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Indigenous debate: A nation’s heart beats in every leaf
The factual words of reports often fail to capture the inward, private world of the “minority.”
25 January 2025, 05:00 AM
Who is 'Indigenous?'
The recent debate on “Indigenousness” has thrown up many questions on the appropriateness of the “Indigenous” identity of the peoples of Bangladesh
24 September 2024, 07:00 AM
2022 proved how far we still are from peace in the CHT
Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated
4 January 2023, 17:30 PM
Protect Mro community from violent land grabbers
The government must punish perpetrators and ensure indigenous land rights
3 January 2023, 10:06 AM
‘Indigenous In the Edge’ outlines lives of 17 ethnic groups in Bangladesh
Members of each community have reviewed the information that attempts to offer insight into the histories, homes, the clans and tribes that make up each community, the food habits and religious and cultural practices, and the languages, written and oral, they employ.
9 August 2022, 14:56 PM
Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.
Indigenous women's traditional knowledge and practices can help us to survive with nature instead of abusing it. In Bangladesh, their inherent value are yet to be fully understood and duly recognised by the scientific community, development practitioners and policymakers alike.
8 August 2022, 15:00 PM
Recipes from across Bangladesh
What better way to spend your weekends than to try your hand at recipes for delectable dishes from our indigenous communities in Bangladesh.
13 November 2021, 05:31 AM
Books exploring the lives of indigenous peoples
The book is a complete treatise on the development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
9 August 2021, 15:46 PM
Their homes burnt, where will they go?
A report published in this daily on March 27 has once again brought to the fore how the vulnerability of indigenous communities is often used as an instrument of exploitation against them.
27 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Mro life on the Sangu bank
The lady of the house carried the first batch of drinking water from the nearby dying Sangu River with her two-month-old daughter in tow.
6 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Keep peace in the hills: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for maintaining a peaceful atmosphere in the hill tracts of the country.
6 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ensure equal rights, dignity
It was their day. They gathered, joined hands and spoke up to draw the government's attention to their demands for their rights and
9 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Leaving home in fear of torture
Fearing torture and harassment allegedly by forest officials, around 187 Bangladeshi indigenous men, women and children of five villages under Kalenga Reserve Forest in Habiganj tried to cross into India on Saturday early morning.
26 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Huge Amazon reserve fires contained
Brazilian officials have managed to contain several forest fires that have destroyed half of an indigenous reserve in the Amazon region.
31 October 2015, 05:26 AM
2 charged with Garo woman’s gang-rape
Rapid Action Battalion presses charges against two persons for gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman in Dhaka on May 21.
23 August 2015, 12:51 PM
Adivasis call for rights (video)
In face of hardships and struggle in everyday life, the population belonging to ethnic minority demands constitutional recognition, equal rights and dignity.
10 August 2015, 06:15 AM
Man kills son, 3 others in Joypurhat
A man allegedly kills his six-year-old son and three members of his in-law's family in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat.
20 June 2015, 02:44 AM
‘Rapists’ of Garo woman on 10-day remand
A Dhaka court places on 10-day remand two people arrested on charge of gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman on May 21.
28 May 2015, 07:14 AM
City of dreams turns nightmare
Condemning the gang-rape of the Garo woman on the night of April 21, eminent citizens of the country say the culture of lack of justice is what drives these incidents.
25 May 2015, 09:12 AM
Indigenous people deprived more in 2014: report
The frequency of violation of civil and political rights to people of the ethnic minority in Bangladesh intensified further during last year, a published report says
27 February 2015, 10:03 AM