Army chief visits CHT border road project

August 21, 2022

NEWS DESK Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed today (August 21, 2022) visited the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) border road project being implemented under the supervision of the Bangladesh Army in three hilly districts – Rangamati, Khagrachari, and Bandarban. He also visited different army camps in Chattogram and various developmental projects of […]Continue Reading

‘Sending us back to Myanmar will be a death sentence’: Delhi Rohingya refugees

August 20, 2022

“Where we are living now is no better than a detention camp,” said 33-year-old Noor Kasim, a Rohingya refugee, as he stared at what was left of his rain-wrecked shanty in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar, India’s The Quaint reports. His family of five spent the last few days fixing the tin roof of his makeshift house […]Continue Reading

You’re living in fool’s world if you expect change overnight: Shakib

August 20, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, who appointed as the captain of T20 format after the Test cricket, believes that a change of their playing style in the shortest format of the cricket is not possible overnight. He said those who thinks like that, are living in a fool’s world. “I don’t have […]Continue Reading

Domingo’s philosophy doesn’t suit our brand of cricket: Mahmud

August 20, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud Sujon doesn’t think that the philosophy of head coach Russell Domingo goes augur well with the brand of cricket that the Tigers would like to play, particularly in T20 format. According to Mahmud, Sridharan Sriram was therefore appointed as technical consultant as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is […]Continue Reading

India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

August 17, 2022

NEWS DESK Hours after a federal minister said Rohingya will be given apartments in the capital, India’s home ministry has denied giving such instructions, saying the refugees would be held at a detention centre and eventually deported, Al Jazeera reports. Earlier on Wednesday (August 17, 2022), Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, […]Continue Reading

Rohingyas must go home in Myanmar, PM Hasina tells UN rights chief

August 17, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (August 17, 2022) reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back home the country’s over one million Rohingya nationals from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh. “The Rohingyas are the nationals of Myanmar and they have to be taken back,” the prime minister told the UN High Commissioner […]Continue Reading

One army man killed, three others injured in Bandarban road crash

August 16, 2022

THANCHI CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN An army man has died and three others have sustained serious injuries as an army jeep fell into a deep ditch on the Alikadam-Thanchi road in Bandarban on Tuesday (August 16, 2022). The deceased was identified as Shimul, 28, a soldier of 16 ECBs of the army and the injured were identified […]Continue Reading

Rohingyas raise concerns over their security as UN rights chief visits Cox’s Bazar camps

August 16, 2022

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on Tuesday (Aug 16, 2022) implored the United Nations rights chief for protection after recent murders that have again left members of the stateless minority fearful for their safety, AFP reports. Michelle Bachelet spent the day meeting with residents of the sprawling and squalid relief settlements housing nearly a million ethnic […]Continue Reading

Bachelet assures UN’s continued efforts to ensure safe return of Rohingyas to Myanmar

August 16, 2022

NEWS DESK Acknowledging Bangladesh’s great difficulty in dealing with the Rohingya crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday (August 14, 2022) assured the UN’s continued efforts to realize a safe and voluntary return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar. She made the assurance when Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said that […]Continue Reading

UN rights chief talked about Chittagong Hill Tracts: Home minister

August 14, 2022

STAFF REPORTER Visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has talked about the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) during her meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. “She talked about the three districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts. She cited that it is often heard that murders take place there,” he told reporters after the […]Continue Reading