A few trawlers travelled from Shaporidwip to Saint Martin island via Kular Char on Thursday as the Teknaf upazila administration relaxed vessel ban through the Naf River.
Tension remained high along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as of Wednesday evening amid a heightened risk of a fresh influx of Rohingya people as rebel group Arakan Army had established its full control along the border between the two countries in the Rakhine state...
Bangladesh has beefed up security measures along its border with Myanmar as fighting rebel group Arakan Army on Sunday captured the remaining base of the Border Guard Police in the Rakhaine state...
SINCE its independence, Myanmar has been plagued by instability and ethnic conflicts, particularly in the Arakan (Rakhine) state, home to two major communities: the Rohingya Muslims and the...
UPON publication of the report by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State led by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in August 2017, there should not have been any debate over the Rohingya people鈥檚 nationality and citizenship issues. According to media reports, in 2017, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement regarding the...
The police detained a Rohingya man while he was attempting to register as a voter in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha on Sunday.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency said Saturday.
THE public statement of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan KC on the arrest warrant application against General Min Aung Hlaing during his recent visit to Bangladesh is a long-awaited but anticipated development in the ICC鈥檚 quest to ensure justice for the deported Rohingya population currently taking shelter in Bangladeshi refugee camps...
The Election Commission said on Thursday that displaced Rohingya people, who took shelter in Cox鈥檚 Bazar fleeing persecution in Myanmar, were trying to collect national identity cards from different election offices in Bangladesh.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A Khan, called on Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the state guest house Jamuna in Dhaka on Wednesday, says a press release.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim AA Khan on Wednesday announced that his office was filing an application to the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC for a warrant of arrest against Myanmar Senior General and acting president Min Aung Hlaing for the 鈥榗rimes against humanity of deportation and persecution of the Rohingya鈥�...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday underlined the need for a national consensus to address the Rohingya crisis, which has been further complicated by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State...
United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution deciding to hold an all-stakeholder high-level UN Conference in 2025 to propose a time-bound plan for sustainable resolution of the Rohingya crisis.
United Nations World Food Programme would be able to reach nearly 76,000 Rohingyas in Bangladesh and provide them with a full ration of US$12.50 for two months as Republic of Korea has stepped up its support to the WFP with a new contribution of US$2 million, says a press release...
Newly appointed high representative for Rohingya affairs Khalilur Rahman criticised the lack of significant action on the ongoing Rohingya crisis saying no major initiative was taken by now to resolve the issue.
United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution deciding to hold an all-stakeholder high-level UN Conference in 2025 to propose a time-bound plan for sustainable resolution of the Rohingya crisis...
Bangladesh president Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday called upon the international community, including Canada to take pragmatic measures to solve the long-standing Rohingya crisis.
Explaining briefly why India and China were not coming forward in an expected way to help resolve the Rohingya crisis, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday said there was a potential threat not just for Bangladesh, but the region and beyond...
THE persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, especially in Rakhine State, has caused multiple rounds of forced migration into Bangladesh. This trend is rooted in long-standing exclusionary policies and military actions targeting the Rohingyas because of their ethnicity and religious differences, depriving and expelling them of their homeland...
At least 81 Rohingya people were detained on Monday morning by security agencies and local people after they had illegally entered the Alikadam area near the border between...
Unidentified men gunned down a Rohingya youth at a camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar, said police on Monday...
Thai police arrested a trio suspected people smugglers over the deaths of three Rohingya refugees who suffocated in the back of trucks in Thailand, officers said Saturday.
The Friends in Village Development Bangladesh, through its Prevention and Response of Child Protection Concerns through Timely Initiative with Child Engagement project, held a graduation ceremony in Rohingya Camp number 21 and 24 in Cox鈥檚 Bazar for adolescents boys and girls, who completed life-skills training...
In the 25th phase of the relocation process, 506 Rohingya refugees on Tuesday arrived at Bhasan Char, an island upazila of Hatiya in Noakhali....
The United Nations鈥� World Food Programme has received new contribution of $121 million from USAID鈥檚 bureau for humanitarian assistance to support ongoing humanitarian efforts in the...
At least 146 Rohingya refugees landed in western Indonesia on Thursday, a local official said, as arrivals of members of the persecuted minority pick up again as sea conditions calm.
Unidentified assailants shot three members of a Rohingya family to death at a camp designated for living the persecuted Myanmar nationals in the Lalpahar area under Ukhia upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar early Monday.
A boat loaded with more than 100 Rohingya refugees was spotted off Indonesia鈥檚 westernmost province with at least one dead body seen on board, local officials said Saturday.
Three Rohingya refugees suffocated to death while packed into trucks in Thailand, with two suspected people-smugglers arrested Friday, police said.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the recent influx of more than 40,000 Rohnigyas into Bangladesh fleeing conflict in the...