The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been working with the Bangladesh government to collect data on the estimated 5,36,000 forcibly displaced Rohingyas of Rakhine state of Myanmar and their needs, reports UNB. "The family counting exercise will enable the Government, UNHCR…

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested two expatriates from the city’s Sabujbagh area early yesterday for their alleged involvement in militancy, reports UNB. The arrestees are Md Daulat Zaman alias Muaz al-Bangali, 35, and Md Sohel Hawlader alias Belal Habsi al-Bangali, 27. They got involved…

William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations migration agency, arrived in the capital yesterday with an intention to mobilise necessary resources to provide humanitarian and protection to hundreds of housands of Rohingyas, who had to…

A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have killed at least 230 people, reports BBC quoting…

Pressure was mounting Sunday on Catalonia's leader ahead of a Madrid-imposed deadline to decide whether to defy international pleas for unity and declare independence or back down and unleash the wrath of his separatist allies, reports AFP from  Barcelona. Spain's government has given Carles…

The organising secretary of the ruling Awami League (AL), Ahmed Hossain, yesterday said the Rohingyas who have entered the country following persecution by the Myanmarese junta have become a “blessing for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina”. “Many people are saying that the Rohingyas have…