India govt to HC: Security agencies’ input indicate Rohingya migrants’ links with Pak-based terror outfits

September 22, 2022

NEWS DESK India’s Central government Wednesday (Sept 21, 2022) told the Delhi High Court that it has contemporaneous data from security agencies’ input indicating the linkage of some of the unauthorised Rohingya migrants with Pakistan-based terror organisations, which is a “serious security concern,” India’s state news agency PTI reports. The Continue Reading

PM urges UN, global partners to take tangible actions for Rohingya repatriation

September 22, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her grave concerns over the holdup in Rohingya repatriation as the international attention is gradually shifting from the issue to newer global and internal conflicts in Myanmar, calling upon the UN and global community to take effective measures for their sustainable repatriation to their motherland. “The UN […]Continue Reading

Rohingya youth killed in Cox’s Bazar camp

September 22, 2022

NEWS DESK A Rohingya youth was killed in Kutupalong Rohingya camp under Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar on early Thursday (Sept 22, 2022) The deceased is Mohammad Ersad ,22, of the Extension Camp-4 of Kutupalong Rohingya camp. With this, two Rohingya people were killed in Rohingya camps within 24 hours. Masud Anwar, additional police super […]Continue Reading

Transgender Rohingya gets life term for smuggling Yaba pills

September 22, 2022

NEWS DESK The Cox’s Bazar Additional District and Sessions Judge Court on Thursday (Sept 22, 2022)  sentenced a transgender Rohingya to life term imprisonment in a case filed over smuggling of 10,000 Yaba pills into Cox’s Bazar. Judge Abdullah Al Mamun of the court pronounced the verdict in presence of the convict, Shamsul Alam alias […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh Army ready to respond to Myanmar if needed: Army chief

September 21, 2022

NEWS DESK Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday held a high-level meeting with the security and law enforcement agencies at his secretariat office to examine the situation on the Myanmar border. Following the closed-door meeting, the minister said that Bangladesh’s army and other forces were ready to defend the country as they were entrusted. ‘We […]Continue Reading

Rohingya volunteer killed in Cox’s Bazar camp

September 21, 2022

NEWS DESK A Rohingya volunteer was hacked to death at a camp under Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Wednesday. The deceased is Mohammad Jafor, 35, son of late Bodiur Rahman, a resident of Block H/51 at Camp 18. He was a volunteer at the camp. Armed Police Battalion assistant superintendent […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shelling along Bangladesh border continues; BGB patrols reinforced

September 21, 2022

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Wednesday morning, it was exactly 8:49. Myanmar’s security forces fired two mortar shells, one from Myanmar’s Tumbru Right Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 34 and the other from Myanmar’s Kokkotoingya Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 37. The people of Tumbru were scared when the first mortar shell went off on Continue Reading

Myanmar firings along Bangladesh border widen

September 20, 2022

NEWS DESK Firings along Bangladesh-Myanmar border became wider by Tuesday — stretching for about seven kilometres from Naikhyangchhari in Bandarban to Ukhyia in Cox’s Bazar, causing fresh tensions among civilians. As firings continued along border, Bangladesh on the day briefed diplomats from different countries outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the Continue Reading

No-man’s land Rohingyas turn to UN for protection from ‘Myanmar junta attack’

September 20, 2022

NAIKHYANCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Rohingya refugees living in the no-man’s land, a strip of land along Bangladesh-Myanmar border and near Tugmbru of Bandarban’s Naikhyanchhari upazila, have called on the United Nations to ensure their security amid a slew of violent incidents near the border. They wrote to the United Nations upon reaching a consensus about this at Continue Reading

Bangladesh plans to evacuate 300 families amid tensions along Myanmar border

September 19, 2022

NEWS DESK The local administration is planning to evacuate members of 300 Bangladeshi families in Ghumdhum union along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban following firings and mortar shelling near the Tombru border for the last one month. Naikhongchhari Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Salma Ferdous said there are about 70 Bangladeshi Continue Reading