Muslim fans see reflection of their lives in ‘Ms Marvel’

July 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Jumana Zakir knows who she is going to be for Halloween this year. Hint: Her new favorite superhero is a lot like her – female, teen, Muslim, American and “totally awesome.” “Kamala Khan is me,” said the exuberant 13-year-old from Anaheim, California. “She is just like me.” Khan is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s […]Continue Reading

Why Rohingya refugees flee to Bangladesh from India

July 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Last month, Hasina Begum, a Rohingya woman who was deported from India to Myanmar earlier in March, reunited with her family in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh at a refugee camp housing nearly 10 lakh Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar. Begum, 37, was among 170 Rohingya refugees who were detained last year from a refugee […]Continue Reading

Three Rohingyas held with firearm

July 13, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT The Armed Police Battalion, or APBn, have arrested three Rohingya terrorists in possession of a one-shooter gun (LG), two rounds of fresh bullets and two machetes in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. They were arrested from Teknaf Nayapara Registered Camp around 5:00pm on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The arrested were identified as Md Hossain, […]Continue Reading

ROHINGYA GENOCIDE CASE: ICJ to give verdict on Myanmar objections July 22

July 12, 2022

NEWS DESK The International Court of Justice on Monday set July 22 to deliver its judgment on the Myanmar preliminary objections to the case filed over the latter’s genocide against the Rohingyas in Rakhine state. The Gambia versus Myanmar case is commonly referred to as the Rohingya genocide case after it was brought forward by […]Continue Reading

One killed in JSS-UPDF gunfight

July 12, 2022

BAGHAICHHARI CORRESPONDENT A man was shot dead in a fierce gunfight between UPDF (Prasit) and JSS in the Oltachari area adjacent to Khagrachhari’s Dighinala Narailchari on Tuesday morning, July 12, 2022. The man was identified as Jiban Tripura, 26, a post collector of the UPDF (United People’s Democratic Front). The UPDF condemned the killing and […]Continue Reading

Man arrested with firearm in Cox’s Bazar

July 12, 2022

EIDGAON CORRESPONDENT, COX’S BAZAR Police have arrested a man in possession of an illegal firearm and three live bullets in Eidgaon upazila of Cox’s Bazar. The man – identified as Sahab Uddin (32) Prakash Gailaya, son of late Abdul Hamid, hailing from Ward No 6 of East Yusufkhil of the upazila’s Islamabad Union – was […]Continue Reading

NASA to showcase Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images

July 12, 2022

NEWS DESK Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-colour images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, Reuters reports. The highly anticipated Jul 12 unveiling of pictures and spectroscopic data […]Continue Reading

UN rights council adopts resolution for Rohingya repatriation

July 11, 2022

NEWS DESK The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling upon Myanmar to repatriate the persecuted Rohingyas taking shelter in Bangladesh without delay despite initial opposition from some Western countries. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on behalf of its all member states placed the resolution on the ‘State of Human Rights of […]Continue Reading

Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown

July 11, 2022

NEWS DESK Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown, Reuters reports. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers […]Continue Reading

Army Chief exchanges Eid greetings with army personnel at remote camps in Khagrachhari

July 11, 2022

STAFF REPORTER/DISTRICT CORRESPONDENT, KHAGRACHHARI Bangladesh Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed has visited various remote camps in Khagrachhari on the occasion of the holy Eid al-Adha, and exchanged Eid greetings and pleasantries with the army personnel. As the army chief reached Baghaihat zone at 12 noon on Sunday, July 10, he was received by Major […]Continue Reading