Indigenous leaders claim the total number of ethnic minority people in Bangladesh is around 3 million. Major ethnic groups include the Chakma, Garo, Santal, Oraon, Tripura and Marma. Christians make ...

How many people genuinely care about the state of Indigenous communities in the “new Bangladesh,” which claims to be free from discrimination? Indigenous students and activists joined the July ...

According to Soumik Banerjee, an independent researcher who has studied tribal food and health in Jharkhand for 19 years, these restaurants are helping revive Indigenous cuisine.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are a group of districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar (Burma) in the east, which are considered as the ...

DHAKA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh’s southern hilly region are living in fear after clashes in which four people were killed and dozens wounded, police and witnesses said ...

The attacks were reportedly a response to a peaceful "March for Identity" held on Sept 18 in CHT, during which 40,000 indigenous people called for constitutional recognition of their rights and ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh’s southern hilly region are living in fear after clashes in which four people were killed and dozens wounded, police and witnesses said on Saturday.

While the tribal population of the CHT declined drastically, the government of Bangladesh encroached upon the ancestral land of the indigenous tribes, particularly the Kuki-Chin people, in the ...

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.