DHAKA: The Rohingya are the world's largest stateless community and one of its most persecuted minorities. The Times of India on Thursday (September 07) reported that more than 2,50,000 new refugees have since flooded into Bangladesh bringing with them harrowing stories of murder,

DHAKA: The Rohingya people, who have entered Bangladesh after fleeing from the violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar, will not be allowed back in without proof of citizenship, said the National Security Adviser (NSA) of Myanmar U Thaung Tun. The decision was made in a National Security

DHAKA: Hurricane Irma hammered a string of northeast Caribbean islands, thrashing them with rain and winds of up to 180 mph, and leaving at least nine people dead. The hurricane battered several islands, including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British Virgin Islands. Its howling winds

DHAKA: The de facto leader of Myanmar and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday (Sep 6) issued a statement on the current violence and Rohingya crisis of Rakhine state that has sparked worldwide criticism.   Suu Kyi blamed the “terrorists” for spreading “misinformation”

DHAKA: Officials in Florida's Key West and popular Caribbean tourist islands ordered people to evacuate on Tuesday (Sep 5) as Irma, a “potentially catastrophic” Category Five hurricane, was set to make landfall. The monster hurricane coming on the heels of Harvey, which struck

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Myanmar at a tricky time when the country and its de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi are increasingly coming under sharp international criticism due to the plight of Rohingya Muslims. Modi’s three-day visit is expected to cover a

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is “begging for war” with his latest and most powerful nuclear bomb test, the US envoy to the United Nations has said. Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council in New York that America did not want a war but its patience was

Two explosions, sound of gunfire and thick black smoke in a Myanmar area near the Bangladeshi border on Monday (Sep 4) have been reported in International media amid the ongoing violence in Rakhine state and intrusion of nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingyas to Bangladesh. Quoting locals,

DHAKA: About 90, 000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh and some in Maldives in the last ten days since violence erupted in Rakhine state of Myanmar on August 25. International media reported on Monday (September 04). The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive

DHAKA: Military offensive against insurgents leaves thousands stranded without life-saving supplies. The UK-based Guardian reported on Monday (September 04). The Guardian claimed that they have learned, Myanmar has blocked all United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies

As violence against Rohingya Muslims continues in Myanmar, international organizations and countries have condemned Nobel Laureate and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for letting the atrocities continue. Pakistan’s Nobel Laureate and female education activist Malala Yousufzai has

The influx of Rohingya Muslims has continued with at least 73,000 people crossing into Bangladesh after violence killed nearly 400 people in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state late last month, UN refugee agency says. Al Jazeera, the state-funded broadcaster of Qatar, reported on

Rohingya children have been beheaded and civilians burned alive, according to witness testimony amid claims that Burma's military and paramilitary forces are committing "genocide" or a "pogrom" against the Muslim minority in the country’s western Rakhine state. The Independent, a

DHAKA: North Korea says it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon that could be loaded onto a long-range missile. The secretive communist state said its sixth nuclear test was a “perfect success”, hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Nine new ministers on Sunday (September 03) took oath in fresh Cabinet reshuffle in India, while four were promoted as Cabinet ministers, reports Indian media. The Narendra Modi government brought the reshuffle in the Cabinet for third time after Narendra Modi took charge as

DHAKA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands across the border into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence, reports The Guardian “There is a genocide there,” Erdoan

DHAKA: Kenya's Supreme Court has annulled the result of last month's presidential election, citing irregularities, and ordered a new one within 60 days. The ruling makes Kenya the first African country where an opposition court challenge against presidential poll results has

Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar's northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in decades. Around 27,400 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh

DHAKA: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, ordering his property confiscated, a court official said on Thursday (Aug 31). Musharraf was charged with Bhutto's 2007

DHAKA: More than two million Muslims from around the world began the hajj pilgrimage Wednesday (August 30), reports Arab News. They arrived in Mina to spend the day of Tarwiyah and follow the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).  Pilgrims will then head to Mount Arafat on Thursday