With no chance to celebrate Ramadan, Gazans gather at soup kitchens

March 20, 2024

In the Jabalia refugee camp, hungry Gazans hold out pots to receive soup during the holy month of Ramadan, according to Reuters. As other Muslims around the world consume traditional Ramadan meals and desserts to break their fast after sunset, residents of the besieged strip are lucky to find a few scraps of food, or […]Continue Reading

Pirates make maiden contact with MV Abdullah’s owner

March 20, 2024

NEWS DESK The pirates who had hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah with 23 crew contacted the owners of the vessel for the first time after nine days on Wednesday. Mizanul Islam, a media adviser of KSRM Group, said, “The pirates contacted us this afternoon, but they did not demand anything.” “We have talked about the […]Continue Reading

Forest officials rescue monkey after attacks in Rangamati

March 20, 2024

STAFF REPORTER, RANGAMATI Forest Department officials have rescued a monkey that had been causing panic in Rangamati after attacking residents and damaging property. The monkey was safely captured on Wednesday afternoon in the Alam Dock Yard area of the city. Over the past few days, the monkey had reportedly entered homes in the Garjontoli and […]Continue Reading

Fuel, biscuits seized in anti-smuggling drive near Myanmar border

March 20, 2024

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized a cache of fuel and dry food items during a patrol near the Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari, Bandarban district. The operation, conducted on Wednesday (March 20th) at 10:50 AM, was led by Havildar Lutfor Rahman of the 11 BGB Battalion. The patrol team recovered 70 liters of octane […]Continue Reading

Swedish Princess Victoria visits Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar

March 20, 2024

NEWS DESK Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, also UNDP goodwill ambassador, arrived at Cox’s Bazar Ukhiya Rohingya camp on Wednesday. She arrived at Ukhiya Rohingya camp by an army helicopter from Noakhali’s Bhasan Char at about 1:30pm. Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner Mohammad Shahin Imran, police superintendent Mahfuzur Rahman and officials of the Swedish embassy in Dhaka Continue Reading

In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

March 19, 2024

Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down. Fadi’s spindly legs can no longer support him enough to walk. Photographs of Fadi from before the war show a smiling, healthy-looking […]Continue Reading

Myanmar Army veterans to be conscripted back into service

March 19, 2024

Rules which oblige ex-servicemen who have left the armed forces within the last five years to return to the army if they are summoned, were implemented on 10 March 2024, Mizzima reports. The Reserve Force Rules were brought in by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but never implemented. The junta announced that they […]Continue Reading

Over 20 Rohingya villagers killed as Myamar junta warplane attacks village in Rakhine

March 19, 2024

Twenty-three Rohingya residents were killed and 33 injured in an unprovoked bombing raid by the military regime on Monday in Minbya Township in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, according to residents, The Irrawaddy reports. A junta warplane dropped two bombs early Monday morning on Thardar Village, residents said. A faith leader and his wife, and a […]Continue Reading

Chinese envoy meets Hamas leader Haniyeh first time since Oct 7

March 19, 2024

In a first such meeting since the Oct 7 cross-border Hamas raid and consequent Israeli war on Gaza, a Chinese Foreign Ministry envoy called on Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar, Beijing said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a brief statement, the Foreign Ministry said Ambassador Wang Kejian met the head of Hamas’ political […]Continue Reading

Brojen Tripura held with gun, ammo in Matiranga

March 18, 2024

KHAGRACHHARI CORRESPONDENT A 45-year-old man was arrested with a homemade firearm and ammunition during a police raid in Matiranga upazila of Khagrachhari on Sunday afternoon. The arrestee, Brojen Tripura, is a resident of Yaminichhara area, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted the raid in Ayodhya Para of Belchari Union around […]Continue Reading