The foreign ministry yesterday summoned the Myanmar envoy in Dhaka and expressed serious concern over the fresh influx of Myanmar citizen known as Rohingyas into Bangladesh. Charge d’Affaires of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka met the Secretary (Asia & Pacific) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

Several thousand Rohingyas are waiting at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to enter Bangladesh, after fresh attacks on 30 Myanmar police outposts and army base in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on Friday. Rohingyas, most of them women, children and elderly people, are waiting at the no-man's land. Sources…

An attack by ethnic Rohingya militants in western Myanmar left 12 security personnel and 77 Rohingya Muslims dead in a dramatic escalation of communal violence that has plagued the region, as the United States urged authorities to avoid a response that would inflame the tensions, reports AFP from Yangon.…

Around 2,000 Hajj pilgrims, despite getting visas, are most likely to miss performing Hajj this year, as they are yet to get flight tickets due to the negligence of some corrupt Hajj agencies, source has alleged. Meanwhile, the Hajj Office yesterday issued a circular to ensure air tickets for all visa…

BNP yesterday alleged that ruling Awami League is 'spitting venom' on Chief Justice SK Sinha with a motive to cement one-party rule in the country by weakening the judiciary, reports UNB. "I think what Awami League is saying and what they're doing over the 16th amendment verdict are…

Thousands of people, particularly women and children, have been facing immense sufferings due to congestion on the Dhaka-Bangabandhu Bridge highway. Heavy traffic, rain, violation of traffic rules by drivers, Eid holidays, breakdown of old vehicles, narrow bridges and highways, lack of road divider,…

A possibility of rain looms large in the first Test as Bangladesh take on Australia for the first time after 11 years in a series in the longer version…