Rohingyas who will return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to officials and plans seen by Reuters.

India has said Myanmar must take back its nationals who have fled their homes to escape violence and taken refuge in Bangladesh. "Myanmar must take back their nationals... this is a big burden for Bangladesh. How long will Bangladesh bear it? There should be a permanent solution to this crisis," visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was quoted as saying at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Gono Bhaban yesterday.

The rain induced by a depression continued to make people suffer across the country yesterday with many thoroughfares, roads and alleys going under knee-to-waist-deep water.

Sonali Bank has decided to waive interest of Tk 129 crore on more than Tk 360 crore loan of Alltex Group owned by former lawmaker and Awami League leader Afsar Uddin Ahmad.

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's

The ever-growing Rohingya influx is a crisis not only for Bangladesh but also for the region as well as the entire world, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Robert D Watkins has said.

"I'll put 100 percent of the blame on her because she is the leader."

Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh since late August, says Unicef. “Many Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh have witnessed atrocities in Myanmar no child should ever see, and all have suffered tremendous loss,” Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a statement yesterday.

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Rohingya crisis, with no woman safe from the risk of sexual attack as the Myanmarese nationals are driven out of its homeland, according to experts in the field and those caught up in the crisis.

Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published yesterday.

Unremitting rain, triggered by a depression in the Bay, drenched the entire country yesterday, flooding many streets and

Two Chhatra League leaders and an admission seeker at Dhaka University were arrested yesterday over leaking the question paper of

Suicide attackers in Afghanistan killed at least 72 people at two mosques yesterday -- one in the Afghan capital of Kabul and the other in the central province of Ghor, reports Reuters.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, recalling the warrant for her arrest in two graft cases tied to Zia

Over three months after the Anti-Corruption Commission sued 61 people for mismanagement and corruption in the construction of

During the polls talks with the Election Commission, most political parties wanted the deployment of the army and dissolution of

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday said time to bring money from abroad through hundi and corruption was

Already grappled with soaring prices of essentials, tenants in the capital are likely to find themselves in more trouble as the authorities are increasing the tax on holdings manifold. Although the building owners are to pay the tax, the tenants fear they will have to bear the brunt in the end. They say the landlords will realise a major part of the revised amount from them.

Representatives from Cox's Bazar 's Civil Society and non-government organisations yesterday formed a forum demanding the shifting of Rohingyas from the tourist town, protecting local environment and upholding human rights of the Rohingyas.

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs has viewed dozens of burned and destroyed villages in northern Rakhine during his recent tour by air, and called on Myanmar to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by security forces. It was the first visit by a top UN official from its New York headquarters since the latest violence began in Rakhine in late August, forcing nearly 6,00,000 Rohingya to cross into Bangladesh in one of the worst and fastest growing humanitarian crisis in history.