Five Rohingya youths detained in Magura

September 16, 2023

NEWS DESK Police detained five Rohingya youths from a bus of ‘New Green Express’ of Wapada area in Magura’s Shreepur upazila on Friday night. The detainees, aged between 22 to 25 years, used to live in Cox’s Bazar Kutupalong’s refugee camp, said Kanchon Kumar Ray, officer-in-charge of Shreepur police station. Tipped off, they were detained […]Continue Reading

Myanmar soon to offer visa on arrival to Indian and Chinese travellers, suggests report

September 16, 2023

In a recent development, Myanmar has announced to offer visas on arrival to Indian and Chinese tourists, as reported by local media. Reports suggest that the ruling junta (a group, especially of military officers, who rule a country by force) want to attract foreign visitors back to the country along with their cash, AFP reports. […]Continue Reading

UN rights expert urges US to go further with sanctions against Myanmar junta

September 16, 2023

The U.N. human rights expert for Myanmar on Wednesday called on the United States to further tighten sanctions on the country’s military rulers to include their main revenue source, the state oil and gas enterprise, Reuters reports. U.N. Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews, a former member of the U.S. Congress, also said it was vital for […]Continue Reading

UK announces £3,000,000 additional humanitarian support to Rohingyas

September 12, 2023

UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Philip Barton announced that Britain would provide £3,000,000 (around TK 42 crore) as new funding to support Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char. “I am pleased to announce a further UK contribution of £3,000,000 to UNHCR, which will help ensure refugees in Continue Reading

DU student rescued after kidnapping on way to Sajek

September 6, 2023

NEWS DESK A Dhaka University student was rescued on Wednesday evening, around seven hours after she was kidnapped by a hill-based group near Sajek Valley of Rangamati. The victim Dipita Chakma is a post-graduate student of Public Administration department of the university. Dipita was rescued at about 7:00pm from Daripara area under Sajek police station. […]Continue Reading

UN allocates $8m forRohingya refugee response in Bangladesh

September 6, 2023

NEWS DESK The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated $8 million to provide support to almost a million Rohingya refugees staying in camps in Cox’s Bazar and on the island of Bhasan Char. The funding allocation to Bangladesh is part of a CERF initiative to support underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 countries […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army alleges Myanmar junta’s covert support for ARSA

September 1, 2023

U Khaing Thu Kha, spokesperson for the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA), stated that they are closely observing the Military Council’s moves towards covert support of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a designated terrorist group, as a subsidiary entity to further the interests of the Regime forces, Burma News International reports. “We are Continue Reading

Manipur violence deepens distrust between communities

August 30, 2023

Lawmakers in Manipur, a northeastern state in India, rocked in recent months by ethnic violence, gathered for a special session of the state legislature on Tuesday, DW reports. The meeting lasted just an hour, as a war of words erupted between ruling party and opposition legislators over the tense and volatile situation in the state. Speaker Thokchom […]Continue Reading

Beijing for joint global efforts for Rohingya repatriation

August 26, 2023

NEWS DESK Highlighting the importance of joint global efforts to ensure repatriation of the Rohingyas, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen has said those who keep claiming that the situation in Myanmar is “not conducive” to repatriation have seldom visited Rakhine. “It’s quite strange. And they didn’t answer the question whether the Continue Reading

Displaced and disenfranchised: Rohingya strive to preserve cultural roots

August 25, 2023

NEWS DESK Uprooted from their ancestral lands, a group of young Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh are trying to keep their heritage alive among their community’s children and teenagers, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, 26, is one of those high school graduates, shunned from higher education in his native Rakhine, a state in western […]Continue Reading