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Hills buzz from Bizu fest

The entire Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region wore festive look as the three-day traditional 'Bizu' festival of the indigenous communities, began on Wenesday with great enthusiasm and festivity.Indigenous people celebrated ‘Ful Bizu’, first day of the three-day festival through ...

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All must work together to ensure racial harmony

Everybody has to be worked together for the greater interest of ensuring racial harmony in the society. Along with majority Bangla speaking people, there are eleven indigenous communities living in hills who speak in their ten own languages that enriched the cultural diversity in the country. So, it...

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Bizu fest begins in CHT

The entire Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) wore a festive look as the three-day traditional 'Bizu' festival of the indigenous communities, has begun on Tuesday with great enthusiasm and festivity.Traditionally the indigenous people observe ‘Ful Bizu’,festival on the first day of the...

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Fish breeding rises at Kaptai Lake

Fish production at Kaptai Lake has remarkably increased since the last 10 years after it creation in 1960, earning an amount of average revenue Tk 15 crore in a single year, fulfilling the hundred percent demand of the local consumers.The lake is mostly famous for producing fish in a fresh water bod...

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Reinforcement of ‘ethnic quota’ in govt job demanded

Demanding reinforcement of “Ethnic Quota” in governments’ first and second class jobs, Parbatya Chattogram Nagorik Committee (a platform for the citizens in Chittagong Hill Tracts) and Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Network (BIPNet) sent a memorandum to the prime minister on ...

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Bumper yield brings smile to Jhum farmers in CHT

Bumper harvest in almost all the ‘Jum Farms’ in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) this year, has brought smiles for the traditional ‘Jum farmers’.Like previous years, Jum (shifting cultivation) was cultivated in vast areas in three hill districts of CHT---Rangamati, Bandarban ...

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‘Services of police must be taken to doorsteps’

Services of police must be taken at doorsteps of the mass people for the interest of ensuring smooth law and order in the society as well as establishing rule of law in the country. Every member of our police force has to be worked with humanity, sincerity and integrity in this regard. There were wr...

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Allegation of irregularities surfaces in Literacy Project

Countless allegations have surfaced against an implementing partner of local non-government organisation (NGO) during execution of “Basic Literacy Project” in Rangamati. Ashika Manbik Unnayan Kendra (Ashika Development Associates) implemented the project a year ago in fiscal year 20...

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Tree plantation prog launched

On the occasion of birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a tree plantation programme was formally inaugurated on Sunday.Minister for Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Ministry Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing inaugurated it through video conference from his office conference ...

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Rice provided for auto-rickshaw drivers again in Rangamagti

The CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers were provided with food assistance for the second time at Rangamati Auto-rickshaw Workers Union and Drivers Welfare Association Office at Reserve Bazar in the town on Sunday morning.Currently, the entire country has been going through amidst severe crisis since the ...

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Army distributes relief among ill-fated people

With the spirits of humanity in this harsh time of coronavirus outbreak worldwide, army from Rangamati region distributed relief among the ill-fated people in the hilly district town on Saturday.Many people in the district headquarters have become jobless and confined due to ongoing ‘Lockdown&...

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Army launches disinfection drive in Rangamati

In a bid to build awareness among the common people about the deadly Coronavirus and keeping the environment safe from the possible spread of this virus, Bangladesh army units from Rangamati region launched a programme of spraying water based disinfectants in different roads, educational institution...

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Drives continue against illegal logging in Rangamati

Chittagong Hill Tracts South Forest Division has been playing a significant role in stopping illegal timber trade and earning government revenue in Rangamati district over the past one and a half years. The concerned authority has continued drives against illicit timber business, unscrupulous and di...

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Govt implementing massive dev projects in hills

To bring an end into the two-decade more long bush war in hills and restoring standing peace in the region, the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina made the historic Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) accord on December 2 in 1997. As per the agreement, our government has been trying to execute all the provi...

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22, 090 applications submitted since CHT Land Commission’s inception

Justice Anwar-ul Haque, Chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Land Dispute Resolution Commission (CHTLDRC), on Wednesday said that proceedings of the submitted applications over land dispute would begin from December 23.He was briefing the local journalists after 6th meeting held at Rangamati Circuit H...

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Coordinated efforts for sustainable water resource management in CHTs

Speakers at a seminar have opined that comprehensive efforts need to ensure sustainable water resources management in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHTs). For this reason, the water resources must be preserved and protected from dying and pollution. The seminar was held under the title ‘Sus...

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Flash flood submerges huge CHT areas

Vast areas of the three districts of Chattogram Hill Tracts – Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari – got submerged under water on Friday due to flash flood triggered by incessant downpour for over a week.In Rangamati, two persons were reportedly washed away by the current of Kaptai Lake...

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Coordinated efforts needed to fight against food adulteration

Speakers at a workshop said that coordinated effort is needed to fight against food adulteration. Journalists can play a vital role through publishing reports on agriculture sector in which different problems faced by the farmers at field level and make them aware about bad impact of toxic chemicals...

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Implement CHT peace accord immediately

Leaders of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) and its front organisations reiterated their demand for complete implementation of the landmark Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) accord without further delay for the greater interest of the hilly people.It is now demand of the time to execute t...

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Fishing ban on Kaptai Lake from May 1

The district administration in a meeting imposed a three-month ban on all kinds of fishing in the Kaptai Lake which is going to be effect from first May to first week of August this year.The fishermen as well as public are strictly prohibited not to catch all species of fishes on Kaptai Lake for the...