PM Hasina sincere for welfare of hill tracts people: CHT minister

November 4, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is providing all kinds of assistance to improve the socio-economic condition of the people in the region. “She is very sincere for the welfare of the people living in the hill tracts,” he said while speaking as chief […]Continue Reading

Tigers suffer heartbreaking defeat in rain-curtailed match

November 2, 2022

NEWS DESK It was another case of ‘so close yet so far’ as Bangladesh suffered a heartbreaking five-run defeat to India as per DLS method in their fourth game of the T20 World Cup today (Nov 2, 2022)at the Adelaide Oval in Australia. Liton Das put Bangladesh on top, raising the hope of an ‘upset’, […]Continue Reading

Around 20 Rohingya missing after boat capsize in Myanmar

November 2, 2022

NEWS DESK A boat carrying at least 80 Rohingya sank when it ran aground near Pyapon township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady region. Around 20 are still missing and feared dead after Monday’s accident, local residents were quoted to have told it, Radio Free Asia reports. “Only 60 people could be rescued, the remaining 20 just […]Continue Reading

Operation Root Out: 15 held in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

November 1, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, COX’S BAZAR Members of APBn-8 arrested 15 people in possession of 3,000 yaba tablets during a special combing operation at Rohingya camp no. 10 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila on Monday night (Oct 31, 2022).  Of them, six were handed over to Ukhia Police Station in connection with a drug case, and nine others were […]Continue Reading

Mohib Ullah murder case: Accused threatens to kill witness in court

November 1, 2022

NEWS DESK One of the accused in the murder case of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah threatened to kill a witness during testimony in a Cox’s Bazar court on Tuesday (Nov 1, 2022). Accused Khairul Amin threatened to kill Nure Alam, a witness, who was giving his testimony in Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court of […]Continue Reading

Thai police arrest woman with links to Rohingya trafficking to Malaysia

November 1, 2022

NEWS AGENCY Thai police arrested a woman wanted in connection with the alleged trafficking of Rohingya to Malaysia seven years ago, Malaysia’s Bernama reports. Central Investigation Bureau said the woman, believed to be an agent supplying Rohingya to work in Malaysia, was arrested in Kanchanaburi on Monday, after seven years on the run. “The police […]Continue Reading

Myanmar arrests 46 Rohingya trying to leave Rakhine State

November 1, 2022

NEWS DESK 28 Rohingya men, 18 Rohingya women and the two guides accompanying them were arrested near Daung Chaung Village Tract on the Gwa-Nga Thaing Chaung highway, according to a source close to Myanmar junta police, Mizzima reports. “The Rohingya were apprehended by the Junta army while sleeping somewhere in the vicinity of Daung Chaung […]Continue Reading

‘Rohingya’ featuring persecution on Myanmar ethnic group hits cinema halls

October 31, 2022

NEWS DESK ‘Rohingya’, a Bangla film on brutal persecution on ethnic Rohingya population of Myanmar who took refuge in Bangladesh, recently hit the country’s major cinema halls. Syed Wahiduzzaman Diamond, a national film award winning director, directed the film which was entirely shot in Teknaf Rohingya camp and surrounding areas in southeastern Continue Reading

19 Rohingyas arrested from Cox’s Bazar camps

October 31, 2022

NEWS DESK As many as 19 more Rohingyas were arrested in a special operation in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar on Monday (Oct 31, 2022). Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested them from various camps in Ukhiya in a raid from Sunday midnight to Monday morning. APBn-8 Assistant Superintendent of Police (Ops […]Continue Reading

Dhaka seeks proactive role from Thailand, Asean to repatriate Rohingya

October 30, 2022

NEWS DESK Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday sought a pro-active role from Thailand in particular, and from the Asean in general, for ensuring an expeditious and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya people to their homeland in Myanmar. Momen also requested participation of the Thai foreign minister and deputy prime minister at the Indian […]Continue Reading