Donor governments seeking to raise a billion dollars in aid for Rohingya refugees should acknowledge the crimes perpetrated against them in Myanmar as genocide and crimes against humanity, rights organisation Fortify Rights said today.

Bangladesh and India are planning to introduce passenger train on Dhaka-Siliguri route from March next year as restoration of Chilahati-Haldibari rail link will be completed by December this year.

At least 11 women were killed Wednesday in a stampede in an Afghan football stadium where thousands had gathered to apply for visas at a nearby Pakistan consulate, officials said.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today stressed the need to redouble efforts to find solutions for the stateless and displaced Rohingya people.

The Philippine president has said he has no problem with being held responsible for the many killings under his anti-drugs crackdown, adding that he was ready to face charges that could land him in jail, though not charges of crimes against humanity.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda has said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, that gives Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, will be implemented soon.

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldier was captured today by India in eastern Ladakh where the troops of the two countries are locked in a six-month-old standoff.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India has filed charge sheets against 12 people including nine Bangladeshi nationals for their alleged involvement in trafficking girls from Bangladesh to India for prostitution, an official from the agency revealed today.

Sixteen people were killed when a passenger bus was forced off the road by a landslide in a mountainous area of northern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.

Bangladesh has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Bangladesh on March 26 next year in person to jointly celebrate the Independence Day of Bangladesh.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said there are requests to India from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Qatar and Bhutan for holding vaccine clinical trials in their countries.

UAE has asked airlines and travel agents to implement new procedures for visit/tourist visa holders flying into Dubai from five countries including Bangladesh, after hundreds of passengers stranded at Dubai International Airport since October 13 were flown back to their countries, Gulf News said in a report.

India announce it will hand over a kilo class submarine to Myanmar Navy, giving that country its first such warship.

India today resumed work on Asia’s longest tunnel road in Jammu and Kashmir that would provide all-weather connectivity between mainland and strategically located areas bordering China and Pakistan.

Noted actor Soumitra Chatterjee has tested negative for coronavirus and his condition has improved, doctors attending on him at a private hospital in Kolkata say.

The US will engage with Myanmar anew over the Rohingya repatriation and human rights violations in Rakhine State after the national elections in Myanmar to be held on November 8, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said after a meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Beigun.

Newly appointed High Commissioner of India Vikram Kumar Doraiswami today said Bangladesh will get top priority in the trial, distribution, delivery and partial co-production of a potential Indian Covid-19 vaccine.

The meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) between Bangladesh and India may be held within this year, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said.

After 14 months in detention, Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has been freed as the federally-ruled territory administration revoked the stringent Public Safety Act charges against her.

An 80-metre long Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Maa drifted from the anchorage point and ran aground due to storm amid deep depression near Tenneti Park of Andhra Pradesh in India early today.