NEWS DESK Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman visited 10 Infantry Division and Cox’s Bazar area on 17 and 18 November. During the visit, he laid the foundation stone of two residential buildings – ‘Senaneer’ and ‘Swapnachura’ – to be built in the Ramu Cantonment. These will help resolve the accommodation problem of Junior Commissioned […]Continue Reading
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NEWS DESK Law enforcers have detained 81 Rohingya individuals while attempting to trespass into Bangladesh through Alikadam-Myanmar border in Bandarban. The detentions took place on Monday morning in various areas of Kurukpata union’s Poa Muhuri border. Among the detained, there are 31 children and 50 adult men and women. Local sources reported that due to […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The prolonged ongoing Rohingya crisis has worsened with a new wave of influx, creating enormous pressure on the local administration and key government agencies for adopting feasible measures. This was stated in a consultation meeting with the presence of foreign secretary Md. Jashim Uddin, who is also the Chair of the National Task […]Continue Reading
The Bangladesh Army has detained six people directly involved in the murder of an army officer during an anti-robbery operation in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. Lieutenant Tanzim Sarwar Nirjon (23) of the Bangladesh Army was killed in the early hours of Tuesday during an operation to prevent a robbery. Following the incident, the […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Sunday paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser to the Interim Government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus at his office in Dhaka. “During the meeting, the Chief Adviser was apprised by the Army Chief of the existing overall security situation across the country . . . and […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Home affairs adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said on Saturday that he did not want to see killings of Bangladesh nationals like that of Felani again along the border with India. ‘I don’t want to see killings like Felani again. Don’t show your back at the border . . . […]Continue Reading
STAFF CORRESPONDENT At least 500 Rohingyas crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh on Saturday, local officials said, in the latest influx of refugees escaping violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The latest arrivals come after more than 200 Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh on Friday through Cox’s Bazar. Over the past two weeks, an estimated 8,000 […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Bangladesh Army has donated money, equivalent to one day’s salary of its all members, to the Chief Adviser’s Relief Fund aiming to help flood victims across Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army, through its verified Facebook page, said the money had been donated to help the victims of the ongoing flash flood that has ravaged Feni, […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Thirteen more Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) personnel have taken shelter in Bangladesh amid the ongoing conflict between junta forces and the rebel Arakan Army. They crossed the Naf River and surrendered to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf on Wednesday. In the morning, they sought refuge in the Nazir Para and […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The members of the Bangladesh Army will return to their respective cantonments when police forces resume their work properly, said Waker-uz-Zaman, chief of army staff in Khulna on Monday. “Police need to be made more organized and then we will be able to return to normalcy,” Waker-uz-Zaman said while talking to journalists after […]Continue Reading