Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC.Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick…
Rangpur Sugar Mill authorities have started harvesting paddy from the lands of Santals in Baghda farm area of Gobindaganj upazila following a High Court order.The paddy harvesting started in the morning amid police protection in presence of district administration and…
At least 86 people have been killed and 30,000 displaced as violence continues unabated in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighbouring Bangladesh this week with some feared drowned after a boat sank in a river during…
Bangladesh has expressed deep concern at the continued deteriorating situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar due to the ongoing actions by the Myanmar Armed Forces causing dire consequences to people and its implications for Bangladesh.Myanmar Ambassador to Bangladesh Myo…
Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe “alt-right” group that celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes. In a far-ranging interview with the New York Times, the US president-elect was quoted as saying: “I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn.”
For years, they have lurked in the web’s dark corners, masking themselves with cartoon images and writing screeds about the demise of white culture under ominous pseudonyms. But on Saturday, in the wake of Donald J. Trump’s surprising election victory,…
United Nations (AP/UNB) – The United States on Monday accused 13 Syrian commanders and prison officials of responsibility for attacks on cities, residential areas and civilian infrastructure as well as acts of torture. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power read out the…
New York – New satellite imagery of Burma’s Rakhine State shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages between November 10-18, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should without further delay invite the…
A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people at a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul.Many more were wounded in the blast at an annual Shia ceremony at the Baqir ul Olum mosque in the west of…
A UN expert has called on the Myanmar government to take immediate action to tackle the deteriorating human rights situation in northern Rakhine state.The Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, criticised the authorities for placing…
Pakistan says it has shot down an unmanned Indian drone near the Line of Control. Lt Gen Asim Bajwa, chief of Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media wing, tweeted that an ‘Indian quadcopter’ was shot down at 4:45pm Pakistan time,…
By Cathy Breen I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They…
Cox’s Bazar – Members Coast Guard of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sent back some 130 Rohingyas, including women and children, to Myanmar while they were trying to enter into Bangladesh territory through the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday…
The only children’s hospital in besieged Aleppo is out of action after being bombed as it treated victims of a chlorine gas attack, forcing staff to evacuate babies in incubators and other patients injured over days of fierce bombardment. There…
Islamabad – Pakistani officials on Saturday accused Indian troops of “unprovoked” cross-border firing in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, triggering an intense exchange of fire in which three civilians were killed and three others wounded. AP/UNB news agency reported
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has taken initiatives to sensitise its members to reduce the killing of civilians along the India-Bangladesh border as it is possible to bring it down to a zero level.“We’re trying to educate our members so…
Brahmanbaria – Police on Friday foiled the planned long march of the students of Dhaka University (DU) and Jahangirnagar University (JU) towards Nasirnagar in Ashuganj upazila.
If Myanmar’s notorious army is to be believed — that’s a very big if — its soldiers are facing a highly deranged adversary.Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames. All of them belong to the Rohingya, a…
Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar are trying to escape a military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh.The people attempting to flee include children.Witnesses and Bangladeshi officials say that some people trying to flee have been…
Dhaka – Four percent of the global terrorist attacks in 2015 took place in Bangladesh, while nearly half of all terrorist attacks occurred in four countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, said a global report. The Global Terrorism Index-2016,…
Robert J. Burrowes In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent activists in Syria, which has been under martial law since 1963, started protesting against the brutal dictatorship…
Beirut — (AP-UNB) Russian missiles pounded opposition targets in Syria on Tuesday, the start of a much-anticipated offensive, while activists reported the resumption of bombing in rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo for the first time in nearly a month, apparently by…
Students again blocked Shahbagh intersection in the city on Tuesday, demanding the arrest of those who attacked Hindu people in Nasirnagr, Brahmanbaria and immediate removal of Minister Sayedul Hoque for his ‘derogatory remarks’ about Hindus following the attacks.Witnesses said a…
Militiamen, Iraqi Security Forces, and civilians mutilated and dragged the bodies of at least five dead fighters of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah on October 3, 2016. Anti-ISIS fighters also executed at…
Hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. surged in 2015 in the biggest increase since 9/11, according to FBI data released Monday. The increase from 2014 to 2015, as a racially charged presidential campaign got under way, was second only…
Dhaka – The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Mufti Abdul Hannan, a leader of the banned militant organisation Harkat-ul-Jihad and a death row convict, and four others to submit a concise statement by two weeks in a case filed over…
The government of Myanmar (Burma) has admitted firing on villages occupied by the Rohingya Muslim minority with helicopter gunships.
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian shelling in disputed Kashmir, the Pakistani military says.The troops died in “unprovoked” firing overnight in the Bhimber sector on the Line of Control (LoC). India blamed Pakistan for starting the clash.It is…
Myanmar’s military has killed about 30 members of what it has described as a Rohingya Muslim militant group, state media said on Monday, marking the largest escalation of the conflict since fighting erupted in the northwest a month ago.The weekend’s…
Four people were killed, including three in ‘police firing’, during a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at Sonakandi village in Raipura upazila on Monday that also left 50 people injured.The deceased were identified as Momen Mia, 17, son…