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Amid the volatility that erupted from the ethnic conflict in the district, coupled with a blockade and transport strike, all the 50 hotels in Rangamati are witnessing a complete halt in business, with visitor arrivals plummeting to zero. Photo: Md Minhaj Uddin/TBS
Bangladesh

Unrest in hills: Tourism, hotel business in Rangamati at a standstill 

Businesses yet to turn normal after Section 144 withdrawal 

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

DoE files four cases against 39 for illegal hill cutting in Chattogram

An area clear-felled for tobacco cultivation on the bank of the river Sangu in Bandarban. The chemicals used in tobacco farming also pollute the creeks – the main source of drinking water for hill communities. Photo: Syed Zakir Hussain
Panorama

How tobacco farming is speeding up deforestation in the hills

An excavator atop a hill in Nanupur area of Fatikchari upazila in Chattogram. Photo: TBS
Environment

Man fined Tk5 lakh for cutting hill in Chattogram

Authorities to prepare list of illegal occupiers of hills in Chattogram city
Bangladesh

Authorities to prepare list of illegal occupiers of hills in Chattogram city

File photo of the High Court division building of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. Photo: Collected
Court

Stop cutting hill for journalists’ housing in Cox’s Bazar: HC

The High Court Division of Bangladesh. File Photo: Collected
Court

HC asks for details of all hills in Chattogram

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Govt official accused of razing hill in Cox’s Bazar

These days, tourists visiting Bandarban prefer to travel to the hamlets where the indigenous people live instead of the artificially made tourism centre in the heart of the city. Photo: TBS
Industry

Community tourism flourishes as hills attract more tourists

Till the 1990s, Bain Textile was at its peak with products being exported to different countries and at least 20 other companies following in its footsteps. Photo: Noor A Alam
Panorama

Bain Textile: A pioneering Hill Tracts enterprise now struggling to survive