The US has announced it is withdrawing military assistance from Myanmar units and officers involved in violence against Rohingya Muslims that has triggered a mass exodus and humanitarian crisis. “We express our gravest concern with recent events in Rakhine state…
Myanmar today agreed to take back the Rohingya people, forced out of their homes in the Rakhine state of that country and pushed into Bangladesh, side by side with implementing the Kofi Annan report. Both Myanmar and Bangladesh would form…
Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented “the only international instrument that…
Dhaka, Oct 24 – The United States has asked the Myanmar government to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of all Rohingyas from Bangladesh who fled or been have displaced in Rakhine State.
Dhaka, Oct 24 – Despite concerns being raised from various corners, no special awareness programme is visible in the Rohingya camps to help the children and young girls avoid falling victim to sexual predators and human traffickers.
Dhaka, Oct 23 – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to Cox’s Bazar on Sunday to visit the Rohingyas who have taken shelter there, in the face of persecution in their own country Myanmar.
Dhaka, Oct 24– While the injured Rohingyas are getting free treatment, a woman, hit with four bullets, left the hospital without completing her treatment to receive the reliefs from the Balukhali Camp-1 in Ukhiya under Cox’s Bazar.
Dhaka, Oct 23 – In addition to the $116 million raised since the beginning of the Rohingya crisis, the international community has now pledged an additional US$340 million to meet the needs of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. Following the conclusion…
Nearly two months since Rohingya families began fleeing en masse to Bangladesh, thousands of children and women are still without basic lifesaving services, UNICEF said today. The warning comes as representatives of donor governments and humanitarian organizations meet in Geneva…
A nationwide campaign to combat the global rise in human trafficking has been launched by the National Committee for Combating Human Trafficking (NCCHT). “In the last 10 years, there has been an unprecedented rise in human trafficking globally, particularly sexual…
Jordan’s Queen Rania Al-Abdullah has called on the international community to stand up to the injustices inflicted on Rohingyas during her visit to the Kutupalang Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya Upazila. The queen visited Bangladesh as a representative…
Drivers of the most polluting vehicles will face an extra daily charge for driving into central London on weekdays from Monday in a bid to improve air quality in one of Europe’s most polluted cities. London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced…
The Safe Cities Index 2017 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by NEC. The report is based on the second iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 49 indicators covering digital security, health security, infrastructure…
Dhaka, Oct 23 – Domestic gas line explosion injured eight people, including two minor boys, of a family at a house on Alamin Road in Konapara area in the suburban Demra area of BD capital Dhaka early Monday.
Dhaka – The European Union will co-host the upcoming Pledging Conference on the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, with Kuwait, in Geneva on Monday, in partnership with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the International Organisation for…
Visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said Myanmar must take back its nationals as there should be a permanent solution to the crisis. Sushma Swaraj said this when she met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence…
A two-day home minister-level conference between Bangladesh and Myanmar will begin in Naypyidaw, the capital city of Myanmar, on Tuesday. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan will lead a 12-member Bangladesh delegation while Myanmar Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt Gen Kyaw…
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said it is clear that normalcy over the Rohingya issue will be restored only with the return of the displaced people to Rakhine state. “India is deeply concerned at the spate of…
Under the influence of land depression, Feni witnessed the highest 253 mm rainfall in nine hours to 3pm today, an official of the Met Office here said today. “Generally, Bangladesh witnesses depression at the Bay almost every year during the…
Dhaka, Oct 21 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the United Nations and the international community to put more pressure on Myanmar government for taking back their nationals from Bangladesh through peaceful rehabilitation in their homeland.
Save the Children CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt has said overcrowding, lack of schooling and widespread desperation among the Rohingyas in camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh are putting children at an alarming risk of exploitation and abuse. “There’re huge child protection…
Dhaka, Oct 21 – Moderate to heavy rainfall, triggered by land depression in the Bay, has been continuing throughout Bangladesh including the capital Dhaka, disrupting the normal life in the city and elsewhere in the country for the second day…
By International Organization for Migration Sana’a, Yemen, Oct 19 (IOM) – In early October, three Ethiopian boys in Yemen told IOM, the UN Migration Agency, “we miss our family and can no longer stay here.”
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to a quarter of deaths.…
British Airways has apologised to a Canadian family after they were bitten by bed bugs on an overnight flight. Heather Szilagyi was flying from Vancouver to London with her eight-year-old daughter and fiancé earlier this month, CTV reported.
Dhaka, Oct 20 – A depression over coastal Odisha and adjoining area moved Northwestwards and was centred at 06 am on Friday over Odisha and adjoining area as a land depression.
Dhaka, Oct 20 – Violence in Myanmar is driving up to 12,000 Rohingya children into Bangladesh every week putting them into danger of cholera and malnutrition, according to a new global report.
A global network of aid agencies has launched four new “innovation labs” in Bangladesh, Jordan, Kenya and the Philippines, aimed at finding fresh ways to help local communities prepare for disasters.
By Helen Briggs It’s known as the windscreen phenomenon. When you stop your car after a drive, there seem to be far fewer squashed insects than there used to be.
Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history, experts say, as the government bans the catching of a signature fish that has lived in the world’s deepest lake for centuries but is now under threat. Holding one-fifth of…