BNP tells PM to visit India, China
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to go to different countries including India and China for resolving the Rohingya crisis as around three lakh members of the persecuted ethnic group entered Bangladesh in the recent days.
Potholes make city dwellers’ life hell
Countless potholes forming pools of stagnant rainwater on most roads, lanes and by-lanes of the Dhaka city are what the commuters and pedestrians are destined to face every day.
7 bodies found in Mirpur ‘extremist den’
A suspected extremist and six others, including two minors, were found dead on Wednesday at a multi-storey building in the capital’s Mirpur in a raid by Rapid Action Battalion members that continued since Monday night
Turkish FM, first lady to visit Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and first lady Emine Erdogan would visit Cox's Bazar on Thursday to see ethnic minority Rohingyas of Myanmar who fled from persecution in Rakhine State.
RAB finds relief rice missing from Tejgaon CSD
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday found huge discrepancy in the amount of relief rice released from Tejgaon central storage depot in the capital for distribution among flood victims.
Mustafiz wrap up Aussie innings
Mustafizur Rahman took the final wicket in the 11th ball of the day to wrap up the first innings of Australia total on the fourth day of the second Test in Chittagong on Thursday.
‘Never again’ is happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
THE world vowed never again after the Holocaust, never again after Bosnia, never again after Rwanda and yet in Myanmar it seems that here we are again. Over the last week.
Rohingya inflow swells further
The inflow of persecuted Rohingyas into Bangladesh, who fled the ongoing violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar, increased significantly as 50,000 of them crossed the border in the last 48 hours, taking the total to 1,23,000, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR estimation.
Put pressure on Myanmar: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing its nationals into Bangladesh and take back its refugees staying here
‘Extremist den’ raided in Dhaka
Rapid Action Battalion continued its operation to arrest a group of suspected extremists from a six-storey block of flats at Mirpur in Dhaka until about 11:45pm on Monday, despite a massive explosion in the reported hideout that hurt at least four RAB members.
