Anvil Chakma

Purna Mala Tanchangya straps a basket on her back and carries as many pots and pans as possible to go and collect water at least twice a day from a well that is about two to three kilometres away.

A nature lover is working hard to preserve rare varieties of orchids that bloom on the hills in Khagrachhari.

A three-day-long colourful Biju festival of the Chattogram Hill Tracts began in the district yesterday.

Even though the time pineapples usually ripen fall between the months of May and June, the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) get the fruit at its sweetest at this time of the year as well.

The three-day CHT Theatre Festival, organised by Khudro Nrighosti Cultural Institute and supported by Rangamati Hill District Council,

About 300 families at four villages in Naniarchar upazila of the district are in dire straits since the lone bridge they use for daily communications collapsed due to heavy rain and impact of landslides about two years ago.

Madhusudan Talukder started planting orange saplings on two acres of land in Rangamati's Naniarchar upazila in 2007. By 2014, half of his 700 trees yielded fruits ready for sale.

Village common forest (VCF), a system to conserve forest and natural resources through collective efforts of indigenous people, is getting popular in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region as the method significantly contributes to combating deforestation and degradation of ecosystem.

Over a year into the arson attack, the indigenous families in Rangamati's Longadu are yet to get houses. They are still living at small huts beside their burnt houses near a jungle amid great hardship.

Like most graduates, when Rangamati resident Piyal Chakma finished his degree in textiles in 2011, he hoped for a good job.

Rambutan, a tropical fruit closely related to the litchi, has started making its bright colourful appearance in Rangamati.

A signboard on a corner of Simultoli ominously declares: “Identified as a landslide-prone area. Settlement prohibited.” A sudden clap of thunder increases the sense of foreboding.

Indigenous families, who became homeless in last years' arson attack in Longadu upazila, are yet to be rehabilitated.

Biju, the main social festival of the Chakma people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, will bring no cheers for the indigenous community in

Eight long months after the notorious arson attack by Bangalee settlers on indigenous homes and shops in Rangamati's Longadu upazila,

Around four thousand years ago the Inuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples of the North American Arctic invented kayaks. Originally constructed of stitched seal skin stretched over a wooden or whalebone frame, the canoe-like boats

Malta cultivation is becoming very popular with farmers in Baghaichhari upazila of the district as it is a profitable crop.

More than three months after the burning down of indigenous people's houses in Longadu upazila of Rangamati, it now seems to be a

(Our land, our house: This is our Moanoghar. Sad or happy, we live here maintaining our brotherhood.)

Rangamati's 700-square-metre Kaptai Lake once teemed with fish but for many years naturally occurring fish stocks have been in