Rohingyas entering Bangladesh in groups from India: Foreign minister

May 17, 2022

NEWS DESK: Rohingya refugees are entering Bangladesh in groups from India, Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has said. “They are coming here in order to get better meals. It’s a concern for us. Security will be enhanced on the border to prevent them from entering here,” he told reporters at the ministry on Tuesday […]Continue Reading

Marma couple beaten bloody by JSS terrorists in Kaptai’s Raikhali

May 13, 2022

KAPTAI CORRESPONDENT A Marma couple has been beaten bloody by an armed group of JSS terrorists in Sitapahar area of Raikhali union in Kaptai upazila of Rangamati. The incident took place at 7 pm on Thursday (May 12). The tribal couple – Chinanjo Marma (38) and her husband Thoichai Marma – are currently undergoing treatment […]Continue Reading

Reports on Rohingya children learning closure false, fabricated: MoFA

May 6, 2022

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has said the reports on closure of Rohingya children learning facilities and barring teachers or students to attend the classes are false and fabricated. “It is deep concern that disinformation is being propagated about the learning facilities for the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)/Rohingya children,” the ministry Continue Reading

7 held with 1.2 lakh pieces of yaba tablets in St Martin’s

April 26, 2022

Teknaf Correspondent: Bangladesh Coast Guard has arrested seven people in possession of 102,000 pieces of yaba tablets during a raid near St Martin’s in the Bay of Bengal. The arrested have been identified as Rohingyas Hamid Hossain, Hossain Johar, Md Jobayer, Lal Mohammad, Md Yasin, hailing from Bangladesh Rohingya camps, and Bangladeshi citizens Bashir Ahmed […]Continue Reading

Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary visits Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar

April 26, 2022

Ukhiya Correspondent: Crown Princess of Denmark Mary Elizabeth visited a Rohingya camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. She talked to Rohingyas and inquired about them, particularly their living conditions at the camp. On Tuesday morning (April 26), Princess Mary arrived at the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp. She first visited the Camp No 5. And […]Continue Reading

India arrests former BSF commandant in cattle smuggling case

April 25, 2022

News Desk: Former BSF commandant Satish Kumar has been arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to alleged cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh international border in West Bengal, the Enforcement Directorate said on Monday, the Press Trust of India reports. Kumar is a former commanding officer of the 36th Border Security Force […]Continue Reading

Govt has accepted definition of native Muslims: Assam CM

April 24, 2022

News Desk: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the government has accepted the definition of native Muslims of Assam as recommended by cabinet sub-committees, according to the local media report. Last year, the state government had constituted seven sub-committees to suggest measures and recommendations for overall development of the indigenous Assamese Muslims Continue Reading

‘Fearful of deportation, some Rohingya in India await crossing over to Bangladesh’

April 19, 2022

News Desk: The deportation of a Rohingya woman back to Myanmar has sparked fears that India is preparing to expel many more refugees from the country, The Guardian reports. Hasina Begum, 37, was deported from Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago, despite holding a UN verification of her refugee status, intended to protect holders from arbitrary […]Continue Reading

Sufferings of passport seekers mount as brokers infest Khagrachhari Passport Office

April 19, 2022

Staff Correspondent, Khagrachhari Khagrachhari Regional Passport Office is so much infested with brokers and lobbyists that anybody going there would have an experience like it were the brokers and lobbyists that run the Passport Office –because they are everywhere. For this, passport service recipients suffer so much. If you do not turn to brokers and […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s ex-army officer calls Rohingya crackdown ‘genocide,’ offers to testify

April 17, 2022

Captain Nay Myo Thet served in Myanmar’s military for nearly six years in Rakhine state but defected in December and relocated to an area under the control of anti-junta Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) forces. In 2016, a military crackdown forced some 90,000 Rohingya to flee Rakhine state and cross into neighboring Bangladesh, while a larger one in 2017 […]Continue Reading