Myanmar violates Bangladesh airspace, fires mortar shells

September 3, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT/BANDARBAN AND BAISHARI CORRESPONDENTS Two mortar shells fired from Myanmar’s warplanes have once again landed inside Bangladesh. On Saturday (Sept 3) at 9:30 am, those shells fell in the Ghumdhum area of Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban. This is the third time such incidents have happened. Bandarban Superintendent of Police (SP) Tariqul Islam Continue Reading

Take large number of Rohingyas: Bangladesh to countries interested in resettlement

August 29, 2022

NEWS DESK Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has requested countries, which had previously expressed interest in resettling Rohingyas in their states, to take in a large number of Rohingyas and alleviate Bangladesh’s problems. “In today’s meeting, we have decided to look into the number of Rohingyas these countries want to take. We have not received any […]Continue Reading

Dhaka summons Myanmar envoy over mortar shell firing from across border

August 29, 2022

NEWS DESK The Foreign Ministry has today (Aug 29, 2022) summoned the Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka and lodged a protest over firing mortar shells in Bangladesh’s territory. Myanmar Ambassador U Aung Kyaw Moe was summoned and lodged a strong protest was lodged with him through a diplomatic letter. “We asked him to see that no […]Continue Reading

Dhaka to lodge protest against Myanmar shelling mortars into Bangladesh

August 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh will lodge its strong protest with Myanmar so that nothing such ever happens inside Bangladesh as the country witnessed mortal shells fired from Myanmar inside Bangladesh territory on Sunday (Aug 28, 2022). “We usually protest amid such incidents. A few days ago we also received similar reports. We will again strongly protest […]Continue Reading

Three mortar shells from Myanmar land in Bangladesh

August 28, 2022

NAIKHONGCHARI CORRESPONDENT Three mortar shells fired from Myanmar have landed unexploded in Bangladesh’s Bandarban district. The shells fell in the southern neighbourhood of Tumbru – bordering Myanmar – Ghumdhum in the hill district’s Naikhongchari. The southern neighbourhood of Tumbru is surrounded by a temporary Rohingya camp living on the Tumbru zero line of Continue Reading

OIC secretary general hospitalised, Bangladesh visit deferred

August 27, 2022

NEWS DESK The scheduled visit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation secretary general Hissein Brahim Taha has been deferred as he is hospitalised. ‘He’s hospitalised. Therefore, the visit can’t take place at this time,’ a senior official at the ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday evening. The OIC secretary general was scheduled to arrive at […]Continue Reading

Rohingya must be part of Myanmar crisis solution: UN chief

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Myanmar’s military-installed government Wednesday (Aug 25, 2022) to include ethnic Rohingya in a solution to the country’s political crisis, AP reports. He commented on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the start of a mass exodus by the Muslim minority to Bangladesh to escape a […]Continue Reading

Myanmar Rohingya, five years on, want to go home with justice

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday (Aug 25, 2022), the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes, Reuters reports. More than a million Rohingya now live in the world’s largest refugee settlement in Continue Reading

US to take Rohingyas from Bangladesh: Blinken

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has said the United States are working to significantly increase resettlement of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. “As an essential component of an international, comprehensive humanitarian response, we are working to significantly increase resettlement of Rohingya refugees from the region, including from Bangladesh, Continue Reading

Will continue to pursue long-term solution to Rohingya crisis: Foreign Missions

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Foreign Missions stationed in Dhaka have said they will continue to pursue a long-term solution to the Rohingya crisis and its causes. “Five years on, the international community stands resolute in solidarity in its support for Rohingya and Bangladesh,” reads a joint statement by the Embassies and High Commissions in Dhaka on Thursday […]Continue Reading