Myanmar yesterday formally proposed taking back the Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh but offered no specifics on how the repatriation of such a massive refugee population should take place. Bangladesh, on the other hand, proposed a bilateral agreement to facilitate the repatriation process and handed over a draft of the proposed deal to a visiting minister of the neighbouring country.

An estimated 7,500 Rohingya children in the squalid camps in Cox's Bazar are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, said Unicef as it launched yesterday a $76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis.

Six-year-old Jashim sat, dressed in a grey T-shirt and trousers smeared with mud, amid piles of donated clothes strewn along the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf road. He suddenly started running after a slow moving car.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said people will eat one meal a day and share another with the distressed Rohingyas, if necessary.

As the sun's first light fell across the hills of Balukhali in Ukhia, a frailly built Mohammad Syed could be seen trying his best to walk quicker with the help of a wooden stick.

The World Food Programme will provide food support to the five lakh Rohingyas, who have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, until they are repatriated, Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya yesterday said.

Bangladesh's utilisation of Indian lines of credit has been nothing more than a sorry state of affairs in the past seven years. Over the period, Dhaka has witnessed renewed vigour in New Delhi's commitments to financing projects with credits doubling and redoubling.

Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), is observed across the country with due religious fervour and solemnity.

The Election Commission has decided to take up a state-funded project to distribute smart NID cards among voters following a failed attempt to get the work done through joint finance with the World Bank.

On a pitch that they described as unexpectedly flat, Bangladesh's batsmen were shot out for 320 in response to South Africa's

The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ended yesterday with immersion of Devi Durga.

Bangladesh has called for measures to ensure safe, voluntary and sustainable return of all the people displaced from Myanmar into its territory over the years, including those displaced recently.

The crisis has generated multiple implications for neighbouring States and the larger region, including the risk of inter-communal

Mohammad Zafar held one of his twin sons tight in his arms and kept the other in the lap as the trawler bobbed up and down in rough waters amid heavy rain.

Rab yesterday arrested the prime accused in the murder of teenage boy Sagor Mia in Kishoreganj's Bhairab upazila.

Although they regained some ground, Bangladesh continued to be outclassed by South Africa as the hosts seized a stranglehold on the first Test after

China and Russia has once again prevented the UN Security Council from making any decision on Myanmar to protect Rohingyas from atrocities, just three years after demonstrating a strong anti-genocide stance.

Members of Congress are sharpening their criticism of Myanmar's crackdown that has forced a half-million Rohingyas to flee to

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the "humanitarian nightmare" for Myanmar's Rohingyas yesterday and demanded that the government end military operations and open humanitarian access to its conflict-wracked western region.

Bangladesh letting go of opportunities created has been a common feature of their play overseas, but yesterday they scorned an