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Rohinga Camp. Photo: Collected

Hill deforestation leaves Rohingya camps vulnerable to deadly landslides

The risk has intensified this year, with continuous rain, flash floods, and landslides between 4 and 9 July killing 15 Rohingyas, injuring 18 others, and affecting 26,119 people across the camps,...

Opsarius bendelisis (Hamilton's Barila) in Dholai River area. Photo: Colleted

Rare glimpse of hill river fish diversity in Sylhet’s Sada Pathor, Jaflong

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

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

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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

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

Man fined Tk5 lakh for cutting hill in Chattogram

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

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

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

Representational image. File Photo: Collected

HC asks for details of all hills in Chattogram

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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

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

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