Automatic rifle among arms, ammo seized in Rohingya camps

June 18, 2022

NEWS DESK The Armed Police Battalion seized one United States-made assault rifle, a pistol and a cache of ammunition at Moynarghona Rohingya camp at Ukhia in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night, June 16, 2022, and arrested two Rohingya men early Friday, June 17, 2022, in connection with the arms. The arrested are Mohammad Hossain, 30, […]Continue Reading

‘ARSA member’ shot dead at Rohingya camp

June 16, 2022

NEWS DESK Criminals shot dead a member of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army in Ukhiya’s Kutupalong camp on Wednesday night, said police. Md Selim, 30, a resident of B-3/2 block of the camp, was killed over establishing supremacy between two Rohingya gangs, according to police. Naimul Hoque, commander of Armed Police Battalion-14(APBn-14) in Cox’s Bazar, […]Continue Reading

Bandarban diarrhea death toll 10

June 16, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN At least 10 people have died due to diarrhea in Bandarban, a hill district in Bangladesh, over the last six days. Of them, nine died in the hill district’s Thanchi upazila and the rest one in Alikadam. Civil Surgeon Dr Niharanjan Nandi confirmed the diarrhea death toll on Thursday, June 16, 2022. […]Continue Reading

Civil society for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in camps

June 15, 2022

NEWS DESK Civil society members at a webinar have called for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in Cox’s Bazar camps. A collective plan should also be devised in order to cope with the reduced foreign aid for the refugees, they told the webinar titled “Humanitarian Response to Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)” organised […]Continue Reading

‘ARSA’ killed Mohib Ullah to stop Rohingya return: Chargesheet

June 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Police investigations have revealed that Mohammad Mohib Ullah was killed by the ARSA group as he was working to get the Rohingyas – who have taken shelter in Bangladesh – back to their home country, Myanmar. ARSA (Arakan Republican Salvation Army) is an armed organization based in Myanmar’s Rakhine. Mohib Ullah, taking refuge […]Continue Reading

Police file chargesheet against 29 over murder of Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah

June 13, 2022

NEWS DESK Cox’s Bazar district police have lodged a charesheet in the murder case of Rohingya leader Mohammad Mohib Ullah  after an eight-and-a-half month investigation. Cox’s Bazar Additional Superintendent of Police Rafiqul Islam said the chargesheet was lodged with the district’s senior judicial magistrate’s court on Monday afternoon. A total of Continue Reading

Rohingya leader killed in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp

June 10, 2022

UKHIYA AND TEKNAF CORRESPONDENTS A Rohingya leader has been killed at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila. Dead Md Azim Uddin (35) was the head majhi (leader) of Block C at Rohingya Camp No 18. He is son of Kamal Uddin, a resident of Block-L/18 of Camp-17. The incident took place at […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s shadow government to create its own police force

June 8, 2022

NEWS DESK A parallel government opposed to military rule in Myanmar announced on Tuesday it was forming its own police force, in its latest effort to hamper the junta’s efforts to govern after a coup last year, Reuters reports. The military has labelled its opponents “terrorists”, including the shadow National Unity Government (NUG), an alliance […]Continue Reading

Ctg depot fire: Love, respect pour in for firemen Mithu, Nipon killed in line of duty

June 6, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, RANGAMATI Last rites of firefighters Mithu Dewan and Nipon Chakma, who lost their lives in an inferno at a container depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, have been performed in their home district – Rangamati. Prior to this, they were given a guard of honour by the fire service. Mithu and Nipon’s funerals were held […]Continue Reading

Ctg depot fire: Two firefighters, from Rangamati, killed

June 6, 2022

NEWS DESK Two of the firefighters who died trying to douse an inferno at an inland container depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong hail from Rangamati. They are Mithu  Dewan, 50, a native of Rangamati’s West Tribal area, and Nipon, from Mantripara in the city’s College Gate area. Mithu worked at Kumira Fire Service Station. […]Continue Reading