The administration has been demolishing illegally built houses in the hills each year but they are being reconstructed, exposing their inhabitants to high landslide risks during the rains. A deadly ...

Owners of 17 hills prone to landslides were given a month-long deadline, ending on May 15, to remove 835 families and empty the hills. International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples today / ...

Environmentalists say residential areas in Chittagong city and its neighbourhood are in danger of facing landslides this monsoon because the mountains around it are coming loose. Very little seems to ...

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Indigenous leaders and activists have slammed the Bangladeshi government for not implementing a peace accord signed in 1997 that was supposed to give them land and respect. The failure to fulfill the ...

To avert loss of life during the upcoming rainy season, authorities concerned have decided to relocate people living at the foothills, amid grave landslide risks. They also have decided to cut all ...

Morning sunlight on the misty valleys turned the forested slopes into a tapestry of gold. On a hilltop, a lone figure emerged, descending a snake-like trail in the distance. The figure hoisted his ...

The Department of Environment has fined three entities, including AK Khan Group of Companies, Tk664,000 for razing hills in Khulshi police station area of Chittagong. At the same time, a person named ...

Eastern Bangladesh has been the scene of clashes between local tribal peoples and Bangladeshi soldiers for quite some time. In the last few decades Bengali settlers have been arriving in great numbers ...

A landslide in Chittagong Hill Tracts, South Bangladesh, left over 150 people dead this week. The death toll is certain to rise as the ethnic tribal and minority population, cut off from the rest of ...