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Locals are facing water crisis as flow in Panekyang canal in Bandarban Sadar upazila is badly affected due to lifting of huge quantity of water from a 100-foot-deep ring well that a local influential person constructed for running a hotel.
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Around three years ago, 15 families of Chak, a small ethnic community, were driven out of their ancestral dwellings and agricultural land in Shui Jaing Chak Para of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.
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NGO Affairs Bureau has directed all the registered NGOs that have the words “indigenous/adivasi” in their titles to rename themselves by dropping the words.
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A man was trampled to death by wild elephants in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila early yesterday.
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Basic civic amenities still elude the residents of Bandarban town, 35 years after it started functioning as a municipality.
