Rohingya Crisis: US committed to long-term solutions

April 1, 2023

NEWS DESK US President Joe Biden has said his country made a commitment to finding long-term solutions to the Rohingya refugee crisis and holding perpetrators of the atrocities accountable. “You set an example for the world of empathy and generosity in practice,” the US president wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The US embassy in […]Continue Reading

HRW urges Bangladesh to halt Rohingya repatriation plan

April 1, 2023

NEWS  DESK Human Rights Watch on Friday (March 31) urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority. Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar that is now […]Continue Reading

Now Indian citizen held at Bandarban border

April 1, 2023

NEWS DESK Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have arrested an Indian citizen from the Naikhongchhari border area of Bandarban district. The arrestee has been identified as Sudhir, 40, son of Bimol of India’s Uttara Pradesh. BGB members arrested him when he was roaming in the border area on Thursday night ( March 30). Cox’s […]Continue Reading

60-yr-old Rohingya man shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

April 1, 2023

NEWS DESK A 60-old Rohingya man was shot dead during a clash between two groups at a camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today (April 1). The deceased was identified as Syed Alam, an inhabitant of Kutupalong camp No 8 who used to work as a night guard of the camp. Sheikh Mohammad […]Continue Reading

Dhaka seeks greater Dutch support for Rohingya repatriation

April 1, 2023

NEWS DESK Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah has sought support from the Netherlands towards the sustainable return of the Rohingyas and a political solution to the issue in Myanmar. He made the request while calling on Dutch Prime Minister’s Foreign and Security Adviser Geoffrey Van Leeuwen on Friday. He also […]Continue Reading

Vienna Convention and Diplomatic Practice

March 31, 2023

WALIUR RAHMAN “An Ambassador should be a trained theologian, should be well-versed in Aristotle and Plato, and should be able at a moment’s notice to solve the most abstruse problems in correct dialectical form: he should also be expert in mathematics, architecture, music, physics and civil and canon law.”  —Ottaviano Maggi (1596)  The 1961 Vienna […]Continue Reading

The pros and cons of Currency Crises and the Bangladesh Narratives

March 31, 2023

Dr. JAMALUDDIN AHMED Currency crises defined as speculative attack on foreign currency value of currency. A speculative attack often found leading to a sharp exchange rate depreciation despite a strong policy response to defend currency value.  The exchange rate is often considered to be the most critical price for any economy, for its effects all […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh Perspective of Human Rights: A Retrospective Analysis with an Eye to the Future 38

March 31, 2023

Dr AK ABDUL MOMEN Bangladesh is probably unparallel in the world in a sense that very birth of Bangladesh was aimed for upholding democracy, human rights and justice. In 1970, when Bangladesh Awami League (AL) won majority votes to form the new government (out of 299 seat election AL got 167 plus 32 =199, PPP […]Continue Reading

An innocent Bawm villager killed by Bawm party terrorists in Mizoram

March 31, 2023

NEWS DESK It has been alleged that an innocent villager named Sanglianjual Bawm alias Passen Bawm (29) from Bandarban of Bangladesh was murdered by terrorists of Kuki-Chin National Front known as Bawm Party in Longtlai District of Mizoram State, India, HIll Voice reports. According to the sources, on March 19, 2023, the terrorists of the […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi’s party as election deadline passes

March 28, 2023

Myanmar’s military government has dissolved the ousted ruling party of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 39 other parties, state media announced on Tuesday, over their failure to register for an election set to prolong the army’s grip on power, Reuters reports. The National League for Democracy (NLD) is among dozens of parliamentary parties […]Continue Reading