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

Police file chargesheet against 29 over murder of Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah

June 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Cox’s Bazar district police have lodged a charesheet in the murder case of Rohingya leader Mohammad Mohib Ullah  after an eight-and-a-half month investigation. Cox’s Bazar Additional Superintendent of Police Rafiqul Islam said the chargesheet was lodged with the district’s senior judicial magistrate’s court on Monday afternoon. A total of Continue Reading

Rohingya leader killed in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp

June 10, 2022

UKHIYA AND TEKNAF CORRESPONDENTS A Rohingya leader has been killed at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila. Dead Md Azim Uddin (35) was the head majhi (leader) of Block C at Rohingya Camp No 18. He is son of Kamal Uddin, a resident of Block-L/18 of Camp-17. The incident took place at […]Continue Reading

RAB arrests five with 1 lakh pieces of yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar

June 3, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested five people in possession of 100,000 pieces of yaba tablets during a raid in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila. Tipped off, a team of the RAB-15 arrested them and recovered the drugs while conducting the raid on the east side of Tulatli station in Huaikyong Union […]Continue Reading