The Tipra Motha Party (TMP) delegation, led by Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma, met BJP national president J P Nadda to ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh. Non-participation in development activities has allegedly been stoking unrest in Bangladesh's hill tracts, in a situation where indigenous people are struggling for their basic ...

High up in the hills in southeast Bangladesh, a group of young indigenous people strum their guitars and sing traditional songs to entertain those impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thus the practitioners, proponents and custodians of traditional indigenous art, literature, etc. in Bangladesh have neither the state nor the market in their favour, barring a few notable exceptions.

Vidya Bhushan Rawat In Conversation with Chakma MK from CHT, Bangladesh. Chakma MK is a Human Rights activist working with indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh since ...

Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) alone is conserving more than 600 local rice varieties and engaging with farmers across the country. See All Key Ideas.

There are over 50 indigenous communities living in Bangladesh, primarily spread in the delta region of the country or "the plains", as well as in the south-eastern part of the country known as ...

Unchecked logging and quarrying of rocks from streambeds in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts led to springs drying up and populations of putitor mahseer fish, an endangered species, disappearing.

Last month Meen Chik Mro, 52, travelled to the capital of Bangladesh for the first time in his life. He made the long journey to Dhaka to protest against the construction of a resort on land ...