months, are set to surrender in Cox’s Bazar today.
November 24, 2019
96 ‘robbers, arms dealers’ surrender
With one police jeep in front and another behind, three buses carried 96 arms makers and dealers along with robbers to Kalarmarchhara Union Parishad ground in Maheshkhali so that they surrender...