Tag: Bangladesh

Rohingya Muslim refugees forced to scramble for aid in Bangladesh

KUTUPALONG: Every day Sunabhan joins thousands of other Rohingya refugees by the roadside near her settlement in southern Bangladesh waiting for aid trucks to...

Bangladesh’s Hasina lambasts Myanmar for ‘atrocities’

The Bangladeshi premier urged Buddhist-majority Myanmar to bring the Rohingya back, while the country's parliament passed a motion on Monday night urging the UN and other countries to pressure Myanmar for their safety and citizenship.

Bangladesh plans to move reluctant Rohingya to remote island

DHAKA: Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in search of refuge could be forced to make their new homes on a...

Bangladesh hospitals overflowing with injured Rohingya

CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH: Nurses at the Bangladeshi hospital treating 16-year-old Rohingya refugee Mohammad Junaed for a bullet wound have had to tie him to his bed...

Five children drown as Rohingya boats sink off Bangladesh

Scores of people have already been killed attempting to cross the Naf border river since a fresh upsurge in violence in Rakhine on August 25, many using small fishing boats unsuited to the rough coastal waters.

Myanmar laying landmines near Bangladesh border: Bangladesh govt sources

DHAKA: Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in...

Australian team bus hit by stone in Bangladesh

SYDNEY: Cricket Australia insisted Tuesday it is comfortable with security in Bangladesh following an incident in which a window on the team bus was...

Bodies wash up as boat carrying Rohingya fleeing Myanmar capsizes

BANGLADESH: Coastguards in Bangladesh on Thursday found the bodies of 16 Rohingya, many of them children, who drowned when their boat capsized as they fled...

Suicide attacker targets Bangladesh army camp

  DHAKA: A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh’s elite security forces, wounding two others, in an apparent botched suicide...

Bangladesh’s Rahim relishes chances against Sri Lanka

Bangladesh Test captain Mushfiqur Rahim believes his team has “a good chance” of an upset victory against Sri Lanka given the island nation’s current...

Pakistan, India teams to face off in Bangladesh

  Pakistan and India are all set to face each other in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh ahead of the much-awaited clash in Champions Trophy in...

Bangladesh cricketer Arafat Sunny sent to jail

A Dhaka court has sent Bangladesh cricketer Arafat Sunny to jail declining appeals for both a fresh remand and bail on Sunday. The 30-year-old cricketer,...

Bangladesh to take crack at India in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: India will play host to Bangladesh for the first time in a bilateral match when the two square-off in a test match at...

Batting collapse limits Bangladesh to 236-9

Bangladesh suffered another dose of batting blues following a century opening stand by Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes and were restricted to 236-9 in...

Broom’s maiden ODI ton leads New Zealand to 67-run win over...

Neil Broom’s maiden century and the self-belief of Kane Williamson gave New Zealand a 67-run victory over Bangladesh to take the second one-day international...

Boult, Southee to be managed in Bangladesh series

New Zealand’s frontline seamers Trent Boult and Tim Southee will have their workloads managed through the limited-overs portion of their series against Bangladesh to...

Bangladesh says Uber ‘illegal’, days after launch

Bangladesh said Friday the Uber ride-sharing service was operating “illegally”, just days after it launched in the capital. A notice placed in a high-circulation newspaper...