Listless Tigers taste 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka

May 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh paid the price of their abysmal batting show by tasting a 10-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka in the second and final Test at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium today, Friday, May 27. The victory eventually led Sri Lanka to win the two-match series 1-0 after the first Test in Chattogram was drawn. Bangladesh […]Continue Reading

Assam’s CM thanks Bangladesh PM for “zero tolerance” to insurgency

May 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Indian northeastern state Assam’s Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her government’s “zero tolerance policy” to terrorism and insurgency, saying peace and stability are the key factors in development process of his state. He expressed his thanks while visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Continue Reading

Dhaka sends ‘note verbale’ to Delhi over Rohingyas’ entry from India

May 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh has asked India to take measures to stop entry of Rohingyas as Dhaka reported the arrival of a number of Myanmar nationals in the past weeks. ‘We’ve sent a note verbale,’ Mashfee Binte Shams, Secretary (East) at the ministry of foreign affairs, said on Sunday, May 22, 2022. On Tuesday, foreign minister […]Continue Reading

UNHCR appeals neighboring countries to care for Rohingyas, like Bangladesh

May 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Visiting UN High Commissioner for the Refugees Filippo Grandi has appealed the neighboring countries to retain Rohingyas they have already hosted rather than creating any additional burden to Bangladesh that is sheltering more than 1.1 million displaced people. “They (neighbouring) should take care of these people like Bangladesh does,” he told a Continue Reading

Momen calls Int’l community’s proactive engagement for Rohingya repatriation

May 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Dhaka expects further proactive engagements from the international community and UNHCR for ensuring sustainable repatriation of forcefully displaced Rohingyas to their land of origin in Rakhine state of Myanmar. “Bangladesh expects International Community, in particular UNHCR, to enhance their activities in Continue Reading

APBn to be deployed at vacant army camps

May 25, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is set to lay the foundation stone of the office of the DIG, APBn (Armed Police Battalion) in CHT (Chattogram Hill Tracts) today, Thursday, May 26, 2022. He will lay the foundation stone of the office of the DIG, APBn in Rangamati’s Sukhi Neelganj Police Lines at 10:45am, […]Continue Reading

Dozens dead or missing as Rohingya boat sinks off Myanmar

May 24, 2022

Dozens of ethnic Rohingya refugees were dead or missing after a boat with about 90 people aboard, including children, capsized and sank in bad weather off the coast of Myanmar over the weekend, according to media reports, Reuters reports. More than 20 survivors were detained by authorities in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region, the US-funded Radio Free […]Continue Reading

Prolonged uncertainty of repatriation entices Rohingyas to criminal activities: PM

May 24, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the prolonged uncertainty of repatriation is enticing Rohingyas to get involved in criminal activities. “They (Rohingyas) are becoming frustrated due to protracted uncertainty over their repatriation which has a potential risk as it entices many of them to get involved in criminal activities,” she said on Tuesday, Continue Reading

Two Rohingyas who escaped from India held at Teknaf’s Alikhali camp

May 24, 2022

HNEELA CORRESPONDENT Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBN) have arrested two Rohingyas – who illegally entered Bangladesh from India – at the Alikhali Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf. The arrested Rohingyas have been identified as Jamal, 65, son of one Saidul Islam, and his wife Mst Nur Jahan (60). They were arrested during […]Continue Reading

Padma Bridge to be opened on June 25

May 24, 2022

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the Padma Bridge would be opened on June 25 to directly connect the south-western region with the capital Dhaka. Talking to newsmen in front of Ganabhaban in Dhaka, emerging from a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said the premier would open the bridge for […]Continue Reading