Mong Sing Hai Marma

Nearly four decades after being established as a sub-jail in 1986, the Bandarban District Jail, designed to accommodate 114 inmates, is now holding almost five times that number, putting its limited infrastructure and basic services under growing strain.

Overcrowding fuels health risks, tensions and sufferings inside jail

Once an import-dependent drink, coffee is taking root in Bangladesh’s hills and plains

DPHE staff say executive engineer instructed them not to accept applications in his absence

Nearly six months after assuming office, the BNP government has reconstituted the interim hill district councils in Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari, appointing party leaders and supporters to the three key local government bodies.

Fifty-four years after Bangladesh’s independence, basic services remain out of reach for many families from the Khyang, Tripura, Tanchangya, and Chakma communities

Kainwai Mro, 2, and elder sister Dongwai Mro, 4, lie side by side on a narrow bed in the isolation ward of Bandarban Sadar Hospital, both undergoing treatment for measles.

The siblings continue treatment at hospital, unaware they have lost their mother