Rohingya genocide case to proceed
Reuters, The Hague
22 July 2022 Rohingya Influx
Need 1 week to assess situation
Star Report
22 July 2022 Bangladesh
Noab hikes newspaper price by Tk 2 from Jul 25
Staff Correspondent
21 July 2022 Bangladesh
Yet-to-start mega projects: Consider putting them on hold
Staff Correspondent
21 July 2022 Bangladesh
‘You cannot remain silent’
Staff Correspondent
21 July 2022 Bangladesh

PM expects no help from Trump

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she spoke to US President Donald Trump yesterday about Rohingyas flooding into Bangladesh from
19 September 2017

UN wants unfettered, full access to Rakhine

UN human rights investigators yesterday demanded "full and unfettered" access to Myanmar to probe the situation in its conflict-affected Rakhine State amid an aid group's fear of "very real risk" of deaths of Rohingyas there.
19 September 2017

Rains heap further woes on refugees

Nur Begum, 55, came to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Maungdaw with her young son and daughter in tow. She witnessed her husband
19 September 2017

India 'deeply concerned over violence in Rakhine'

India's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Rajiv K Chander, yesterday said New Delhi was deeply concerned about the
19 September 2017

Govt wasn't alert to depleting stock

Following a blame game over volatility in the rice market, the government and rice traders reached some decisions yesterday to help
19 September 2017

Exodus exposes 'abject failure' of world leaders

Human Rights Watch has called upon world leaders to impose targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo on the Myanmar military to stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.
18 September 2017

Orphaned, in extreme shock

The two sisters can remember quite distinctly how it happened.
18 September 2017

Death in Rab Custody: Family says it was murder

Expatriate Majharul Islam returned home from Malaysia seven years back to look after his parents and their properties.
18 September 2017

BASIC Bank Loan Scam: 50 ghost firms traced

BASIC Bank has finally been able to trace 50 firms which took loans from the bank showing fake documents with the help of its former chairman Abdul Hye Bachchu.
18 September 2017

Govt plans OMS for grassroots

With no let-up in the spiraling rice price, the government has planned to expand Open Market Sale of subsidised foodgrains to the upazilas across the country.
18 September 2017

Prabarana Purnima: Buddhists to shun festivity in protest

The country's Buddhist community will refrain from flying Fanush (colourful paper lanterns) in Prabarana Purnima this year in protest at the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar.
18 September 2017

Trump slams UN for bloated bureaucracy

US President Donald Trump yesterday criticised the United Nations for bloated bureaucracy and mismanagement on his first visit to UN
18 September 2017

PM attends meeting on UN reforms

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday joined a high-level meeting on UN reforms hosted by Donald Trump when the US president urged the United Nations to improve the way it operates.
18 September 2017

BCL leader held while abducting univ girl

A Chhatra League leader was arrested in Narayanganj last night while he was taking away a female private university student he had just abducted, police said.
18 September 2017

Suu Kyi’s last chance

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has "a last chance" to halt an army offensive that has forced tens of thousands of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh. "The tragedy will be absolutely horrible" unless she acted now, Guterres told BBC's HARDtalk ahead of UN General Assembly that will feature the Rohingya refugee crisis, one of the fastest growing in recent years.
17 September 2017

Rohingya was never ethnic group

Myanmar's army chief has urged the country to unite over the "issue" of the Rohingya, a minority group he says was never an ethnic group, and which his troops are accused of systematically purging.
17 September 2017

A friend in need is a friend indeed

Two years ago, Bangladesh felt a “strengthened bond” with India that “would benefit people of the two countries as well as of the
17 September 2017

Soaring Price of Rice: Govt intervenes to stabilise market

With rice prices soaring across the country, the government yesterday made a rather delayed intervention in the form of distribution of
17 September 2017

Cheaper Atap or pricey Shiddho?

Tofayel Alam has been facing economic hardship with the rice price skyrocketing these days.
17 September 2017

Police move to maintain harmony

The Police Headquarters has instructed the law enforcers to form a committee in every district to maintain communal harmony across the country, especially in the Buddhist-populated areas.
16 September 2017