Indian police arrest 26 Rohingyas en route to Bangladesh

May 30, 2022

NEWS DESK Indian police detained 26 Myanmar nationals in Assam’s Silchar after they entered the city in a car on Sunday, May 29, 2022, NDTV reports. According to the police, the Myanmar nationals reached Guwahati in a train from Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night. Then they hired two Innova SUVs to Silchar. They do […]Continue Reading

What Foreign Minister Momen Said On Ties With India, China

May 29, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh has a “historical rock-solid relationship with India”, said its Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday, May 28, 2022, adding that Dhaka wants to “develop this with all the Indian states”. The Bangladesh Minister called China a “development partner”, NDTV reports. “We have a historical rock-solid Continue Reading

Arakan Army Clashes Heavily with Myanmar Junta Troops

May 28, 2022

Fighting broke out between Myanmar’s junta and the Arakan Army (AA) in Paletwa Township, Chin State, on Thursday, The Irrawaddy reports. The two sides clashed at the foot of Mt Suu Poke in northwest Paletwa with Light Infantry Battalion 289 providing artillery support, according to residents. “There is a junta outpost and AA troops are […]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

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

India jails Tiktok Ridoy, six other Bangladeshis for life in rape case

May 21, 2022

NEWS DESK A special court in India has sentenced seven Bangladeshi men, including notorious human-trafficking suspect Rifadul Islam aka Ridoy Babo, to life-term rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a fellow countrywoman. On Friday, the court also sentenced another Bangladeshi woman to 20 years in prison and another Bangladeshi man to five years in the same […]Continue Reading

Myanmar military leader begins peace talks with ethnic militia groups

May 21, 2022

NEWS DESK The head of Myanmar’s military government on Friday evening (May 20) held the first in a monthlong series of person-to-person peace talks he has initiated with the country’s historically restive ethnic minority groups, state media reported, AP reports. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing held discussions with Yawd Serk, chairman of the Restoration Council […]Continue Reading

BSF Personnel Injured In Cattle-Smugglers’ Attack Along India-Bangladesh Border

May 18, 2022

News Desk A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel sustained severe injuries in an attack by a bunch of livestock smugglers along the India-Bangladesh Border in Assam’s South Salmara-Mankachar region on Tuesday, Northeast Today reports. The injured jawan have been identified as – Dinesh Chandra Yadav of 45th Battalion BSF. The event occurred along the Kalo […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s Civilian Government Holds Talks With Arakan Army

May 17, 2022

News Desk: In an attempt to engage with armed groups which can help topple Myanmar’s military regime, the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) said it held an online meeting with Rakhine State’s Arakan Army (AA), The Irrawaddy reports. The shadow government’s Alliance Relations Committee, its foreign minister Daw Zin Mar Aung and prominent ’88 Generation […]Continue Reading

Pakistan says it foiled suspected suicide attack against Chinese nationals

May 16, 2022

Pakistani police arrested a would-be suicide bomber who planned to blow herself up near a convoy of Chinese nationals along the China Pakistan Economic-Corridor (CPEC), a police statement said, Reuters reports. Monday’s arrest came two weeks after a woman suicide bomber blew herself up on a university campus in the southern port city of Karachi, […]Continue Reading