Myanmar’s recent activities ‘no less than a security threat to Bangladesh’: Home minister

September 10, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s recent activities in the border areas are no less than a security threat to Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. He sought the cooperation of the international community to solve this crisis. The Home Minister was speaking as the chief guest at a round table discussion at Amari Dhaka Hotel, […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shelling sound sends panic among Rohingyas at zero line

September 10, 2022

NEWS DESK Rohingyas living at the zero line along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border adjoining Bandarban have been frightened by the sound of bullets, artillery and mortars heard from Myanmar. The territory between Konarpara of Tombru Bazar and Kha Mong Seik hill is called the zero line, or no mans’ land. More than 4,200 people of 621 […]Continue Reading

No lasting solution to Rohingya issue without repatriation

September 10, 2022

NEWS DESK Repatriation of the Rohingya refugees has become essential to finding a permanent resolution of the issue, speakers said at a webinar on Friday (Sept 10, 2022). The virtual seminar, titled ‘Rohingya Problem: Possibility of Repatriation”, was organized by the permanent mission of Bangladesh in Geneva in association with Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), marking […]Continue Reading

Myanmar conflict under control, junta chief says

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK The crisis in Myanmar is under control and the ruling military will do all in its power to hold elections next year as planned, providing the vote can be free from foreign interference, its leader said, Reuters reports. Speaking to Russian news agency RIA in a rare interview published on Wednesday, Senior General […]Continue Reading

Queen passes away at 96

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” it said in a statement. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return Continue Reading

Muslims are erased and stereotyped in TV series, a study shows

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK Muslims make up 25% of the global population and Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world — but Muslims only comprise 1% of characters shown on popular televisions series in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, NPR reports. Those are just two of the findings in a new report issued […]Continue Reading

We control over half of Myanmar’s territory: NUG

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) has said that its People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and allied ethnic revolutionary organizations (ERO)) have effective control of more than half the country after a year of waging a people’s defensive war against the military regime, The Irrawaddy reports. In a speech on Wednesday marking the one-year […]Continue Reading

India’s SC asks govt to mull reunion of teenaged Rohingya with parents in Bangladesh

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK The Supreme Court of India has pulled up the Central government over the deportation of a 14-year-old girl from India to Myanmar, while her parents, currently seeking asylum in Bangladesh, want her back with them, India Legal reports. The Bench of Justice Abdul Nazeer and Justice V. Ramasubramanian asked the Centre how it […]Continue Reading

Fighting between Myanmar security forces, Arakan army re-erupts; border road construction in Bandarban halted

September 6, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Myanmar security forces have once again been involved in a fierce clash with the Arakan Army (AA), a rebel group in Myanmar. The sound of heavy shelling that resumed on Tuesday (Sept 6) following a two-day lull, sent panic among Bangladeshi people living along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban. Bangladeshis on the […]Continue Reading

The migration of small ethnic groups to Bangladesh and their original habitats

September 5, 2022

SAYED IBN RAHMAT The preliminary report of Population and Housing Census 2022 has found 50 non-Bengali/small ethnic communities living in Bangladesh. Apart from this, there are some other communities. But their names were not mentioned. The total non-Bengali/ethnic population size in Bangladesh is 1,650,159, which is 0.10% of the country’s total population. Again, the Continue Reading