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
5 November 2024, 07:20 AM

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.
14 August 2022, 11:23 AM

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.
17 February 2021, 14:58 PM

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.
27 September 2020, 12:24 PM

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.
30 July 2020, 14:38 PM

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.
16 April 2020, 14:52 PM

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
24 April 2018, 18:00 PM

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.
6 January 2018, 04:23 AM

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
18 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Change Maker: Dragon fruit kindles hope

Originally from Mexico and nowadays common in Southeast Asia and China, the delectable dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is a relative
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Star editor gets bail in Khagrachhari

The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam secures bail in a Tk 10 crore defamation case in Khagrachhari.
16 March 2016, 07:06 AM

4-yr-old boy dies in flag stand collapse

A four-year-old boy dies after a flag stand collapsed on him at Khagrachhari General Hospital this morning.
2 December 2015, 05:58 AM

Khagrachhari schoolboy dies as blockaders attack mini-truck

A schoolboy dies after falling down from a mini-truck when the vehicle came under the attack of UPDF activists during a road blockade in Khagrachhari Sadar.
1 December 2015, 05:53 AM

Durga Puja: BGB to guard 5 Ctg districts

The authorities have decided to deploy paramilitary BGB in Chittagong, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar from today to ensure security during Durga Puja – the largest religious festival of the Hindus in the country.
17 October 2015, 12:20 PM

Another Arms Haul in CHT

The detention of a miscreant with a huge cache of weapons and ammunition from a remote jungle in Khagrachhari by the army has left us with a sense of foreboding.
8 September 2015, 18:00 PM

5 firearms, 300 bullets found in Khagrachhari, 1 held

Army and police, in a joint drive, seize five firearms, 300 bullets from a remote area in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari.
7 September 2015, 04:34 AM

Flood tightens grip on several districts of Bangladesh

Five more people, including three women and a kid, were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Cox's Bazar town early yesterday, barely a month after five died in landslides in the district.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Accused Ansar man gives confessional statement

Ansar member Rafiqul Islam, who is arrested on allegation of killing his senior colleague Nayak Amir Hossain, has given confessional statement before a court.
5 July 2015, 12:15 PM

Ansar man arrested over killing colleague

The Khagrachhari Ansar man, who allegedly shot dead his colleague after an altercation and fled yesterday, is arrested at Dighinala.
4 July 2015, 11:25 AM

Ansar man shot dead by ‘colleague’ in Khagrachhari

An Ansar member is shot dead allegedly by his colleague in Chowdhury Tila area of Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari.
3 July 2015, 14:49 PM