Myanmar starts confirming Rohingyas’ eligibility for return with first list of 180,000

April 4, 2025

NEWS DESK Myanmar authorities have confirmed to Bangladesh that out of a list of 800,000 Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh, they have identified 180,000 Rohingyas eligible for return to Myanmar. The original list was provided by Bangladesh in six batches during 2018-20. The final verification of another 70,000 Rohingyas is pending additional scrutiny of their photographs Continue Reading

CA press wing debunks The New York Times article

April 2, 2025

The New York Times article titled “As Bangladesh Reinvents Itself, Islamist Hard-Liners See an Opening” is a misleading one, said the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing on Wednesday. “The New York Times article paints a troubling and one-sided view of Bangladesh, suggesting that the country is on the brink of being overtaken by religious extremism,” Continue Reading

Myanmar military announces temporary truce as quake death toll passes 3,000

April 2, 2025

Myanmar’s governing military has declared a unilateral, temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war to facilitate rescue efforts after last week’s powerful earthquake, as state television reported the death toll from the disaster had surpassed 3,000, Al Jazeera reports. MRTV said that the truce would last from Wednesday until April 22 and was aimed at […]Continue Reading

Tripura parties react to Bangladesh advisor Yunus’s ‘jibe’ on Seven Sisters

April 2, 2025

Ruling and Opposition parties in Tripura on Tuesday slammed Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government, for his remarks in China on India’s northeastern states and urged the Centre to send a “befitting reply”, The Indian Express reports, During his four-day visit to China in the last week of March, Yunus said […]Continue Reading

Myanmar quake death toll passes 1,600, as junta lets in foreign rescuers

March 28, 2025

Myanmar’s military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years, REUTERS reports. Friday’s 7.7 magnitude quake, among the biggest to jolt the Southeast Asian nation in the last century, crippled airports, bridges Continue Reading

Rohingyas to get $12 monthly food aid as WFP reverses decision

March 27, 2025

NEWS DESK The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has reversed its decision to reduce food aid for Rohingyas residing in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, following concerns over the impact of the cut. In the latest development, the residents of various camps along the coast of Cox’s Bazar will now receive a monthly food […]Continue Reading

50 towers in the mountains closed due to ‘sabotage’: Robi

March 27, 2025

NEWS DESK Mobile network operator Robi has said more than 50 of its towers in Bangladesh’s hilly regions have been shut down over the past three months due to power and fibre cable cuts. In a media statement on Thursday, the company claimed miscreants had an “extortion motive” behind such activities. “The criminal ring has […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh Army rejects India Today’s report on ‘possibility of coup’

March 25, 2025

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Army has strongly refuted a report published by India Today over an “emergency meeting” of army over a possible coup against Chief Adviser Mohammad Yunus calling it “false and fabricated.” It has come to the attention of the Bangladesh Army that India Today has once again published a report based on false […]Continue Reading

Army dismisses Hasnat’s Facebook post as ‘hilarious and immature stories’: Netra News

March 23, 2025

NEWS DESK The Bangladesh Army has denied allegations made by Hasnat Abdullah, chief organiser (south) of the National Citizen Party (NCP), where he claimed senior military officials pressured him and two others to accept a so-called “refined” faction of the Awami League (AL), reports Netra News. In a statement shared with Netra News, the Army […]Continue Reading

Media Reform Commission uses ‘Adivasi’ term despite govt ban

March 23, 2025

STAFF REPORTER The Media Reform Commission, formed under the current government, has used the term Adivasi in its report submitted to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, despite longstanding government directives against such usage. Since 2005, successive administrations have issued multiple circulars instructing state agencies and the media not to refer to the country’s Continue Reading