Rohingya boat capsize: Case filed, 6 arrested

October 5, 2022

NEWS DESK Police have filed a case over the boat capsize in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar while it was illegally crossing the sea to Malaysia. Six people have been arrested in the case, our Cox’s Bazar staff correspondent reports quoting Teknaf Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Hafizur Rahman. Sub-Inspector (SI) of Baharchhara Police […]Continue Reading

29 Malaysia-bound Rohingyas, four agents held in Cox’s Bazar

October 4, 2022

TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT Bangladesh Coast Guard have arrested 29 Rohingyas, including three women, and four daalals ( and trawler sailors and agents of human traffickers) from Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar while illegally going to Malaysia. They were arrested from Baharchhara Holbania Ghat area of Teknaf on Tuesday morning (Oct 4, 2022), said Commander of the Coast […]Continue Reading

Coast Guard on high alert near border to prevent Rohingya infiltration

October 3, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) has taken the highest alert position at the Teknaf border to prevent the entry of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar. Considering the recent incidents along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, the members of the Coast Guard are working relentlessly to avert any untoward situation, BCG said in a statement on Sunday (Oct 2, […]Continue Reading

Conditions in Myanmar don’t allow for safe return of Rohingyas: US

September 29, 2022

NEWS DESK US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas has said conditions in Myanmar, especially after recent incidents, “unfortunately do not allow” for a safe, voluntary, dignified or sustainable return of the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State. “Sadly, it does not look like they will any time soon,” he said while speaking […]Continue Reading

Rohingya refugees must go back home: PM Hasina

September 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said everyone needs to understand the reality that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas are becoming a huge burden for Bangladesh and they must go back home. “They (Rohingyas) need to go back to their own country. Everyone needs to understand (the situation). —it is not possible for us to […]Continue Reading

China assures Bangladesh of holding back Myanmar

September 26, 2022

NEWS DESK China on Monday assured Bangladesh that it would talk to Myanmar authorities to maintain peace along the border with Bangladesh. The Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Li Jiming, gave the assurance in a meeting with acting foreign secretary Rear Admiral (Retired) Md Khurshed Alam at his office in the ministry. The meeting was held […]Continue Reading

PM urges UN, global partners to take tangible actions for Rohingya repatriation

September 22, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her grave concerns over the holdup in Rohingya repatriation as the international attention is gradually shifting from the issue to newer global and internal conflicts in Myanmar, calling upon the UN and global community to take effective measures for their sustainable repatriation to their motherland. “The UN […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh Army ready to respond to Myanmar if needed: Army chief

September 21, 2022

NEWS DESK Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday held a high-level meeting with the security and law enforcement agencies at his secretariat office to examine the situation on the Myanmar border. Following the closed-door meeting, the minister said that Bangladesh’s army and other forces were ready to defend the country as they were entrusted. ‘We […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shelling along Bangladesh border continues; BGB patrols reinforced

September 21, 2022

NAIKHONGCHHARI CORRESPONDENT Wednesday morning, it was exactly 8:49. Myanmar’s security forces fired two mortar shells, one from Myanmar’s Tumbru Right Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 34 and the other from Myanmar’s Kokkotoingya Camp at Bangladesh’s Pillar No. 37. The people of Tumbru were scared when the first mortar shell went off on Continue Reading

Myanmar firings along Bangladesh border widen

September 20, 2022

NEWS DESK Firings along Bangladesh-Myanmar border became wider by Tuesday — stretching for about seven kilometres from Naikhyangchhari in Bandarban to Ukhyia in Cox’s Bazar, causing fresh tensions among civilians. As firings continued along border, Bangladesh on the day briefed diplomats from different countries outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the Continue Reading