The baby was screaming, and an elderly woman was desperately trying to calm it down, but she could not hush its crying. Sixty-five-year-old Fatema Khatun…

Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burmese security forces in Burma's Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. Burmese army, police, and ethnic Rakhine…

Some 270,000 refugees have fled Myanmar’s violence-wracked Rakhine state and entered Bangladesh in the last fortnight, most from the Muslim Rohingya minority, the United Nations said yesterday, reports AFP from Cox’s Bazar. “An estimated 270,000 refugees arrived in Bangladesh in the…

Political parties and organisations, including the Buddhist community, yesterday (Friday) staged demonstrations and brought out processions in the city, protesting atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Arakan state. Speaking at the rallies, leaders demanded that the Myanmar authorities stop…

Uncertainty looms over the distribution of free textbooks to Class I Santal students in the hills for next year as the authorities are yet to take any…

The United States has said it is working through the United Nations and other international organizations to assist tens of thousands of civilians who have fled to Bangladesh since August the 25th, reports UNB. “We are also communicating with Burma’s neighbors and other concerned international…