The rapid spread of “super malaria” in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs, reports BBC. It emerged in Cambodia but…
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Hasina’s proposals on Rohingya crisis very positive: Prof Riaz
The five-point proposal made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the United Nations (UN) to find solution to the Rohingya crisis is specific, which is a very positive but needs support from other countries, said an international analyst. “Bangladesh now…
PM doing politics over the Rohingya: BNP alleges
BNP on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is ‘doing politics’ over the Rohingya issue turning down their party’s call for forging a national unity to face the crisis. “The Prime Minister described the country’s most popular party, BNP,…
BNP criticises PM for not blasting Myanmar at UN
BNP on Friday voiced anger at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for not ‘denouncing’ Myanmar in her address to the United Nations General Assembly for carrying out genocide against Rohingyas in Rakhine State. “The Prime Minister this early morning addressed the…
Mymamar refugees describe military atrocities
Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burmese security forces in Burma’s Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” Human Rights Watch said today. Burmese army, police, and…
People’s tribunal finds Myanmar guilty of Rohingya genocide
The Myanmar government is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people and other Muslim minorities, according to the international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, reports a Malaysian Daily. The seven-man panel tribunal announced its verdict after considering documentary and expert evidence as…
AL – BNP leaders want tolerence for flourishing democracy
Prime Minister’s Political Adviser and Awami League Advisory Council Member HT Imam today gave paramount importance to political tolerance, urging all political parties to adhere to political forbearance for making democracy more functional. “Without political tolerance, democracy cannot be flourished,”…
Myanmar army chief urges internally displaced to return to Rakhine
Myanmar’s army chief called on Thursday for people internally displaced by violence in Rakhine State to go home and rebuild communities, but he made no mention of 422,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape his force’s operations. Senior…
BNP wants national unity to resolve Rohingya crisis
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said their party wants a national unity to drum up world opinion to resolve Rohingya crisis and repatriate Myanmar’s persecuted citizens taken shelter in the country. “There’s no alternative to forging…
Mob block aidboat shipment to Rakhine in Myanmar
Police in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fired warning shots to disperse a Buddhist mob trying to block a boat carrying aid, reports say. The boat was bound for the violence-hit north, where a military campaign sparked by militant attacks has…
Force Burma to take back Rohingyas – PM tells IOM chief
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy Swing to create pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. She made the call when the IOM DG…
Mob attack, Red Cross crash hamper urgently-needed Rohingya aid
Myanmar police clashed with an angry mob blocking an aid shipment in Rakhine state, hampering urgently-needed relief efforts for Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence. Communal tensions remain high across Rakhine where raids by Rohingya militants at the end of…
France jumpstarts initiative to protect environment
Today, in front of the United Nations General Assembly, French President Emmanuel Macron is set to launch the Global Pact for the Environment. Its primary aim is to bolster international efforts to protect the environment from climate change, pollution, and…
OIC urges Myanmar to take Rohingyas back
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged the government of Myanmar to take urgent steps for the sustainable return of Rohingya refugees and internally and externally displaced Rohingya Muslims to their homeland, in safety, security, dignity and with ensured…
Rohingya Exodus the Fastest, Most Concentrated Refugee Movement in Asia Since 1971
An uncle of mine, a reporter for the German news magazine, DER SPIEGEL, covered Bangladesh’s war of secession from Pakistan. I made Dhaka my home some 40 years later, for two years in a country at peace with its neighbours…
Bring climate justice to forefront of global pacts: PM
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the developed country leaders to bring their historical responsibilities and the issue of climate justice to the forefront of a robust and effective legally binding agreement to address the issues of climate change.…
BD attains cyber attack mitigation response capability
Bangladesh has achieved response capability of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) to mitigate the targeted cyber-attacks through a cyber-drill conducted by Organization of Islamic Cooperation- Computer Emergency Response Teams (OIC-CERT) on Tuesday. Bangladesh’s cyber-security platform BGD e-GOV CIRT is…
Declare affected areas in Rakhina safe zones: Dhaka
Bangladesh has reiterated its position on Rohingya issue and said the affected areas in Myanmar’s Rakhine State should be declared as ‘safe zones’ so that they could go back. Bangladesh also said implementation of Kofi Annan report should be the…
Suu Kyi speech fails to woo rights watchdogs
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s address assumed to be aimed at softening the global outrage over the Rohingya issue today visibly failed to woo rights groups and observers while some of them called it an effort to “bury heads…
The night one Russian officer saved the world
He was often called “the man who saved the world,” and in some sense, he did. On the night of Sept. 26, 1983, in a period of Cold War tension, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel on duty at a missile…
Myanmar isn’t afraid of outside scrutiny
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said her government does not fear “international scrutiny” of its handling of the growing Rohingya crisis. It was her first address to the country about the violence in northern Rakhine state…
Worldwide criticism of Suu Kyi’s much-hyped address
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticised internationally for failing to address the allegations of abuse by the military on the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state. In her first address since the army crackdown on insurgents in northwestern…
Suu Kyi address aimed to preempt int’l action against genocide
Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday she does not fear global scrutiny over the Rohingya crisis, pledging to hold rights violators to account and to resettle some of the 410,000 Muslims who have fled army operations in her country. But…
Delhi considers ‘illegal’ Rohingya refugees security threat
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that Rohingyas posed as a serious threat to national security with links to terror outfits, including the Islamic State. The Centre’s affidavit, filed in the apex court registry, said unless the government…
US flies powerful warplanes amid tensions over N Korea
The U.S. military flew advanced bombers and stealth jets over the Korean Peninsula and near Japan in drills with South Korean and Japanese warplanes on Monday, three days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan. The United States often…
Torry MP sees BNP leaders, urges participatory polls
Dhaka – The British Conservative Party expects that the next national election in Bangladesh would be competitive and participated by all political parties.
Myanmar violates airspace for govt’s subservient policy: BNP
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that Myanmar is repeatedly violating Bangladesh airspace due to the government’s incapability to run the country and its subservient policy. “The Myanmar is now violating our airspace again and again due…
BD Buddhists cancel Probarona Purnima for the Rohingya
The Buddhist community in Bangladesh has decided not to celebrate the upcoming ‘Probarona Purnima’ elaborately in a protest against the ongoing violence against Rohingyas in Myanmar. “We have decided not to celebrate the upcoming ‘Probarona Purnima’ elaborately”, said Swapan Barua…
Rights groups urged UN to punish Myanmar Army
Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human…
Stocks mark new record high
The prices of most of the shares on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the port city’s bourse – Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – saw upward trend in early trading on Sunday as optimistic investors were active.