Bangladesh looks to China for investment in power hub: official
DHAKA Jan 09 (TNS): Bangladesh is looking to China for help to build a 12-billion-U.S. dollar major power hub at Payra, 204 km south...
Bangladesh arrests social media activist
DHAKA, Dec. 26 (TNS): Bangladesh police arrested a 25-year-old social media activist as he tried to leave the country on charges that he defamed Islam...
Myanmar troops systematically gang-raped Rohingya women: UN envoy
DHAKA Nov 13 (TNS): Myanmar soldiers "systematically targeted" Rohingya women for gang-rape during violence against the minority Muslim community which triggered an exodus to...
Bangladesh’s Khaleda Zia faces sedition charges for allegedly meeting with ISI official in London
Dhaka, Nov. 1 (TNS): A pro-Awami League lawyer has accused BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia of sedition for allegedly holding a ‘secret meeting’ with Pakistani’s...
Bangladeshi man defied a government ban to marry a Rohingya
Dhaka, Oct 7 (TNS): Foyzul Islam and Hafsa Bibi fled from the Rakhine state of Myanmar to Bangladesh with over 500,000 other Rohingya, including...
UN urges Bangladesh not to move Rohingya refugees to desolate island
DHAKA Sept 26 (TNS): The United Nations has urged Bangladesh not to force Rohingya refugees to move to camps on a desolate island of Bhashan Char.
Addressing a...
Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh to restrict movement of migrants
Dhaka, Sept 17 (TNS): Bangladesh is limiting the movement of more than 400,000 Rohingya migrants who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar, Bengali media reported...
Situation in Myanmar is textbook example of ethnic cleansing: says UN rights chief
DHAKA SEP 12 (TNS): The situation in Myanmar is a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, the United Nations rights chief said Monday, as Washington...
Myanmar be tried by international crimes tribunal for worst genocide in history: Bangladesh
DHAKA Sept 11 (TNS): Myanmar is continuing its genocide of the Rohingyas ignoring international pressure, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque...
Myanmar laying landmines near border to prevent Muslims return
DHAKA Sept 6 (TNS): Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that...
