India expelling Rohingyas to Bangladesh, Myanmar without protections: HRW

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025. Authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them, said the New York-based rights body on August 29. In May, states in India governed by […]Continue Reading

Section 144 to be lifted if blockade called off: Khagrachari DC

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Khagrachari Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate ABM Iftekharul Islam Khondakar on Tuesday said the Section 144 imposed in the district would be considered for immediate withdrawal once the blockade programme of the local Jumma population is lifted and the situation returns to normal. He added that protesters need to end the blockade for […]Continue Reading

BGB issues statement refuting allegations levelled by Arakan Army; dismisses ‘propaganda’

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has refuted the allegations of the United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), that the paramilitary border force of Bangladesh provides support to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). “These allegations are misleading, as BGB does not […]Continue Reading

Myanmar army razed Rohingya villages to build security outposts, UN-backed report says

September 30, 2025

After the 2017 expulsion of the Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the military destroyed villages and mosques and repurposed their lands for security outposts, according to a U.N.-backed investigation released on Monday, REUTERS reports. Violence against the Rohingya escalated dramatically in August 2017 when Myanmar’s military launched an Continue Reading

UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return

September 30, 2025

Bloody fighting between Myanmar’s army and a separatist movement is proving an “insurmountable barrier” to the return of the country’s displaced Rohingya minority, a UN official warned Tuesday, AFP reports. The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been persecuted in Myanmar for decades, with many escaping the 2017 military clampdown labeled a Continue Reading

Hamas under pressure as Trump issues deadline on Gaza peace plan

September 30, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump gave Hamas three to four days on Tuesday to accept a U.S.-backed peace plan for Gaza, warning of “a very sad end” if the group rejected the proposal that he said was close to ending the two-year-old conflict, Reuters reports. Mediators Qatar and Egypt shared the 20-point plan with Hamas late […]Continue Reading

No evidence of rape found in medical report of Khagrachhari schoolgirl

September 30, 2025

PARBATTANEWS DESK The medical report of the Marma schoolgirl from Khagrachhari’s Singinala area has found no evidence of rape or gang rape. The three-member medical board of Khagrachhari Sadar Hospital confirmed the matter in a report signed on 28 September. The eighth-grader, aged around 12, was admitted to the hospital on the night of 23 […]Continue Reading

Five-member probe committee formed over Khagrachari violence

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK A five-member committee has been formed to investigate the clashes that erupted in Khagrachari on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of three people, injuries to several others, and the destruction of shops and homes. Khagrachari deputy commissioner ABM Iftekharul Islam Khandaker shared the update during a relief distribution programme at Ramsu Bazar on […]Continue Reading

There’s no anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, CA tells Zeteo

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has binned the allegations of persecutions on Hindu minority in Bangladesh under the interim government. “There is no anti-Hindu violence,” Professor Yunus said in an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan for Zeteo, conducted on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Dismissing Continue Reading

Trump optimistic on Gaza peace deal; Hamas says it lost contact with two hostages in Gaza City

September 29, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to finalize a Gaza peace plan proposal in a meeting on Monday with Israel’s Prime Minister, Trump told Reuters on Sunday, as Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Gaza City and the military wing of Hamas said it had lost contact with two hostages held there. The fate of the two […]Continue Reading