Rohingya refugees provide aid to flood victims in Sylhet

July 3, 2022

NEWS DESK Registered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have come forward to provide 400 flood-affected families with cash and emergency flood relief supplies, to show solidarity with the host population. Moved by social and mainstream media reports of the displacement of millions of people because of the recent flooding in Sylhet, young Rohingya refugees, both men […]Continue Reading

Drug smuggling: Most wanted fugitive held in Cox’s Bazar, spills the beans

July 3, 2022

UKHIYA CORRESPONDENT Cox’s Bazar police have arrested a fugitive accused in multiple cases confessing to smuggling 30-40 lakh yaba tablets per month from Myanmar into Rohingya camps. Fugitive Shafiullah, 38, son of Abdus Salam of E/2 Block of Lambasia Rohingya Shibir-1, was arrested in possession of 20,000 pieces of yaba tablets during a raid in […]Continue Reading

Dengue cases on rise in Rohingya camps

June 30, 2022

NEWS DESK The number of Dengue patients is increasing in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar with nearly 2,000 being affected in six months. Meanwhile, one girl child aged four, residing at the Kutupalong camp, died on 23 June, hospital sources said. Cox’s Bazar Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Office Coordinator Dr Toha Bhuiyan said […]Continue Reading

Two Rohingya terrorists held with weapons in Teknaf

June 24, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT The Armed Police Battalion or APBn have arrested two Rohingya terrorists with weapons in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. They were arrested from Camp No 26 in the upazila’s Shalbagan at 1:30am on Friday, June 24, 2022, according to sources. The arrested have been identified as Jobair (25), son of Noor Mohammad of Block-A/3 […]Continue Reading

ADB approves $41.4m grant to help Rohingyas in Bangladesh

June 22, 2022

NEWS DESK The Asian Development Bank has sanctioned a grant of $41.4 million for infrastructure development and meeting the basic needs of the Rohingyas, who took shelter in Cox’s Bazar after being persecuted in Myanmar. A total of 200 water and sanitation facilities along with three solid waste management facilities will be built with the […]Continue Reading

Rohingyas hold ‘go back home’ campaign, place 7-point demand

June 19, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT Thousands of Rohingyas have held a ‘go back home’ campaign staging rallies at different camps of Cox’s Bazar. As part of the campaign, they staged a mass rally at Teknaf’s Shalbagan on Sunday, June 19, 2022. In Ukhiya, they conducted their campaign from 11 venues of 15 camps from 8am to 11:30am. Around […]Continue Reading

Automatic rifle among arms, ammo seized in Rohingya camps

June 18, 2022

NEWS DESK The Armed Police Battalion seized one United States-made assault rifle, a pistol and a cache of ammunition at Moynarghona Rohingya camp at Ukhia in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night, June 16, 2022, and arrested two Rohingya men early Friday, June 17, 2022, in connection with the arms. The arrested are Mohammad Hossain, 30, […]Continue Reading

‘ARSA member’ shot dead at Rohingya camp

June 16, 2022

NEWS DESK Criminals shot dead a member of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army in Ukhiya’s Kutupalong camp on Wednesday night, said police. Md Selim, 30, a resident of B-3/2 block of the camp, was killed over establishing supremacy between two Rohingya gangs, according to police. Naimul Hoque, commander of Armed Police Battalion-14(APBn-14) in Cox’s Bazar, […]Continue Reading

Civil society for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in camps

June 15, 2022

NEWS DESK Civil society members at a webinar have called for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in Cox’s Bazar camps. A collective plan should also be devised in order to cope with the reduced foreign aid for the refugees, they told the webinar titled “Humanitarian Response to Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)” organised […]Continue Reading

‘ARSA’ killed Mohib Ullah to stop Rohingya return: Chargesheet

June 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Police investigations have revealed that Mohammad Mohib Ullah was killed by the ARSA group as he was working to get the Rohingyas – who have taken shelter in Bangladesh – back to their home country, Myanmar. ARSA (Arakan Republican Salvation Army) is an armed organization based in Myanmar’s Rakhine. Mohib Ullah, taking refuge […]Continue Reading