Humanitarian agencies operating in Cox’s Bazar urgently need $77 million (about Tk 628 crore) to assist Rohingyas who had to flee the ongoing atrocities of the Myanmar security forces in the country’s Rakhine State that borders Bangladesh. The $77 million requested by the new plan will allow…

Life could perhaps not have been more unbearable for Zakaria and Sanjida Begum. It has been barely two weeks since their 14-year-old eldest son succumbed to bullet and blast injuries at their home in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. They could not even give him a decent burial. Even as they fled to Bangladesh,…

The Awami League-led 14-party alliance has called upon all, including its arch rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), to help the Sheikh Hasina government overcome the Rohingya crisis. Urging the BNP not to fish in troubled waters, leaders of the ruling alliance said a united effort by all democratic…

After a short pause from Friday noon to yesterday morning, the Rohingyas again began crossing over to Bangladesh in hoardes. Visiting different border…

Camps will be set up to provide aid for displaced Muslims inside Rakhine state, state-backed media said yesterday, the first time in a 16-day crisis Myanmar's government has offered any relief for Rohingya scattered by violence, many to Bangladesh, reports AFP from Yangon. Around 270,000 Rohingya…

India has said it remains deeply concerned about the situation in Rakhine State of Myanmar and the outflow of refugees from that region, reports UNB. India had earlier strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on Myanmar security forces in Rakhine State. "The two countries have since affirmed their…