Bangladesh has sought Japan’s support for repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar and moving the refugees to Bhashan Char where the government has built shelters for one lakh Rohingya as parts of the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has held a phone conversation with his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen to discuss the current situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IOK).

Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts says.

The National Verification Card (NVC) scheme is part of a systematic campaign by Myanmar authorities to erase Rohingya Muslims’ identity, said a report of Fortify Rights yesterday.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has washed her hands of the Rohingya crisis, a UN rights investigator says ahead of a meeting between South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and the tarnished democracy icon.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller says Myanmar needs to take action so that Rohingyas can return to their homeland.

Plans announced by Myanmar’s military to prosecute soldiers for actions at a village where security forces reportedly killed as many as 400 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority draws skepticism from the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch.

Three persons, including two Rohingya siblings are killed and four others are injured in a road accident involving a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a pick-up van of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed all the mobile operators not to offer any mobile phone services to the Rohingya refugees and stop their services around the Rohingya camps.

Myanmar’s army says will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the United Nations says was executed with “genocidal intent”.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says 41 non-government organisations (NGOs) have been withdrawn from all kinds of activities in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps for their wrongdoings.

Bangladesh has urged the global community to be more aggressive to help thrash out a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis. “Global leadership and international organisations have to be more active to compel Myanmar to make arrangements for the Rohingya return,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir blames the government for its diplomatic failure to put an end to the Rohingya crisis saying that it has fallen into the pit set up by Myanmar.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says action will be taken against the NGOs operating in Rohingya camps if evidence is found about their activities that go beyond the terms and references.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen holds Myanmar responsible as efforts to begin repatriation of Rohingyas went in vain amid their distrust in the Myanmar government.

Pakistan's military successfully carried out a training launch of a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, at a time of heightened tension with neighbouring India over the disputed region of Kashmir, a spokesman says.

Newly-appointed Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming says China will play a "more constructive role" in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

Bangladesh will brief the diplomats stationed in Dhaka about the latest situation over the Rohingya issue tomorrow as two consecutive efforts to begin the repatriation of the displaced people failed amid their unwillingness and trust-deficit among them.

Violence in Hong Kong’s anti-government protests is becoming more serious but the government is confident it can handle the crisis itself, the embattled leader of the former British colony said yesterday.

Bangladesh needs to have deeper political engagement with Myanmar as well as allies of both the countries – China, Japan and India – for sustainable solution to Rohingya crisis, experts and diplomats say.