Daughter of Bangladeshi-Rohingya couple caught trying to register as voter in Cox’s Bazar

August 8, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT A young woman has been caught trying to register as a voter showing fake and forged documents in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. She was identified as Kohinoor Akter, daughter of Bangladeshi man Mohammad Siddiq of Laturikhola area of Hoikong union of Teknaf upazila and Myanmar’s Rohingya woman Senwara Begum sheltering in Bangladesh. To […]Continue Reading

Man dies days after being shot by terrorists in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

August 5, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT A man shot by Rohingya terrorists at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila has succumbed to wounds at a Chattogram city hospital. Identified as Habib Ullah, son of Mohammad Hochan, a Myanmar national living in the West Leda area of Hanila Union, he was shot by Rohingya terrorists in front of […]Continue Reading

Yaba pills, crystal meth worth 26 crore seized in Cox’s Bazar

July 31, 2022

NEWS DESK Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized crystal methamphetamine and yaba pills worth Tk 25.89 crore during a drive in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar. Acting on a tip-off, Commander of Teknaf Battalion (BGB-2) Lt Col Sheikh Khalid Mohammad Iftekhar said, a team of BGB-2 intercepted a boat in which three […]Continue Reading

Two held with crystal meth, yaba in Cox’s Bazar

July 30, 2022

NEWS DESK Border Guard Bangladesh has claimed to have arrested two men from Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf on charges of smuggling yaba pills and crystal meth from Myanmar to Bangladesh. BGB Battalion-2 conducted a drive on the banks of the Naf River near Hnila BOP of the upazila on Friday, July 29, 2022. During the drive, […]Continue Reading

Three shot after gunfights at Ukhiya Rohingya camp

July 21, 2022

UKHIYA CORRESPONDENT Three Rohingyas are said to have been shot as two rival groups of them engaged in a series of gunfights over taking control of a Ukhiya Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday, July 21, 2022. The shot are Md Hossain, 52, head majhi of D-Block, Camp No 4, Md. Pethan, 41, and […]Continue Reading

Rohingya insurgency group Al-Yakin leader held in Cox’s Bazar

July 17, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, COX’S BAZAR The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a top leader of Al-Yakin, an armed insurgency group that fights for establishing the rights of Rohingyas in Myanmar, on Saturday. Abu-Bakkar alias Zameer Hossain alias Hafez Monir, 37, son of Noor Mohammad, was arrested from East B/74 of Ukhia Palangkhali Camp-8 around 8 pm […]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 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