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...